{{Short description|Children's book series by Kate DiCamillo}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox book series | name = ''Mercy Watson series'' | image = MercyWatsonToTheRescue.jpg | caption = Cover of the first book in The Mercy Watson series | books = ''Mercy Watson to the Rescue'' (2005)<br>''Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride'' (2006)<br>''Mercy Watson Fights Crime'' (2006)<br>''Mercy Watson, Princess in Disguise'' (2007)<br>''Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig'' (2008)<br>''Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes'' (2009)<br>''A Piglet Named Mercy'' (2019)<br>''A Very Mercy Christmas'' (2022) | author = Kate DiCamillo | country = United States | language = English | genre = Children's fiction | publisher = Candlewick Press | pub_date = 2005–2022 | media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback) | number_of_books = }} '''''Mercy Watson''''' is a series of children's books written by American author Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen.<!-- http://www.chrisvandusen.com/ the illustrator and author of children's books is not Chris Van Dusen --> The eponymous Mercy Watson is a fictional pig - often described as a "porcine wonder" by her owners Mrs. and Mr. Watson - who loves toast with 'a great deal of butter on it'.
''Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride'' was a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book in 2007 — one of three runners-up for the Geisel Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=(Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award winners and honor books, 2006 - present |url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward/geiselawardpastwinners |website=Association for Library Service to Children |date=30 November 1999 |publisher=American Library Association |accessdate=11 September 2019}}</ref>
Eight ''Mercy Watson'' books were published from 2005 to 2022 by Candlewick Press of Somerville, Massachusetts.<ref name=loc> [https://archive.today/20121212011221/http://lccn.loc.gov/n99039887 "DiCamillo, Kate"]. Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 2012-04-13. <br/>This is a point of entry to LC Online Catalog entries for books by Kate DiCamillo. (See also the same source for Chris Van Dusen, below.)</ref>
==Books==
* ''Mercy Watson to the Rescue'' (2005) * ''Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride'' (2006) * ''Mercy Watson Fights Crime'' (2006) * ''Mercy Watson, Princess in Disguise'' (2007) * ''Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig'' (2008) * ''Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes'' (2009) * ''A Piglet Named Mercy'' (2019) * ''A Very Mercy Christmas'' (2022)
===''Tales from Deckawoo Drive'' series=== * ''Leroy Ninker Saddles Up'' (2014) * ''Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon'' (2015) * ''Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?'' (2016) * ''Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package'' (2017) * ''Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem'' (2020) * ''Franklin Endicott and the Third Key'' (2021) * ''Mercy Watson is Missing!'' (2023)
==Geisel Honor Book== ''Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride'' ({{ISBN|0-763-62332-6}}) was one of three Geisel Honor Books (runners-up for the Geisel Award) in 2007.
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==External links== * [http://www.katedicamillo.com/books/leroy1.html ''Leroy Ninker Saddles Up''] by DiCamillo and Van Dusen (Candlewick, forthcoming August 26, 2014) – featuring the horse Maybelline * [http://www.chrisvandusen.com Chris Van Dusen, illustrator] <!-- not our Chris Van Dusen --> * {{LCAuth|n95106903|Chris Van Dusen|19|}} <!-- {{Authority control|VIAF=52856798 |LCCN=n/95/106903 |GND=132708825}} but that VIAF bundle also includes our biography of a different person [wh i reported 2014-04-27 -P64 We have no biography of the illustrator, where alone template {Authority control} belongs. ISFDB gives no biog data. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?156768 LCCN no biog data except "lives in Camden ME". --> * [https://www.mercywatson.com Mercy Watson's official website]
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