Below is the complete list of Aaron Blabey’s Pig the Pug books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Pig the Pug Books
About Pig the Pug
Aaron Blabey’s Pig the Pug series is a collection of humorous picture books about an enormously expressive pug whose selfishness, greed, dishonesty, bad manners, and competitive streak repeatedly land him in trouble. Beginning with Pig the Pug in 2014, the series pairs Pig with Trevor, a patient and good-natured dachshund who usually suffers the consequences of Pig’s behavior before Pig receives a spectacular comeuppance of his own. Written largely in rhyme and driven by Blabey’s exaggerated illustrations, the books turn everyday lessons about behavior into energetic physical comedy.
The original Pig the Pug establishes the relationship immediately. Pig possesses an impressive collection of toys but refuses to share any of them with Trevor. When Trevor suggests that sharing might be more fun, Pig reacts with characteristic outrage. His determination to keep everything for himself ultimately produces exactly the kind of disastrous result that becomes a hallmark of the series.
Pig is deliberately not an exemplary children’s-book hero. He is vain, possessive, rude, and remarkably resistant to self-improvement. Even when one adventure appears to have taught him an important lesson, the next book can find him enthusiastically embracing another terrible habit. That refusal to become permanently well behaved is crucial to the series’ comedy.
Trevor provides the necessary contrast. Where Pig is loud and impulsive, Trevor is generally calm and tolerant. He shares, waits, observes, and frequently attempts to encourage Pig toward better behavior. Trevor is not merely there to deliver moral lessons, however. His reactions—often conveyed visually rather than through lengthy dialogue—allow readers to recognize how unreasonable Pig is long before Pig reaches the same conclusion.
Subsequent books build individual stories around particular flaws. Pig the Fibber focuses on dishonesty as Pig tells lies and attempts to shift blame onto Trevor. Pig the Winner explores his obsessive competitiveness and inability to accept losing. Pig the Elf places his greed within a Christmas setting, where his expectations of Santa Claus predictably become excessive.
Other installments tackle similarly recognizable behavior. In Pig the Star, Pig craves attention and dislikes sharing the spotlight. Pig the Tourist takes his bad manners away from home, demonstrating that a change of scenery does little to improve his personality. Pig the Slob embraces laziness, while Pig the Monster brings his particular brand of chaos to Halloween.
Blabey also uses situations familiar to children and families as foundations for later stories. Pig the Rebel gives Pig another opportunity to disregard rules, while Pig the Pug Gets a New Pet complicates the established household dynamic when another animal enters the picture. Across the series, the specific problem changes, but Pig’s enormous confidence in his own behavior remains remarkably consistent.
The books work particularly well as read-aloud stories. Blabey’s rhyming text establishes a strong rhythm, while short sentences and carefully timed page turns prepare readers for visual punch lines. His illustrations exaggerate Pig’s eyes, teeth, body language, and expressions until even a simple moment of jealousy can become dramatically absurd.
Physical comedy is important to the formula. Pig’s punishment for behaving badly is rarely a quiet conversation about making better choices. His schemes tend to produce falls, crashes, embarrassing failures, or other exaggerated consequences. The results make the underlying lesson clear without requiring the narrator to become overly instructional.
This approach gives the books an unusual balance between moral storytelling and gleeful misbehavior. Children can recognize that sharing, honesty, kindness, and good manners are preferable while still enjoying Pig precisely because he does the opposite. Trevor demonstrates the better alternative, but Pig supplies most of the entertainment.
The illustrations also carry substantial narrative information. Pig’s expressions often reveal selfish intentions before the text explicitly states them, while Trevor’s reactions invite readers into the joke. Blabey therefore uses words and pictures together rather than treating the artwork as decoration for a story that could function identically without it.
Publication order provides the natural progression through the Pig the Pug books, although the series does not depend on a complicated continuous storyline. Most installments can be enjoyed independently because each focuses on a particular episode and behavior. Reading from the beginning nevertheless establishes Pig and Trevor’s contrasting personalities and makes recurring jokes about Pig’s supposedly learned lessons more effective.
The durability of the series comes from Pig himself. He is a terrible role model but an excellent comic character: outrageously selfish, instantly recognizable, and always convinced that this time his latest bad idea is perfectly reasonable. Trevor may represent how one ought to behave, but Pig demonstrates, with impressive consistency, why learning that lesson can be much more entertaining the hard way.