{"id":174,"date":"2008-08-01T00:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/review-of-mercy-watson-thinks-like-a-pig-by-kate-dicamillo\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T16:12:09","slug":"review-of-mercy-watson-thinks-like-a-pig-by-kate-dicamillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Review of Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig, by Kate DiCamillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image226\" height=\"239\" alt=\"mercy_watson_thinks_like_a_pig.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mercy_watson_thinks_like_a_pig.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Kate DiCamillo<\/p>\n<p>illustrated by Chris Van Dusen<\/p>\n<p>Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008.\u00a0 74 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another book perfect for a beginning reader who&#8217;s ready for chapters.\u00a0 <em>Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig <\/em>has 15 very short chapters.\u00a0 The pages are loaded with colorful, hilarious illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Watson is a pig, a porcine wonder.\u00a0 She is treated like a person by Mr. and Mrs. Watson, but sometimes she indeed acts like a pig.\u00a0 For example, when she smells the flowers her next door neighbors have planted, she can&#8217;t resist eating them.\u00a0 This prompts Eugenia Lincoln to call Animal Control Officer Francine Poulet, who has never dealt with a pig before.<\/p>\n<p>In the hilarious chain of events that ensues, you can be sure that Mr. and Mrs. Watson retain their shining faith in their sweet Mercy, and that there\u00a0is plenty of buttered toast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0763632651\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/mercy_watson_thinks_like_a_pig.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/mercy_watson_thinks_like_a_pig.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kate DiCamillo illustrated by Chris Van Dusen Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008.\u00a0 74 pages. Here&#8217;s another book perfect for a beginning reader who&#8217;s ready for chapters.\u00a0 Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig has 15 very short chapters.\u00a0 The pages are loaded with colorful, hilarious illustrations. Mercy Watson is a pig, a porcine wonder.\u00a0 She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginning-chapter-books","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-humorous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}