Librarianista Spotlight on: Elephant and Piggie
by Mo Willems
Elephant and Piggie are two great friends! To date, they have adventures in 15 books:
- Today I Will Fly!
- My Friend Is Sad
- There’s a Bird on Your Head!
- I Am Invited to a Party!
- I Love My New Toy!
- I Will Surprise My Friend!
- Are You Ready to Play Outside?
- Watch Me Throw the Ball!
- Elephants Cannot Dance!
- Pigs Make Me Sneeze!
- I Am Going!
- Can I Play Too?
- We Are in a Book!
- I Broke My Trunk!
- Should I Share My Ice Cream?
These books are designed for beginning readers using a basic vocabulary and comic book-style, color coded word bubbles.
And in my humble opinion, these books are hilarious. I’m 24, and I was laughing at them. Willems knows his way around kids’ stuff, that’s for darned sure. The stories are easy to follow and highly relatable to young readers. The drawings are magically simple, but they evoke great emotion (typically in my case, it’s a reaction of hilarity or adorability). If I ever reproduce, my kids will have these books.
They are all wonderful. There’s not one that I didn’t like (and I just read them all). But if I had to pick a favorite? I’d have to say either We Are in a Book!, Can I Play Too?, I Am Invited to a Party! or There’s a Bird on Your Head! I realize that’s more than one favorite, but since I’m the blogger, I make the rules for my own posts.
Images taken from http://www.pigeonpresents.com/
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January 31, 2012 at 12:01 pm |
[...] Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems I love Elephant and Piggie. All of them. And anything that Mo Willems does. Kids don’t even realize what they’re learning when they read his books. All they know is that they love these characters and that these books are funny! They also made a great Halloween costume: [...]