When Piggie plays her new trumpet for Gerald, the elephant decides he must be honest in his response.

Illustrations without words depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean.

When a pig named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives.

On the first day of spring Pig sets out to have a picnic by the pond, meets Goose, and so discovers a new friend.

Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.

"Mouse and Cow are making soup, but Pig keeps trying to add strange ingredients"--

Intimidated and dejected by the other animals' stories about the important gifts brought by their ancestors to the stable where Jesus was born, Pippin the pig performs an act of kindness and discovers the true meaning of Christmas giving.

Poppleton the pig celebrates spring by doing some spring "cleaning," attempting to buy a bicycle, and spending some time in a tent.

Mr. Pig, on his way to call on Miss Pig, allows his animal friends to persuade him to don various handsome portions of their own bodies, with an alarming result.

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