
Doctor Pig
By Emily Gale
2008
First Published
3.44
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages
Finley Pig is happy rolling around in the mud, but when Agatha Chicken calls him lazy, he decides to get a job and become Doctor Pig! This charming story with colorful illustrations of children's favorite farm animals is ideal for beginning readers. Designed for children ages 3-8, this book makes a great gift and is fun for the whole family to read along with at storytime.
Avg Rating
3.44
Number of Ratings
34
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
24%
3 STARS
47%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
3%
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Author

Emily Gale
Author · 12 books
Emily Gale has worked in the children’s & YA book industry for over twenty years. In London she worked as an editor for Penguin and Egmont, and later as a freelance manuscript consultant and pre-school book writer. In Melbourne she worked with the late literary agent Sheila Drummond, finding new children’s and YA authors; she has reviewed for Bookseller and Publisher, spent several happy years at independent bookshop Readings as a children’s buyer, during which time she was instrumental in establishing the Readings Children’s Book Prize, and worked in two school libraries. Emily’s writing includes novels for teenagers like Girl, Aloud, Steal My Sunshine, and I Am Out With Lanterns, as well as books for 10+ including The Other Side of Summer, Elsewhere Girls, and The Goodbye Year. Her junior fiction character is Eliza Boom, which is published all around the world.