Customer Reviews

All Pigs Are Beautiful (Read and Wonder)

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What a great teaching tool for any educator! Dick King-Smith does a wonderful job of combining facts about pigs with their "personality", wrapping it all into one enjoyable reading experience. I can't wait to share it with the students at our school.

I must admit -- I love pigs. This book is great at showing how and why pigs are so great. Here's to more pig appreciation!

This book is hillariously true! A great book for all pig lovers and all children.

The "Read and Wonder" series, as a whole, is great! This is one of our favorites, however. The story is told from the perspective of someone who truly loves pigs, and will educate your child (and you) about these delightful creatures and some of their human-like traits. The illustrations are also well-done.

These books are always a good value.

This book is great for a number of classroom activities! My class really enjoyed the nonfiction portion of learning about pigs, but then I gave them a chance to write about something that is beautiful to them!

I bought this for my toddler son despite the one negative review. We have six of the books in the Read, Listen and Wonder series and we love them. So, I thought the critique was probably too harsh and assumed the "stupid" reference would be OK in context, even if not the best choice of words. After reading the book, though, I have to agree that it's disappointing and not appropriate for young readers. I don't like the reference to a stupid person, but I dislike even more the statement that "People can be good-looking or just ordinary-looking or plain ugly." I wouldn't tolerate my son calling someone ugly and don't want him reading it in a children's book. Sorry to say that Candlewick Press let me down on this one and I've put the book out of sight. I can't say enough good things about Emperor's Egg, though!

It really disappointed me to find the word "stupid" in the book. I am aware most of us use that kind of language once in a while but at least I don't expect to find this kind of vocabulary in a book for kids. I believe the word "silly" could have been used instead. This is the second time I find this word in a book for kids. Good luck for me they were library books and I just returned them. The other one was "The Dinosaurs are Back and It's All Your Fault Edward!" by Wendy Hartmann (Author) and Niki Daly (Illustrator).