Magic Animal Rescue 4: Maggie and the Flying Pigs

By E.D. Baker

From beloved author E. D. Baker comes the fourth book in her illustrated chapter book series featuring a spirited heroine and the magical animals and creatures she encounters.

Maggie's newest chore at her friend Bob's stable is taking care of flying pigs -- but they're not so easy to deal with! Maggie's used to putting up with a lot though, like her step-mother Zelia, who is trying to get Maggie's step-brother Peter a job at the stable. Peter working with Maggie? Yeah, right! Maybe when pigs fly . . .

This black-and-white illustrated series is perfect for fans of Princess Ponies, Magic Horses, and Critter Club.


Look for the other books in the Magic Animal Rescue series:

Maggie and the Flying Horse
Maggie and the Wish Fish
Maggie and the Unicorn

And these other magical series by E.D. Baker:

Tales of the Frog Princess
The Wide-Awake Princess
The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker
More Than a Princess

and more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Oct 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781681194905

E.D. Baker

E. D. Baker is the author of the Tales of the Frog Princess series, The Wide-Awake Princess series, The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker series, and many other delightful books for young readers, including A Question of Magic, Fairy Wings,and Fairy Lies. Her first book, The Frog Princess, was the inspiration for Disney's hit movie The Princess and the Frog. She lives with her family and their many animals in Churchville, Maryland. www.talesofedbaker.com Facebook/EDBakerAuthor

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Also by E. D. Baker

The Tales of the Frog Princess:

The Frog Princess, Dragon’s Breath, Once Upon a Curse, No Place for Magic, The Salamander Spell, The Dragon Princess, Dragon Kiss, A Prince among Frogs, The Frog Princess Returns

Fairy Wings

Fairy Lies

Tales of the Wide-Awake Princess:

The Wide-Awake Princess, Unlocking the Spell, The Bravest Princess, Princess in Disguise, Princess between Worlds, The Princess and the Pearl

A Question of Magic

The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker:

The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker, The Perfect Match, The Truest Heart, The Magical Match

Magic Animal Rescue:

Maggie and the Flying Horse, Maggie and the Wish Fish, Maggie and the Unicorn

This book is dedicated to daydreamers and kids with overactive imaginations. Let your imagination loose and you can go far!

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

About the Author

Chapter 1

Maggie laughed when one piglet tripped over another and they both tumbled across the floor. Although Maggie always enjoyed helping out in Bob’s stable, she especially loved taking care of the flying pig and her babies. Still chuckling, Maggie dumped the bucket of grain into the mother pig’s feed pan.

What’s so funny? Leonard, the talking horse, asked from the next stall.

The piglets are so cute! Maggie told him. I love the little sounds they make.

Hunh! he grunted. That’s one thing I could do without. Those ‘cute’ little sounds keep me awake half the night.

Maggie no longer thought it was unusual to have a conversation with a talking horse, but then, she was used to a lot of unusual things happening at the stable where her friend Bob the Stableman took care of rare and magical creatures. Maggie had been helping Bob with the stable chores for a few weeks now. Bob and his wife, Nora, had taken Maggie in when her stepmother, Zelia, had kicked her out of the family cottage. Maggie loved her new family and thought it was a big improvement over her stepmother and stepsiblings. She missed her father every day, though. She wondered what he would do when he came home from chopping wood on the other side of the Enchanted Forest and found

Reviews for Magic Animal Rescue 4

[abigailadams26 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Maggie returns in this fourth and final chapter-book devoted to her adventures, once again helping Bob the Stablehand care for the wounded magical creatures of the Enchanted Forest. As she cares for an injured flying pig and her little piglets, Maggie finds many things begin to go wrong. It doesn't take long to figure out that her malicious stepbrother Peter is trying to sabotage her... but why?Like its immediate predecessor, Maggie and the Unicorn, I found Maggie and the Flying Pigs moderately more engaging than the first two entries in E.D. Baker's Magic Animal Rescue series, which left me almost totally indifferent. I like the idea of these books - rescuing and caring for magical creatures sounds fantastic - but somehow this series just doesn't work for me. I'm not sorry to have read it, but I also don't highly recommend it. Perhaps Paula Harrison's The Secret Rescuers series, which seems to have a similar story idea, is better...?