title: What This Story Needs Is a Bang and a Clang (A Pig in a Wig Book)
author: Emma J. Virjan
description: PreS-Gr 1The pig in a wig is back in this latest installment of the early reader series featuring the porcine protagonist with a red beehive hairdo. The industrious porker is building an outdoor stage while animal musician friends gather for a performance by the Pig in a Wig Band. During rehearsal, a mouse comes along with his French horn, and there's "a startle, a jump, an EEK, and a SHRIEK!" and the band is suddenly in disarray. Pig in a Wig insists that the story must get back on track. Order is restored, and all's well that ends well, with an appreciative audience clapping for the band. Colorful illustrations with a heavy black outline and text in a large, black serif font will be accessible for young readers. Rhythm and rhyme are maintained throughout. The climax and resolution will reassure beginning readers, who will likely want an encore. VERDICT Another solid choice for early reader shelves.Ramarie Beaver, Plano Public Library System, TX
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  THE WIG, THE BITCH & THE MELTDOWN
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the
  product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to events, locales or actual persons, living or dead, is entirely
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  Copyright © 2020 by Jay Manuel All rights are reserved. No part of this book
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  First paperback edition July 2020
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-946274-43-4 (paperback)
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-946274-44-1 (ebook)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Cataloging-in Publication number: 2020935691
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Design by Aaron Favaloro and Litsa Vintzileou
  
  
  
  
  
  Book Layout by Amit Dey
  
  
  
  
  
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