Pig the Tourist (Pig the Pug Series)

by Aaron Blabey, Aaron Blabey (Illustrator)

Overview

Pig the Pug is causing havoc and hilarity as he travels around the world.

Pig was a Pugand I'm sorry to say,when he went on vacationhe'd cause great dismay.Everywhere he goes around the globe, Pig the Pug offends the locals and causes destruction and devastation. However, in the end, Pig's rudeness comes back to bite him...Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's signature rhyming text and unforgettable illustrations, Pig the Tourist is a laugh-out-loud story that follows the six previous books in the series (Pig the Pug, Pig the Winner, Pig the Elf, Pig the Star, Pig the Fibber, and Pig the Stinker).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338593396
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Series:	Pig the Pug Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	67,681
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Aaron Blabey has written many well-loved, bestselling books for children. He is the creator of three hugely successful series for children — the New York Times bestselling The Bad Guys, Pig the Pug, and Thelma the Unicorn. The Bad Guys movie released in 2022. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation with Aaron serving as an executive producer on the project.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Pig the Winner:"The goggle-eyed cartoon illustrations are fun, funny, and appealingly grotesque in their exaggerated goofiness, and they are a good match for the rhyming text." — Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Pig the Pug:"Blabey's jaunty rhymes will make for some fun read-alouds." — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2019-10-23
People who live in popular spots always complain when human tourists invade, but when the visitor is an unruly dog like Pig the pug, the situation gets even worse.

The big-eyed, ill-behaved pug runs roughshod over everyone: his owner, a brown-skinned woman who remains faceless; Trevor, his owner's other dog, a big-eyed dachshund (every human and animal has large eyes in Blabey's amusing illustrations); and all the other people, animals, works of art, and architectural marvels encountered in Pig's world travels. Pig disrupts a Japanese geisha's lunch; he angers some scantily clad Caribbean carnival dancers; he breaks the head off the Sphinx in Egypt; and he disturbs the queen's tea and menaces her prize corgis, prompting the headline: "CHAOS AT THE PALACE: Queen shaken, not stirred." (Young readers will likely be unmoved by this joke.) Yes, the rhyming text is occasionally clever and the pictures are full of action, but there is nothing original in this skewed presentation of a few of the world's best-known, stereotypically presented tourist sites. Although Pig does get a well-deserved punishment for his rude behavior (piranhas attack when he least expects it), he still manages to get the last word when he stinks up first class with a very explicitly visual fart. The moral of the story? Leave Pig in the kennel when you travel.

Everyone except die-hard Pig fans may skip this installment. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews