Piggis Play Games

By Dave Donicci Illustrated by Andriy Yankovskyy

School holidays are a time when all children can enjoy themselves and have lots of fun. On this particular holiday children’s voices could be heard laughing, squealing and shouting throughout the whole of PiggiParadise. The sun was shining and everyone was very happy.

At PiggiPalace the children were playing in the garden. PiggiPirate was on the swing, PiggiPatch was cleaning his cricket bat and PiggiPanda was helping his mummy to weed the garden.

PiggiPink was reading a book, PiggiPeaches was admiring herself in her mirror as usual, and occasionally combed her hair, and PiggiPlump was trying to decide whether she should have another biscuit from her little red bag.

But things just weren’t lively enough for PiggiPirate. ‘Let’s play team games,’ he said, ‘boys against the girls.’ ‘That wouldn’t be fair,’ said PiggiPeaches, ‘because the boys always win.’

PiggiPatch thought that the boys could beat the girls at almost any outdoor game and suggested they played cricket. The girls thought this would be quite unfair because they knew how good PiggiPatch was at his favourite game.

‘No,’ said PiggiPlump, ‘we don’t want to play cricket but we will play you at football.’ The boys agreed, as they thought they would win quite easily. They put a goal at each end of the garden and placed the ball in the middle of the pitch. PiggiPanda was the goalkeeper for the boys’ team and PiggiPlump was in goal for the girls.

They started to play the football game.They played very well, the two teams, but boys had more experience. Although the boys had lots of shots at goal they just could not get the ball past PiggiPlump who managed to get her body in the way every time. -She was the perfect goalkeeper!. When PiggiPrincess blew the whistle for the end of the game the score was Boys: 0, Girls: 0, a draw.

After they had rested for a while PiggiPirate thought they might have a ‘Tug of War’ contest. He had found a long piece of rope in PiggiPete’s garage and told PiggiPanda to tie one end around his waist. PiggiPlump did the same at the other end of the rope and the other four piggis took up their positions along the rope. When PiggiPrincess blew the whistle they all started to pull as hard as they could. The boys pulled and pulled but found they could make no progress. With PiggiPlump at the other end of the rope all their efforts were in vain.

PiggiPlump then told her team to pull even harder and asked PiggiPeaches if she would mind putting her comb and mirror down for just a moment. Soon the girls were able to pull the boys towards them, especially with PiggiPlump now leaning backwards and puffing her cheeks out with her effort. The girls were the winners and how pleased they were. ‘Three cheers for the girls,’ shouted PiggiPanda. PiggiPink was more delighted than anyone that her team had won. ‘I don’t think I have ever won a game before,’ she exclaimed. PiggiPrincess reminded them that it wasn’t always the boys who won at outdoor games

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