Awards

• Commended for Cybils (Easy Readers) 2014
• Winner of Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award (Beginning Fiction) 2015

Overview

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 My New Friend Is So Fun!, Piggie has found a new friend! But is Gerald ready to share?   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

Full Product Details

9781423179580

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Reviews

Can Gerald and Piggie's friendship withstand the friendly overtures of Brian Bat? When Snake informs Gerald that Piggie is playing with Brian Bat, he is at first complacent. Brian is nice, he observes; Snake concurs-after all, he says, Brian is my Best Friend! Their mutual reflection that Piggie and Brian must be having a super-duper fun time! turns, however, to paranoia when they realize that if their best pals are having that much fun together, then / maybe they do not need us (that last is printed in teeny-tiny, utterly demoralized type). Gerald and Snake dash/slither to put an end to the fun. Their fears are confirmed when the two new buddies tell them they have been playing BEST FRIEND GAMES! -which, it turns out, means making drawings of their respective best friends, Gerald and Snake. Awww. While the buildup to the friends' confrontation is characteristically funny, there's a certain feeling of anticlimax to the story's resolution. How many young children, when playing with a new friend, are likely to spend their time thinking of the friends that they are not playing with? This is unfortunate, as the emotions that Gerald and Snake experience are realistic and profound, deserving of more than a platitudinous, unrealistic response. Everything that readers have come to love about the Elephant & Piggie books is present-masterful pacing, easy-to-follow, color-coded speech bubbles, hilarious body language-except an emotionally satisfying ending. (Early reader. 6-8) Kirkus

Author Information

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. Mo lives with his family in Massachusetts. See above.

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