"'Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs!' clucked a hen on a perch." Pigling Bland faces a wicked, dangerous world,but good sense, resourcefulness and peppermints...

Poor old Aunt Pettitoes cannot afford to feed all eight of her piglet offspring, and so she sends seven of them out into the world. Pigling Bland is going to market, to find a job with a farmer when he gets lost and meets a strange old man. Keeping his wits about him, Pigling Bland succeeds in escaping from the old man, along with the beautiful young Pig-wig.

The Tale of Pigling Bland was published the year the Beatrix Potter was married and settled down to farming life for good. She had already been keeping pigs and she sketched them for this story, using her own farmyard as the setting. One little black pig was a household pet and features as the "perfectly lovely" Pig-wig who runs away with Pigling Bland.