Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI Snake happily says, “Whee!” to which Piggy replies, “I love playing catch with my friends!” While all ends on a positive note, Jeanne Willis's Susan Laughs (Holt, 2000) and Grace Maccarone's The Gym Day Winner (Scholastic, 1996) offer more respectful treatments of inclusion. Then Piggy gets the idea to use Snake as the ball. Then Elephant decides, “Maybe we need more balls,” and the next spread shows Elephant and Piggy bombarding Snake with balls, each one hitting him with a “BONK!” and Snake upside down in anguish. Piggy follows suit, with the same result. On the next page, Snake diffuses his rejection by saying, “Hee-hee! Ha-ha! Hee-hee! Ha-ha! Hee-hee! I know I do not have arms./I am a snake.” Elephant asks, “But can a snake play catch?” The story moves from clever to cruel as Elephant throws the ball and hits Snake on the head, and the reptile's expressions indicate distress. Piggy breaks the silence stating, “You don't have arms!” and Snake dejectedly slithers away. Simple gestures and facial expressions convey Elephant's embarrassment at Snake's inability to catch a ball.
Before they begin, Snake asks to join them. Elephant and Piggie make brief cameo appearances to bookend these new stories.Ī musical has been produced based on the Elephant and Piggie books.K-Gr 2–This beginning reader focuses on differently abled animals as Elephant and Piggy get ready for a game of catch. Since then, Willems has developed a series called Elephant and Piggie Like Reading!, which features pictures books by other authors. In August 2015, Willems announced that the 25th book in the series would be the last. Two books in the series have been listed on Time magazine's Top 10 Children's Books of the Year: Today I Will Fly! (ranked #2 in 2007) and Elephants Cannot Dance! (ranked #5 in 2009). There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside? won the Geisel Medal in 20. Books are added to the series on a roughly quarterly schedule, with two books occasionally released on the same day. The books often address issues of friendship. The books are written in conversational style with Piggie's words appearing in pink letter bubbles and Gerald's appearing in grey letter bubbles. The series, which debuted in 2007 with two books, is done in a comic book style, and features two friends: an elephant named Gerald, and a pig named Piggie. Elephant and Piggie is a book series for early readers created by Mo Willems.
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