When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself--with enthusiastic...

Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.

Stella Endicott is thrilled when her class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses, Can anyting turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around?

In two Mercy Watson tales, Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy, and Mercy dons her beautiful pink gown and sparkling tiara for a night of trick-or-treating.

Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.

Mercy Watson to the rescue: After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor. Mercy Watson goes for a ride: Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.

The wolf gives his own version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.