Book excerpt: Every Child Can be a Reading Star The pig is pink. Got it? Don’t get tricked in this funny beginning reader featuring a pink, pink pig. I am a Pink Pig is the first book in the Reading Stars series. Reading Star books are for kids at the very beginning of a lifetime love of reading. Each book features less than 50 words and uses repetition to build confidence. I am a Pink Pig is 20 pages long and features 13 different words for your child to master. The words are : I, a, am, not, red, pink, blue, green, pig, cat, dog, bird, turtle.