A picture book about a pig who gets very hot and jumps in a pond, much to the surprise of the resident ducks and geese.
The Pig in the Pond Summary
The Pig in the Pond by Martin Waddell
One day, Neligan's pig sits by the pond watching the ducks and geese play on the cool water. The pig gets hotter and hotter; the ducks and the geese get louder and louder. Then Neligan's pig does something quite unheard of - she jumps in the pond!
The Pig in the Pond Reviews
Full of visual pantomime and affection. TES Primary Riotous... Children as young as two will love this story. Glasgow Herald
About Martin Waddell
Martin Waddell is widely regarded as one of the finest contemporary writers of books for young people and he won the prestigious Hand Christian Anderson Award in 2004. He is also a twice winner of the Smarties Book Prize - for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? - and he also won the Kurt Maschler Award for The Park in the Dark and the Best Books for Babies Award for Rosie's Babies. Among his many other titles are the novels The Haunting of Ellen; Tango's Baby; The Life and Loves of Zoe T. Curley; The Kidnapping of Suzie Q; and his trilogy about the troubles in Northern Ireland: Starry Night (Winner of the Other Award, runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and short listed for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize), Frankie's Story and The Beat of the Drum. Jill Barton left school at 16 but did not pursue her dream of becoming an illustrator because there were no courses specialising in illustration at the time. Later, when she was 44 and her children were grown, it was finally time for Jill to pursue her dream. She began by taking a foundation course which inturn became a degree in illustration. She graduated at 48. She was short listed for the Macmillan Prize for Students in 1988 and Walker Books offered her first story, Grape Zoo just before her degree show. The Pig in the Pond was highly commended for the 1993 Kate Greenaway Medal and was also short listed for the 1993 Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award. She won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in 1997 for In the Rain with Baby Duck and Rattletrap Car was highly commended for the 2002 Sheffield Children's Book Award.
Short-listed for Kate Greenaway Medal (CILIP) 1992 (UK) Short-listed for Scottish Children's Book Award 1993 (UK) Short-listed for Sheffield Children's Book Award 1993 (UK)
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