There Is a Bird on Your Head! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems, Mo Willems (Illustrator)

From the Publisher

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
Piggies cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.

Gerald and Piggie are best friends.

In There Is a Bird on Your Head! Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head -- two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?

Children's Literature

Having done a gaggle of Pigeons and a couple of Knufflebunnies, the prolific Mo Willems is now into his third easy-read book for 2007 featuring Elephant and Piggie. These two have a lot in common with Penguin in the way Willems manages to get a tremendous amount of expression into eyebrows and turns of the mouth in his just beyond stick figure drawings. So too this book shows his signature style by using very simple sentences and dialogue to build a story around an irresistibly absurd situation. “There is a bird on your head.” Piggie announces to Elephant who replies, “There is a bird on my head?” and runs off screaming. The story goes on with a series of statements turned into questions. New readers are likely to find reading this book an engaging way to show how punctuation can change the meaning; the expressions on the faces will make it easy for them to know just how to read with expression as well. Reviewer: Mary Hynes-Berry

Product Details

• ISBN: 1423106865
  
• ISBN-13: 9781423106869
• Format: Hardcover, 64pp
• Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
• Pub. Date: July 2007
• Sales Rank: 2,426
• Age Range: 4 to 6
• Series: Elephant and Piggie Series