Campus Elementary: "Pigsty" by Mark Teague

This week I chose to read Pigsty, written and illustrated by Mark Teague, during library time. This is a fun story about a boy named Wendell Fultz whose mother tells him his room is becoming a 'pigsty', and as it turns out, this is quite literally true. Elementary age kids enjoy seeing the antics of Wendell and his unexpected roommates, and the book is a great lesson in why you should keep your personal space clean and tidy (at least most of the time).

While reading this book to young children, you can ask them questions to get them thinking about other ways that being messy could cause problems, besides having actual pigs show up to hog your blankets and wreck your prized possessions!

If you have a young reader who is always leaving a mess behind, Pigsty is a great selection to get them laughing and looking for the nearest broom to start cleaning up.

- Dennis De Boer