Happy Pig Day!-An Elephant and Piggie Book Spiral-Bound | 2011-10-04

Mo Willems

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Mo Willems, award-winning, New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Unlimited Squirrels, presents best friends Elephant Gerald and Piggie. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Happy Pig Day! Piggie celebrates her favorite day of the year! But will Gerald the Elephant be included in the festivities? Read all of Elephant Gerald and Piggie's adventures! · Today I Will Fly! · My Friend is Sad · I Am Invited to a Party! · There is a Bird on Your Head! · 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? · Let's Go for a Drive! · Happy Pig Day! · Listen to My Trumpet! · A Big Guy Took My Ball! · I'm a Frog! · My New Friend is So Fun! · Waiting is Not Easy! · I Will Take a Nap! · I Really Like Slop! · The Thank You Book Read more
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64 pages
Item Weight: 0.65 lbs
Dimensions: 6.75 x 0.4 x 9.25 inches
PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT & PIGGIE BOOKS:

“Beginning reader heaven.”—Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

*“These books will easily take their place alongside Seuss and Eastman as classics in the beginning-reader genre.”—The Bulletin (starred review)

*“Accessible, appealing, and full of authentic emotions about what makes friendships tick, these titles will put a contemporary shine on easy reader collections.”—Booklist (starred review)

*“These masterful mini-dramas will delight and amuse easy-reader and picture-book audiences, alike.”—School Library Journal (starred review)

“In the world of children’s picture books, the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00’s is the writer-illustrator Mo Willems.”—The New York Times

“Better than Beckett . . . Elephant and Piggie are the Vladimir and Estragon of Children’s Literature.”—Entertainment Weekly