Pig the slob

Title:

Pig the slob

Author:

Summary:

Pig was a Pug, and I'm sorry to say, he was shockingly lazy. Such a shameful display... Pig, the world's greediest pug, is back -- and he won't get off the couch! Pig spends all day, every day lounging around, binging snacks and TV. Trevor tries to convince him to come out and play, but Pig won't budge! Until one day, something happens to get Pig up off the couch once and for all... Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's signature rhyming text and unforgettable illustrations, Pig the Slob is a laugh-out-loud story that follows the seven previous books in the series. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 3-5. Scholastic Press.

Grades K-1. Scholastic Press.

General Note:

In title: The word "pug" is covered up with icing and sprinkles spelling out "slob."

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Humorous fiction.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.

Pug -- Juvenile fiction.

Dachshunds -- Juvenile fiction.

Laziness -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Publication Date:

2020

ISBN:

9781338713718

9781443182829

9781338730227

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic Press, [2020]

Call Number:

P BLABEY

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003538017	New Picture Books	BLABEY	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

An all-new Pig the Pug picture book from internationally bestselling author-illustrator Aaron Blabey. Pug was a Pug, and I'm sorry to say, he was shockingly lazy. Such a shameful display... Pig, the world's greediest pug, is back -- and he won't get off the couch! Pig spends all day, every day lounging around, binging snacks and TV. Trevor tries to convince him to come out and play, but Pig won't budge! Until one day, something happens to get Pig up off the couch once and for all...Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's signature rhyming text and unforgettable illustrations, Pig the Slob is a laugh-out-loud story that follows the seven previous books in the series ( Pig the Pug , Pig the Winner , Pig the Elf , Pig the Star , Pig the Fibber , Pig the Stinker , and Pig the Tourist ).

Author Notes

Aaron Blabey was born in 1974 in Australia. He is an author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug. His other bestsellers include I Need a Hug. Pig the Elf. Don't Call Me Bear, Thelma the Unicorn, and Pig the Star.

He is well known in the field of acting for his roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.

In 2012, he was the National Literacy Ambassador and in May 2015 his book The Brother's Quibble was read by an estimated 500,000 children during the National Simultaneous Storytime. His book The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon won the Patricia Wrightson Award from the 2013 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the 2013 Children's Peace Literature Award and was recorded by Nick Cave for the Story Box Library. His 2015 book Pig the Pug won the Young Australian's Best Book Award 2015 in the Picture storybook category and the 2015 Kids Own Australian Literature Award New South Wales' in the Picture Storybook category.The Bad Guys, Episode 1 won the 2016 Indie Book Awards Best Children's book, the 2016 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Award for Fiction for younger readers, and the 2016 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) for Fiction for younger readers. Pig the Fibber won the 2016 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards for Picture storybooks and the 2016 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) for Picture Books.

(Bowker Author Biography)