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Mercy Watson Fights Crime

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Mercy Watson is a "porcine wonder." She's a pig who lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson. She has her own bed in her own room and loves buttered toast.

Mercy wakes up one night to the sound of the beloved toaster being dragged across the kitchen counter. Certain this means a serving of heavily buttered toast, Mercy goes downstairs to get her share. Only it's not Mrs. Watson in the kitchen--it's a robber stealing the toaster!

Leroy Ninker is a thief who likes to dress as a cowboy. When Mercy Watson finds him raiding her family's kitchen, he ends up learning a few important lessons--which include not eating butter-flavored candy near a pig who loves buttered toast.

MERCY WATSON FIGHTS CRIME is the third installment in the Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo. The first two titles in this series were somewhat disappointing, but this book is a marked improvement. Children will enjoy how Mercy's obsession with buttery toast leads her to stop a crime in progress. Rather than being scary, this criminal is cute unto himself, and entirely redeemable.

As always, the illustrations are first-rate fun. Mercy's future looks a great deal better after this installment. This "porcine wonder" just might come into her own!

Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
11/20/2006

4½-BALLOONS for WUAT Kids; 5-Stars for Amazon

We absolutely adore the Mercy Watson series at our house. After throroughly enjoying the first two books in the series, we were eager to read this newest installment, Mercy Watson Fights Crime. Unfortunately, this book really scared my kids! The same ridiculous characters are all here and the tone is light, but the plot revolves around Mercy's reaction to and capture of a robber who has broken into the Watson house to steal (among other things) Mercy's beloved toaster. The concept of someone - a stranger, a robber, a bad guy - sneaking into our house in the middle of the night had never occured to my kids, and we had lots of questions and nervousness that night when we went to bed. What if someone like Leroy Ninker comes in our house tonight? Will he take my toys? What if I go downstairs and find him? Is the door locked? How did he get in? And on and on. So, while we wholeheartedly recommend the Mercy Watson series, I'm not sure this title is a great choice for kids on the younger end of the recommended age range of 4 through 8.

Kate DiCamillo's MERCY WATSON FIGHTS CRIME provides the third pig tale in the series. Here Mercy hears a noise and discovers a thief is robbing the Watsons - a cowboy thief whose 'yippie-I-oh' can both lull a sleep to pig and wake up a sleeping household. Color drawings by Chis Van Dusen add fun and hilarious adventure to the tale.

My 7 year of old son loves this series. Looking forward to more of them.

Kate DiCamillo does it again with Mercy Watson fights crime. My five-year old loves these books and I love them too (my 9 year old neice loves them too). The illustrations are retro and really cool. The style of writing is something out of Leave it to Beaver - corny and cute all at once. Makes me want to make "some toast with a good deal of butter on it!"

My kids LOVE all of Kate Dicamillo's books. My youngest children really love Mercy Watson so when I saw this book was available I had to buy it. Easy to follow, fun story, nice illustrations, another hit by Kate Dicamillo.

Thanks for putting out such wonderful work Kate!

As a librarian, I read to kids all day. They LOVE the Mercy Watson books. In this one, they got a kick out of the "Yippee-ay-ooo" througout the story.

I bought this book on a recommendation of a parenting magazine. Quality short chapter book, and my 5-year-old son loves it.

Bought this book for a private school library. The first graders love the entire series and their teacher says the words are easy enough for them to read by themselves.

It's fuuny how mercy fights crime.I like it.She loves hot buttered toast.Mercy watson a very good nice pig.She's a fat pig.