Pigs Ahoy! |  | Author: David McPhail
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,563,521
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0525453342
EAN: 9780525453345
ASIN: 0525453342
Publication Date: October 1, 1995
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Product Description
The impertinent pigs of Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! stow away on an ocean liner and wreak havoc all over the ship, as they paint stripes on the boiler room pipes and ruin a formal dinner.
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 Tales of Brave uPiggysees February 14, 2005
M. Allen Greenbaum (California)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Homer's got nothing on these seafaring swine, and I say that with all affection. David McPhail tells a tale of mythic proportion in another one of his popular pig books. Creative rhymes, chaotic scenes, and bright, imaginative illustrations make this one wild and rebellious adventure. Here, a young yuppie-type leaves for an ocean excursion, his blonde hair slicked back, and a tropical shirt covering his pale skin. He holds two suitcases, one of which has a "ROAM" travel decal.
But our would-be anti hero (he wears a shirt proclaiming "Just Don't Do It") is no match for the real Wild Bunch, a sty-full of pigs who have taken over his stateroom (so crowded it resembles that of the Marx Brothers), and seemingly every activity on every deck of the giant liner:
"After breakfast I recline
Until aerobics class at nine.
The pigs prefer to exercise
While eating burgers, shakes, and fries."
They take over the swimming pool and "race their pudgy motorboats," they enter the boiler room ("where pigs are not supposed to go") and paint stripes on the pipes. FOr some reason, they're invited to the Captain's table. The pigs, inappropriately dressed to the nines (wearing Victorian clothes, loud checkered coats, patched shirts, gaudy jewelry), and they even make our hero look like a respectable decked-out suited hippie. Things predictably--and hilariously--go berserk:
"The table's soon piled high with food.
(The Captain's in an angry mood.)
A piggy swings a baseball bat.
And knocks a meatball towards his hat."
The vividly colored, riotous frolicking continues to the delight of the pigs and the consternation of the humans, until the latter throw the former into lifeboats. As they row towards shore, the porcine ones call out cheekily: "Hey, Captain, let's do lunch!"
All is calm on board without the snouted ones. Maybe too calm. Our thirty-something hero realizes that he didn't need just an escape, he needed the messy, antisocial, glorious fun that only pigs can provide. His eventual reunion with this motley crew is a happily disorganized one.
Giggles Galore December 30, 2009
Viqanik (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 3-yr old LOVES this book, and so do the adults who read it to her! It's fun, silly, and gives free reign to our imaginations!
Great fun to read and look at July 26, 2000
Christopher Weaver (Wayne, NJ)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
When you're a parent and you read 3 or 4 books before bedtime, finding books which are fun to read is a priority (especially when you read the same book over and over again.) This is one that my son and I both enjoy--about a man who goes on a cruise and finds that he's sharing his cabin with a group of mischievous and misbehaving pigs. Though they get in everyone's way, he comes to love them. Great fun to read (it's written in verse) and fun illustrations as well.
funny book! January 18, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My 4 year old daughter loves this book and wants me to read it over and over. Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore is also another favorite
 Does not make much sense for a 4 - 6 year old August 19, 2009
GG Sophia (Dallas, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Looking from a 1st grader's point of view, I can't think of anything they can take from this book.
The book is a collection of a group of pigs making one mischief after another. There are other fun to read books that one can pick, but this one seemed a total waste. I think the kids are too young to derive symbolism from this book that a guy wants to escape his busy life with senseless chaotic fun. That sometimes chaos and noise can be relaxing and fun.
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