Pants On Fire! Pig The Fibber by Aaron Blabey

PIG WAS A PUG,
AND I'M SORRY TO SAY.

HE'D OFTEN TELL LIES
TO GET HIS OWN WAY.

Pig is a pug who wants it all, and he'll say anything to get it. Fibs roll off his tongue like water off a duck's back. And when faced with the truth, he'll always deny it.

HE WAS AWFULLY CLEVER.

WHEN PIG GOT IN TROUBLE,
HE'D ALWAYS BLAME TREVOR.

Pig's co-pet Trevor the dachshund is too timid to cross the burly Pig and mostly tries to make himself scarce when Pig misbehaves. But somehow Pig often manages to make Trevor the fall guy. Pig chews up a bridal gown right out of its box, and once more the blame goes to poor little Trevor.

But then Pug spots a big bag of dog treats hidden carefully on a high shelf, and immediately begins to plan his next caper. He's got to get the house to himself for a while to carry out this maneuver, and the means, it seems, is right there!

AND WITH THAT HE LET OUT A RIP.
IT WAS STINKY AND GRIM.

THEN HE POINTED TO TREVOR
AND SAID "IT WAS HIM!"

Trevor is quickly leashed and led hastily out for a good "airing," and Pig goes into his plan of action, visions of gobbled treats dancing in his head. He pulls up a chair and jiggles the treat bag toward the edge of the shelf. But there's something on top of the treats that Pig can't quite see--a big, heavy, pink bowling ball!

BONK! CLONK!

The punishment fits the crime, and Pig appears to be a reformed former fibber, in the just published American edition of Aaron Blabey's Pig the Pug Fibber (Pig the Pug) (Scholastic, 2018), joining the other popular titles in this slapstick series. Pig is prone to relapse in his progress toward being a good co-pet, and we can only hope there are more Pig the Pug stories ahead by Aussie author-illustrator Aaron Blabey. With their hilariously portrayed comic characters and rhythmic rhyming couplets, these stories are great for reading aloud or for newly independent readers. For other books in this series, see my reviews here.