In the latest book of the Elephant & Piggie series, Piggie pretends to be a frog while Gerald (the elephant) looks on in confusion. When Gerald starts to worry about his friend's transformation, Piggie explains what it means to pretend. Will Gerald ever stop worrying and join the fun?
Like the other outstanding selections in this early reader series, this book is filled with humor that kids of all ages (and adults!) will love. It's an excellent choice for practicing fluency, expression and word recognition (due to the repetition of many words and phrases throughout the book). For upper elementary grades, books in the Elephant & Piggie series could be studied as mentor texts. Mo Willems makes many important decisions about punctuation, font size and the use of capitalized or italicized letters to direct readers to read his text a certain way.
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