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This critically acclaimed, award-winning middle grade debut follows the story of the three Green children who are cared for by a nanny pig. Yes, a pig. A fabulously sassy and impeccably dressed pig as a matter of fact! With her insatiable urge to eat chocolate (and feed chocolate to everyone she loves), her high-flying spirit, and her unending sense of fun, Nanny Piggins takes Derrick, Samantha, and Michael on a year of surprises, yummy treats, and adventures they'll never forget.
It's no surprise that Booklist proclaimed, "Mary Poppins, move over--or get shoved out of the way." Nanny Piggins is a refreshing and dynamic addition to favorite classic nannies: Amelia Bedelia, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, and, of course, Mary Poppins. Combined with award-winning artist Dan Santat's charming black-and-white illustrations, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins is set to become the next children's classic!
- Sales Rank: #37891 in Books
- Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Model: FBA-|297463
- Published on: 2012-06-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x .63" w x 5.25" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 1-6-Parents who hire Nanny Piggins should be aware that she loves trashy novels and cake, and her idea of fun is to drop things off the roof and watch them crash. Kids who like subversive humor will adore her. Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan (2013) is a sequel, with more to come. α(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Mary Poppins, move over—or get shoved out of the way. Nanny Piggins has arrived. Most recently employed at the circus as the pig shot out of a cannon, she assumes the title Nanny when she spies a Help Wanted sign on the lawn of the Green family. Mrs. Green is dead, and Mr. Green is so tightfisted he refuses to pay a human nanny. So when a pig applies . . . . But as the three Green children soon realize, Nanny Piggins is a jewel. Extraordinarily clever, she knows when to morph that quality into deviousness, which certainly becomes necessary when dealing with the dull, pompous Mr. Green. The children—Derrick, Samantha, and Michael—promptly fall in love with Nanny Piggins because she lets them eat sweets all day and comes up with the most marvelous ideas, like taking a boat to China to get Chinese takeout. Even when things don’t exactly work out as planned (and they rarely do), the high jinks and hilarity make them excellent adventures. Stuffing adjectives into this review is as easy as watching Nanny Piggins stuff pies into her mouth. This is smart, sly, funny, and marvelously illustrated with drawings that capture Nanny’s sheer pigginess. Readers may worry that this first novel is so full of stories about Nanny Piggins there won’t be enough left for sequels. Never fear. The last line of the book predicts Nanny will be stirring up more adventures, possibly even before breakfast. Grades 3-6. --Ilene Cooper
About the Author
R.A. Spratt is an award-winning comedy writer with fifteen years of experience in the television industry. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two daughters. You can visit online at www.raspratt.com.
Dan Santat is the author/illustrator of Sidekicks and the winner of the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators for Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) by Mac Barnett. He lives in Los Angeles.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Bed time stories with an adult sense of humor
By nickylee
After many long nights playing backgammon with Korean trapeze artists, Nanny Piggins, the world's most famous flying pig, responds to an ad to look after three young children - Derrick, Samantha and Michael. And from there the adventures begin.
A bit like Roald Dahl it empowers the child reader, but with a significantly lighter sense of humor.
Its got an international flavor too - a row boat to China, Boris the bear star of the Russian ballet and Korean pickles.
Its episodic and light on narrative so each chapter makes up a complete bed-time story. And there's enough wit and irony to keep a tired parent smiling throughout.
"(Mr. Green) had a job at a law firm helping rich people avoid paying taxes. He couldn't be expected to look after the children as well."
Highly recommended by me, and a former US Secretary of State. (?!)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The flying ham
By E. R. Bird
Don't judge a book by its cover, they say. To heck with that, say I. When it comes to books for kids, nine times out of ten you're going to end up judging a book on its cover no matter how much you try not to. That's because kids themselves judge books by their covers and if a jacket is dull as dishwater, I'm just as personally disinclined to avoid a boring looking book as a nine-year-old. I'm just that mature. Sometimes you'll like the cover of the book, though, and completely misinterpret what it's about. Take, for example, "The Adventures of Nanny Piggins". I look at the cover of this book and the first thing I think is, "Oh. Another nanny book, only this time the catch is that the person in charge is a magical pig." I think I was expecting a porcine "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" or "Mary Poppins". As it turns out, this first impression was more than a little off. Instead of "Nurse Matilda" what we're looking at here is a kind of hog version of "Pippi Longstocking". What happens when you put a swine in charge of your children? The pig is going to be inclined to continue to do pig versions of things. Strangely enough, with its willful disregard of conventional norms, "Nanny Piggins" is one of the most refreshing morality-free tales for kids I've read in a great long while.
Mr. Green is cheap. Pretty much as cheap as you can get, actually. Since the death/disappearance of his beloved wife (beloved to others, not particularly to him) his three children have been running rather wild. Now he needs a nanny for them, and so the job goes to the cheapest nanny he can find. Enter Nanny Piggins. She's a former circus performer (a flying pig) with absolutely zero experience raising kids. That doesn't stop her for one minute, though. Before the kids know it they're harboring escapee Russian bears, falling in with Korean shipping vessels, confronting thieves, and baking more pies than it might seem conceivable to attempt eating.
