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    The Big Pig Stampede
    The Big Pig Stampede
    The Big Pig Stampede
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    The Big Pig Stampede

    By Bob Hartman

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    Goat Boy, a.k.a. Gideon, is the kid everyone loves to pick on. He’s like any typical Bible-time boy who spends his life traveling around Palestine milking goats, giving Roman soldiers a hard time, and getting into trouble on more than one occasion. Goat Boy is curious, enjoys a good adventure, and has a couple of mildly irritating friends. What’s not so typical is how he and his friends are in the right place at the right time to witness the amazing miracles and teachings of Jesus.

    Witty, insightful, wacky. These are just a few words to describe Bob Hartman’s latest chapter-book series, Goat Boy Chronicles. In this unique collection of stories, Goat Boy and his friends experience the miracles of Jesus through their awkward adolescent eyes. The boys laugh, they make jokes, they observe, they puzzle over everything that Jesus does, and in their own quirky ways they become the eyes and ears of the reader as they witness the unfolding of the gospel story.

    Bob Hartman’s passion is to retell Bible stories accurately and in a way that will help kids want to read them time and time again. Not just because the stories are “good for them” but because they are so creative, so clever, and so enthralling that they just can’t help themselves!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781496409775
    The Big Pig Stampede
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    Bob Hartman

    Bob Hartman is a professional storyteller and award-winning children’s author of over seventy books. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but now lives in Wiltshire. He has been entertaining audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for over 30years with his books and performances, which bring together retellings of Bible stories and traditional tales from around the world with his own imaginative stories. His books are full of humour and insight, whilst his storytelling sessions are exciting, engaging, dynamic – and above all, interactive! The Lion Storyteller Bible is used in schools across the United Kingdom as part of a Bible project called Open the Book, and is regularly performed for over 800,000 children in more than 3,000 primary schools. He is well known for his hugely popular The Lion Storyteller collection, the Telling the Bible series, and the highly acclaimed picture books: The Wolf Who Cried Boy, Dinner in the Lions’ Den and The Three Billy Goats’ Stuff.  

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      The Big Pig Stampede - Bob Hartman

      Chapter One: Where Me and Bug Make a Deal. Sort Of.

      My brother was the first one to call me Goat Boy.

      I’m eleven. He’s thirteen. He thinks he knows everything. And he’s sort of a bit of a jerk.

      No. That’s not exactly true. There’s no sort of or bit of about it. He’s a jerk.

      Goat Boy and his goat.

      All right, I did have a goat I took care of. I mean, I still do. That’s one of my jobs. So what?

      Everybody has to pitch in. That’s what my dad always says. So he runs the market stall. And my brother helps him buy the stuff we sell. And I take care of whatever animals we pick up along the way.

      I like animals. I’m good at taking care of them. What’s the big deal?

      It’s not like I call him names.

      Hello, Cheap Trinket Boy!

      Yo, Mr. Busted Pottery!

      Okay, he’d probably punch me if I did. (And he punches really hard.) But I don’t do it. That’s the point.

      Anyway, Goat Boy stuck. Mostly because he just kept saying it and wouldn’t shut up about it.

      And that’s why my friend Bug shouted, Hey, Goat Boy! when he ran up to the stall tonight, and not Hey, Gideon! which is my real name, which he knows.

      To be fair, I do call him Bug. But I don’t actually know his real name, because he likes Bug and refuses to go by anything else. Or tell anybody else what his real name actually is. So I’m sort of stuck.

      And yeah, he’s called Bug partly because he’s small. But also because he can be kind of annoying. Oh, and because one time he ate a melon that had bugs all over it. Which he went ahead and ate too.

      Honest, I nearly vomit every time I think about it. But it didn’t bother Bug at all.

      So Bug shouted, Hey, Goat Boy! and I shouted back, Hey, Bug! and that’s when he asked me, Has your dad got any wine for sale?

      Yeah, I said. He’s got some wine. How much do you need?

