Batpig: Too Pig to Fail

by Rob Harrell, Rob Harrell (Illustrator)

Overview

In this hilarious, hijinks-filled graphic novel super-swine Batpig is ready to face even bigger bullies, harder fights, and scariest of all—meeting his superhero idol.

Ordinary pig, Gary Yorkshire, has his entire life turned upside down when a bite on the nose from a radioactive bat turns him into . . . BATPIG. With the support of his best friends, Brooklyn the bat and Carl the fish, he finally feels like he’s getting a handle on this whole superhero business. That is, until he faces a battle against time itself, when an underappreciated janitor slows down the clock so much that a math class never ever ends (the horror!). Can Batpig save the class from never-ending fractions?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593354209
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Series:	A Batpig Book , #2
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	GN240L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Rob Harrell is the author/illustrator of Wink and the Batpig series, created the Life of Zarf series, the graphic novel Monster on the Hill, and also writes and draws the long-running daily comic strip Adam@Home, which appears in more than 140 papers worldwide. He created and drew the internationally syndicated comic strip Big Top until 2007. He lives with his pup in Indiana.

Editorial Reviews

An ALA 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List Selection

"No sophomore slump here: Harrell’s newest offering blends snicker-suffused action with a gentle emphasis on the importance of friendship. More hilarious, high-energy, hammed-up hijinks." —Kirkus

From the Publisher

2022-04-13
Holy sequel, Batpig!

In this thoroughly enjoyable graphic follow-up to Batpig: When Pigs Fly (2021), Gary the pig and his alter ego, Batpig, return for more goofy adventures. Harrell’s tale is broken into three vignettes consisting of two longer chapters and a shorter interstitial section. In “The Class That Wouldn’t End!” Gary and his best friends, Brooklyn (a bat) and Carl (a fish), head to math class, and it seems like time is barely passing. They’re caught in a collective haze of boredom—even Brooklyn, who loves math, notices it. The trio soon discovers that time is slowly inching along thanks to the evil, vengeful Time Guy (the name Timekeeper was already taken). Batpig must now figure out how to make time fly if they ever want to escape the monotony of endless fractions. The briefer middle story, “Aquarium Dreams,” stars Brooklyn and Carl and sets the stage for the final tale, “Lights, Camera, Chaos!” This closing story is a comedic delight, with a pompous Hollywood superhero, meddling pastel aliens, a giant kitten/bee chimera (adorably monikered the Bumblekitten), and a deluge of stinky gym socks. No sophomore slump here: Harrell’s newest offering blends snicker-suffused action with a gentle emphasis on the importance of friendship. In Gary’s world, animals and humans coexist; humans (both young and old) are depicted with a range of skin tones.

More hilarious, high-energy, hammed-up hijinks. (Graphic fiction. 7-12)

Kirkus Reviews