[.ca] Ten Dirty Pigs / Ten Clean Pigs: An Upside-Down, ... (ISBN 0735810893)

Great concept, cheap implementation:
This book has great animation and the "upside-down /turn-around" concept is a great attention-getter every time. The pigs illustrated are easy to comment on (although somewhat tough to identify once they are all... naked), and my daughter has even found names and remembers all of them (she's a 2-year old). Problem is, it is way too big for little hands (I thought it would be smaller), the pages are too thin for little hands to turn (a few paper-cuts are in order...), the ink smells bad and it is by no means a "bathtime" book, in the classic sense of being able to take it into the baby bathtub...

An Easy Charmer:
The simplicity is amazing. We've all told the tale of ten little piggies, but this is illustrated so that even the yearling toddler will understand. The concept of turning upside down, and backwards, while telling a story so easily related to is wonderful. Don't pass this one up for even the wee small fry!

A wonderful ryhme:
My children both love this book - the pictures are whimsical and the rhyme has a great cadence!! A very charming and fun book. Both kids also liked to point out the soap, ball, duck etc. that the pigs play with and learned some words from this book.

A Great Find!:
Ten Clean Pigs/Ten Dirty Pigs is a delightful, clever book - or should I say books. My three-year old is fasinated by the two-books concept. The illustrations are wonderful - the piggies bathing, dressing, posing, all the things little your little ones do. My two boys, ages 2 & 3, enjoy the book and the added benefit of introducing counting to kids. It's a fun book - a keeper.