      As much as you have. There’s this big wedding on the other side of town, and they ran out. So the word on the street is they’ll buy whatever anyone’s got.

      Bug’s dad runs a stall like ours. We all sort of travel around together, from town to town. My dad says Bug’s dad is the best market trader he ever met. And that’s saying something, because lots of people say that about my dad. So if there was a deal going, and Bug’s dad was part of it, I knew my dad would want to get in on it as well.

      Bug and I ran to the stall to tell him, but the only person there was my big brother.

      Sam! I shouted. (Short for Samson. Known for punching people. Of course.) Where’s Dad?

      He looked down at me. He always looks down at me. Who wants to know?

      I want to know! Who do you think? I shouted.

      He’s off somewhere, doing a deal, Sam said. You’ll just have to wait.

      There isn’t time to wait, Bug whispered in his insisting, bugging sort of way. "They need the wine now!"

      I figured that. But I also figured if I told my brother, he’d sell the wine and take all the credit for it, and I’d still just be Goat Boy. This was my chance to prove that I could be a brilliant market trader too.

      So I grabbed two skins full of wine, chucked another at Bug, and said, Run!

      Goat Boy and Bug running, carrying wineskins.

      What do you two think you’re doing? my brother shouted as we disappeared down an alley. I knew he wouldn’t come after us. He needed to stay and watch the stall. And I knew my dad wouldn’t mind, either. Not if I came back with a pile of coins.

      Bug led the way, through a maze of back streets. We went as quickly as we could, but the wine skins were full and felt heavier the farther we ran.

      Finally we arrived at a big house, with torches blazing and people dancing and servants buzzing in and out. Bug grabbed a boy about our age and we put our wineskins on a table to show him. The boy’s name was Shem. He was tall and scrawny and had a front tooth missing. He was one of the servants, and also Bug’s contact.

      Where do you want us to put the wine? Bug asked. And where do we get paid? Bug’s dad had taught him well. Paid is always the most important word.

      Shem looked kind of embarrassed. Umm . . . well . . . we don’t really need the wine anymore, he muttered.

      What do you mean? Bug bugged. You ran out. You’ve got a huge crowd here. There’s no way you already found enough wine for everybody in this place.

      Shem shrugged. That’s what we thought. But then this woman came up to us. He pointed. She’s standing right over there.

      Doesn’t look much like a wine merchant to me, Bug grumbled.

      No . . . no, she isn’t, Shem said. But she has this son—the guy standing next to her—who is a rabbi or something. She heard about the wine running out, so she said that we had to do whatever her son told us to do.

      Weird, I replied. So what did he say?

      Well, we have these six big stone jars, Shem explained. They hold, I dunno, twenty or thirty gallons each. The rabbi guy told us to fill them up with water.

      What? All of them? Bug said.

      Shem nodded. Yeah. All of them. It took a little while, but we did it. And then he told us to scoop some out and serve it to the man in charge of the wedding.

      What? A cup of water? I laughed. I bet he was impressed.

      He was, Shem replied. And he looked dead serious. ’Cause it wasn’t water anymore. It was wine!

      I looked at Bug. Bug looked at me. And we both laughed.

      So this rabbi guy turned water into wine? Bug said. What’d he do next? Pull a turnip out of your ear?

      It happened. Honest! Just like I told you, Shem insisted. I don’t know how he did it. But everybody here says it’s maybe the best wine they ever tasted.

      So you don’t need our wine, then, I sighed. That’s the point. You didn’t have to make up some crazy story as an excuse.

      I didn’t make it up! Shem said. Ask any of the other servants. It was like a . . . a . . . miracle. That’s what they’re all saying.

      Well, Bug grumbled, it will be a real miracle if we don’t get in trouble for losing this sale. And all thanks to your wine-making rabbi guy.

      Then he picked up one of the wineskins and stamped off. And I stamped after him.

      It’s Jesus, Shem shouted after us as we stamped away. I think the rabbi guy’s name is Jesus.

      Do you really think we’ll get in trouble for this? I asked on the way back to the market.

      Nah. Bug

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