Synopses & Reviews
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 ribbiting news! Can Gerald make the leap required to accept Piggie's new identity?
Review
"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-!" Kirkus
Review
"Elephant and Piggie continue to amuse in this early reader. Piggie pretends to be a ribbiting, jumping frog, and children will catch on quickly and delight in "explaining" to Elephant that his friend is not actually a frog. The story is especially entertaining when Piggie tries to convince Elephant that he, too, can play their banter escalates to a spread of tangled "No, I can't!/Yes, you can!" speech bubbles." School Library Journal
About the Author
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 and 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.