When a pig named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives.

All the sensible hogfolk in Pigdom Plains know that if pigs were meant to fly, they'd have been born with wings--but there's no convincing Lily Leanchops. The daughter of renowned inventor Hercules Fatchops, Lily has watched her father's flying machines fail time and time again. Working in secret, Lily is trying to build what her father couldn't: an aircraft that actually works. Lily's secret project takes on a new sense of urgency when a mysterious...

What the pig did - in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland - is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance... utter pandemonium. Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell's pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference...

A red-coiffed pig joins her friends for a picnic lunch that is hampered by a thunderstorm.

The further adventures of Oliver Pig and his family

When Megan's father asks her to feed the pigs, he also tells her to be careful not to leave the gate open.

Mr. and Mrs. Pig's new babysitter is not what she seems, but their ten piglets prove masters of the situation.

Examines the basic characteristics, common breeds, intelligence, behavior, life cycle, and uses of pigs

Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...

Babe: A shy Yorkshire piglet is adopted by an old sheep dog and discovers that he can be anything he wants to be. Babe : pig in the city: Babe and his friends head to the city to raise money to save the farm.