Every Child Can be a Reading Star A little girls wonders what it would like to have a pig for a pet. In this silly book for beginning readers, In this silly book for beginning readers, a littler girl imagines what a pig would do and if her mom would let her have a pig. If I had a Pig is part of the Reading Stars series. Reading Star books are for kids at the very beginning of a lifetime love of reading. Each book features fewer than 50 words and uses repetition to build confidence. If I had a Pig is 24 pages long and features 39 different sight words for your child to master. The words are: a, are, bad, be, big, clean, does, farms, fun, get, had, house, houses, I, If, in, it, know, let, little, live, me, mom, my, not, on, our, pig, pigs, says, she, smell, some, stay, to, want, will, would