Thirty-eight original limericks about all manner of pigs.

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

Emmett wants a pig very badly, but he lives in a city apartment.

Mr. and Mrs. Pig's new babysitter is not what she seems, but their ten piglets prove masters of the situation.

Pigling sets off from home and, among his adventures, helps Pig-wig escape from Mr. Piperson.

When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself--with enthusiastic...

Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...

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

All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.