Now the temptation is to believe that with the plot I've just described that this is a story in which the children are the strong sensible individuals and the person of authority (in this case, a flying pig) is the free spirit. Not the case. Nobody is particularly sensible in this book. The kids act like kids, perfectly willing to go along with whatever insane scheme Nanny Piggins has concocted to get them out of paying full price for uniforms and the like. The father's so cheap he's almost, but not quite, a villainous parody and every other adult you meet is either insane or two-dimensional. Rather than a problem, this makes the reading all the more enjoyable. There's something to be said for relying on nobody at all to be the voice of reason.
The danger with this book would be to make Nanny Piggins so self-involved and dedicated to things like chocolate that she is no longer likable. Fortunately, Spratt does a good job at balancing Piggins' quirks with elements that make her a fun companion to read about. It helps that she has little odd personal takes on things that no one else would be able to come up with. For example, there are a fair number of food-related truisms in this book to which I myself ascribe. "To her mind cake and fruit were opposing forces. It was an insult to cake to try and combine the two. Admittedly, banana cake was not as bad as carrot cake. Grinding up vegetables and putting them in cake was, in her opinion, an act of fraud that should be punishable by imprisonment." Amen.
I always like to spot when a British children's literature import has been vetted for Briticisms. In the case of "Nanny Piggins" a lot of those Briticisms seem to have arrived on our shores intact (trousers, tradesmen, rubbish bins, etc.). The sole exception to this is probably the term "chocolate cookies" which probably went by a different name originally. I did wonder a little if the Disclaimer at the beginning of the book (informing the reader that one would do poorly to eat as Nanny Piggins and the kids do) is in both the English and the American versions of this story, or if it was just the Yanks who insisted that the author include a quickie caveat.
Here in the States the illustrations have been tackled by the illustrious Dan Santat, which was kind of an inspired choice. Santat gives Piggins the right mix of perfect fashion sense with that unique self-centeredness she tends to harbor. On top of that he manages to filter in a fair number of references to famous works of art (one by Norman Rockwell comes to mind) and movies (the poster of "The Exorcist"). The result is a series of images that match Spratt's writing in terms of its light-hearted tone. No mean feat, all things considered.
Finally, the book sports what may be the most unexpected blurb I've seen on a children's title all year. It is, in fact, so unlikely that it is immediately followed by the words, "This is real!" as if to make it clear that this wasn't some strange concoction in a creative editor's brain. The quote reads, "The Adventures of Nanny Piggins is the most exciting saga about a flying pig nanny ever told. There is a laugh on every page. I recommend it highly." So says Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State.
It's almost a relief to read a book like "Nanny Piggins". In these days of books so chock full of morals and didacticism, it feels good to encounter a book where the main character is unapologetically going against the conventional grown-up wisdom in a way kids would love. And yes, she's going to be loathed by a certain segment of the adult population. Which is fine. She wasn't written for adults. She was written for kids and in the best tradition of unapologetic authors like Roald Dahl the books are funny, fun, and wholly original. A great addition to any library or personal collection. Just don't make the mistake of judging it by its cover.
For ages 8-12.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
American Edition has been censored! Read the Aussie version
By Plusle
I read this book in its original Australian form, and enjoyed the quirky sense of humor and playful sense of rebellion against societal and children's fiction norms very much indeed. The text itself, as first published, is a four-star read; highly recommended for both kids and adults with a fine ear for the absurd. However. I absolutely, positively, cannot recommend the American edition for any reason other than, perhaps, the illustrations.
Why? Because it's been censored.
First of all, the most glaring omission of all is the removal of an ENTIRE CHAPTER from the original book. What was so offensive about "Nanny Piggins and The Sherbet Lemon That Saved the Day?" Was it the armed robber? Nanny Piggins driving Mr. Green's Rolls-Royce around despite having no idea how to drive and not even being able to reach the pedals? Who knows?
Secondly, there are more minor, but still significant, changes that seem to have been made for "moral" reasons; totally going against the anarchistic tone of the book. In the original Australian version, after Mr. Green's dinner with his coworkers they stop while on the way to a night club to frolic naked through the park. In the American version, they stop on the way to a "disco" (those still exist?) to simply wade in the duck pond. In smaller edits, for example, Mr. Green's stress is soothed with tea rather than alcohol like in the original; and Mrs. McGill's tree is cut down not because it's been dead for ten years, dangerous, and she's too mean to do it herself, but as a simple act of spite against her. Also, there's an inexplicable edit where they play Go Fish with the Korean men instead of "'Kim Says (Korean for Simon Says).'" Was the original version deemed racist? I simply don't get this edit.
To read this book as it was originally intended to be read, you simply NEED an Australian copy. If you don't mind an incomplete, somewhat sanitized version, the American version is fine; but just be aware that is IS censored.
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