Akron Public Library

Louisa Brannigan is a a Washington D.C. press secretary whose annoying neighbor gets her involved in the case of a missing pig. Little does she know that the quest for this MIA swine might just lead to unexpected romance.

Because the farmer's wife insists on cleaning his mud puddle, a little pig runs away to the city where he becomes permanently stuck in what he thought was a mud puddle.

What the pig did - in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland - is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance... utter pandemonium. Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell's pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference...

Of The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven, the third and climactic entry in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly boisterous Pig Trilogy, one might well repeat the most famous words of the great non-Irish wordsmith and baseball catcher Yogi Berra, "It ain't over till it's over." Kitty McCloud, the trilogy's leading lady, would let these words stand, even were she a reviser of aphorisms rather than a "fixer" of great literary works by the likes of Bronte, Hardy, and Eliot...

Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.

Farmer Tubbs' amazing pig, Ace of Clubs, eventually winds up on television for his cleverness.

Poppy's big dreams lead her to Paris for the world games ice skating championship. Nervous but ever courageous and supported by her family she embarks upon the adventure head-on. Poppy meets a snowboarding panda, a Maltese who skies, and two fellow skaters, a crane and a Kangaroo. She begins to realize that although these animals look different, act different, and are from different places, they are all the same at heart

When Wendell doesn't clean up his room, a whole herd of pigs comes to live with him.

By admiring her finer points and showing that she can take care of herself and have fun even when there's no one else around, a charming pig proves the best friend you can have is yourself.

On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers.