{My thoughts} – I have not read any of the previous books in this series before. I am thankful that I read through books before I share them with my children. This book is a funny book about a dog that just refuses to get a bath. He is messy and dirty and makes a mess out of things.

The cover has Pig the Pug on it wearing a shower cap. It’s nicely colored and about what you’d imagine of a dog getting ready for a bath. The words within the pages go nicely with the illustrations. However, I am not a fan of some of the words used. “You stinky old nmutt!” I realize these are probably words used in most households, but I am not okay with them in a children’s book. I don’t like things that portray negativity. I don’t want my girls to talk like that about a person, let alone an animal. Other then that it’s a pretty nice book. If you have similar feelings about words such as those, you may want to change the words around a little like I did. “You are one silly mutt!” is what I read it as as opposed to what was written.

This is a fun book and I am sure many children will fall in love with it. I see it being a bonus fall in love with book if they are fans of dogs. I think it could make a nice addition to any child’s home library. ( )

Kids love Pig the Pug. I personally am on the fence. He's such a turd. So I'm not really a fan. But the books generate laughs from the storytime kids. ( )

Pig is a pug that always smelled horrible. He loved being covered and dirt and the smell of him didn’t bother him one bit. He finally got washed up after the bathtub had exploded when he tried to plug it up. ( )

I love the Pig the pug books. They are just fun. And this book is so true to life. Well, except my dad’s pug likes to get baths. However, all my other dogs act exactly like Pig, so i get it. The rhymes and and cadence are spot on, the story funny, and the illustrations on point. A story to make anyone laugh that should be on all our shelves. ( )

Pig the Pug, the worst-behaved canine in the world, returns in this sixth picture-book devoted to his (mis)adventures. Having demonstrated his general nastiness, dishonesty, hyper-competitiveness, greed, and vanity in the previous installments of the series, here he displays a total disregard for good hygiene. In short, he stinks, and his family's efforts to bathe him produce the usual naughty hi-jinks and eventual disaster for our puggish anti-hero...

Like its predecessors, Pig the Stinker pairs an entertaining tale of a very bad dog with bright, colorful artwork that accentuates the sense of humor to be found in the story. The rhyming text and rhythmic structure here - "Pig liked to get dirty. / He frankly was RANK. / His paws could be frightful. / His fur often stank" - makes this one an excellent read-aloud selection for story-time. Pig is no model of good behavior, but then, that is rather the point. Recommended to fans of this putrid pup and his adventures, and to anyone looking for children's stories with a sharp and mischievous sense of humor. ( )