Cover

Title Page

Copyright

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Text copyright © 2012 by Rodrigo Folgueira
Cover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2012 by Poly Bernatene

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in slightly different form in Great Britain by Meadowside Children’s Books, London, in 2012.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon
are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congres Cataloging-in-Publication Data
is available upon request.
ISBN 978-0-307-98146-2 (trade)
ISBN 978-0-307-98147-9 (lib. bdg.)
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-98150-9
First American Edition

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Dedication

This book is
dedicated to friendship,
especially ours.
—Rodrigo and Poly

First Page

Once upon a time,

there was a pond that was home to a family of frogs.

It was their pond, and they were very happy living there.

But one morning, they discovered a surprise visitor . . . .

It was a pig —

a little pink pig — sitting on a rock.

“Goodness!” said the frogs.

“Why is there a pig in our pond?”

They whispered amongst themselves, until finally the chief frog spoke up:

“Ahem. Good morning. What can we do for you?”

And, to their amazement, the little pig answered . . .

“Ribbit!”

“WHAT did he say?” cried the frogs.

“This pig is confused!”

“Does he think he’s a frog?”

“Is he making fun of us?”

But again, all the little pig said was . . .

News of the little pig who thought he was a frog spread fast, and all the animals hurried to the pond to see the visitor. . . .

“This new relative of yours is a little pink!” said the raccoon.

“He’s no relation of ours!” declared the frogs.

“He certainly sounds like a frog  . . .” said the weasel.

“Why would a pig want to be a frog?” said the parrot.

“And what’s wrong with being a frog, may we ask?” exclaimed the frogs.

Everyone started shouting at each other,

completely ignoring the little pig . . .

who just sat there, practicing his

“Ribbit!”

The animals laughed and laughed—

and the frogs got angrier and angrier—

until, finally, the chief frog shouted out . . .

“We’re not getting anywhere by fighting! We must go and find the wise old beetle. He’ll know what to do.”

“The wise old beetle?”

gasped all the animals.

“But he hates to be disturbed!”

“I know,” said the chief frog.

“But this is very serious.”

“That’s true,” the animals agreed.

And off they went.

And the little pig said . . .

The animals found the wise old beetle and tried to explain the problem.

It was hard for him to understand, because they were all talking at once. In the end, he agreed to go with them to the pond.

But when they arrived . . .

“Where did the pig go?” the animals cried.

“Who was he?”

“What did he want?”

“Maybe,” said the wise old beetle,

“He just wanted to make new friends.”

And off he went.

“Oh dear!” said the animals.

They hadn’t thought of that!

And sure enough, sitting on a branch, high up in a tree nearby, was the little pig.

He was surrounded by new friends.

Rodrigo Folgueira
studied art at the Buenos Aires National School of Fine Art and works as an author and illustrator, investing his children’s books with a great deal of humor and wit. He lives and works in Argentina.

Poly Bernatene
graduated from Buenos Aires Art School and has worked across many different genres including advertising, animation and comic books. He is a prolific and successful children’s illustrator, who has published more than sixty books all over the world. Poly lives and works in Argentina.

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