Mig the Pig

The Hawkinses built a small phonics engine into a picture book and wrapped it in a genuinely fun story about a pig in a wig — and it works. The flip-the-consonant mechanism teaches the '-ig' word family without ever feeling like a lesson, which is exactly what early readers need. ALA Booklist called it painless phonics, and that's the right description: kids get the skill, parents get a book they can read together without dread.