I'm A Frog! (Elephant & Piggie Hb)

Author: Mo Willems

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  • : 27.00 NZD
  • : 9781423183051
  • : Hyperion Press
  • : Hyperion Books for Children
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  • : 0.29
  • : September 2013
  • : 241mm X 178mm X 13mm
  • : United States
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  • : Mo Willems
  • : Elephant & Piggie
  • : Hardback
  • : 1310
  • : Mo Willems
  • : English
  • : E
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  • : 64
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  • : illustrations
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Barcode 9781423183051
9781423183051

Description

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 I'm a Frog! Piggie has some "ribbit"ing news! Can Gerald make the leap required to accept Piggie's new identity?

Awards

Short-listed for Garden State Children's Book Awards (Easy Readers) 2016 and Beehive Awards (Picture Book) 2016.

Reviews

Piggie teaches her pachyderm pal to pretend. Considering that this is their 20th outing, Elephant seems a little slow on the uptake, but he sees the light eventually. Hopping around her bewildered buddy with many a "Ribbet!" Piggie explains, "I was a pig. Now I am a frog." Gerald the elephant panics, thinking that he too might be transformed at any moment; there's all that hopping, and as for eating flies-!


Piggie goes on to explain just what "pretending" is all about. Stunned-"And you can just do that?!" -and assured that even grown-ups pretend, Elephant resists Piggie's invitation to join her in the game.


A characteristically hilarious spread depicts the two in heated debate, Piggie's seven pink speech balloons ("Yes you can!") tangling with Elephant's eight gray ones ("No, I can't!"). But he's got the last laugh, going on to let out a mighty "MOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cue the animal concert.


As ever, Willems gives figures drawn with elemental simplicity and broadly expressed reactions just a few, but often very large, dialogue words to tell the tale. Children aren't likely to need the instruction, but the validation may be helpful to counter imagination-repressing parents or older sibs. (Early reader. 4-8) Kirkus"

Author description

Mo Willems (www.pigeonpresents.com), a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was also an inaugural inductee into the Indies Choice Picture Book Hall of Fame. And his celebrated Elephant & Piggie early reader series has been awarded the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal on two occasions (for There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside?) as well as three Honors (for We Are in a Book!, I Broke My Trunk!, and Let's Go for a Drive!).

Other favorites include Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed and City Dog, Country Frog, illustrated by Jon J Muth. See above.