My New Friend Is So Fun!-An Elephant and Piggie Book

All the books are well done...

My family has enjoyed Elephant and Piggie for several years. We own most of the books, and we pre-ordered My New Friend Is So Fun back in December. This installment of the series focuses on Gerald, and brings back the Snake character from Can I Play Too? When Gerald finds out that Piggie is playing with her new friend Brian Bat, he is very excited. But then slowly, Gerald begins to worry that Piggie and Brian might be having too much fun together. Gerald and Snake (who is Brian’s best friend) imagine themselves being replaced. I love Gerald-centric books because they really showcase the elephant at his neurotic best. Gerald manages to get himself into a frenzy, but it is all for naught: Piggie would never abandon her best friend. The ending is quite sweet, and solidifies the message that people can have multiple friends. I found this book to be especially relevant to our own lives because one of my girls has trouble with the concept that friends can play with other people. She and her best friend are reluctant to play with other children. This book presents friendship in a fun and engaging manner. The illustrations are charming. Mo Willems gives his characters a broad emotional range, and this adds to the humor value of the story. The illustrations appear on a plain white background, so the emphasis is on body language and facial expressions. I have two children on the autism spectrum, so having well defined body language and facial expressions helps us have conversations about how a character is thinking. Elephant and Piggie books are great for reading out loud with a beginning reader. There is no descriptive prose; the characters communicate via speech bubbles. The language is fairly simple, and words/phrases are often repeated. I would absolutely recommend My New Friend Is So Fun. We just got this book yesterday, and it has already been read multiple times. The book is 57 pages long, but there are only a couple of lines per page, so it is a quick read.

This series of books is the best. We have collected nearly all of them now and my Granddaughter never tires of them.

My daughter is in love with the Elephant and Piggy books. I love good children's books. I have kind of a rule for myself that I won't buy my children books unless I also love them, after all I'm going to be the one stuck reading to the kids, so why would I read books to them that I don't also enjoy? The elephant and piggy, (really ANY mo willems book) all are so funny and have silly or good messages for kids. I haven't been disappointed yet in an Elephant and Piggy book. I enjoy reading time with my children so much. Reading time is actually my favorite thing to do with my children because we get to sit and cuddle and laugh together. Thanks to these books, reading time is so enjoyable. You won't regret the purchase. :) We have given them away for gifts to cousins/friends also and introduced these books to other people and everyone just falls in love with them.

All the children that I read to love this series of books. My son loves all of Mo Willems' books in general. The stories in the Elephant and Piggie series are all dialogue, which is fun for a child that is just learning to read. Each of you can pick a character to read for, either Elephant or Piggie, and go back and forth reading the whole book together. I think this series is good for helping children develop emotional and social intelligence. Issues like fairness, friendship, sharing, differences and diversity, are all presented. The illustrations and quality of the hardcover are also awesome for this book.

My daughter likes those book really good for starting reading

My 8 year old grandson loves this series. I have purchased several in the series so that I always take him a book when we see each other. I read them in advance of giving them to him, and the stories are interesting with a valuable lesson.

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LOVE THESE BOOKS! I'm an esl teacher and my kids love this series. Laugh out loud funny for the kids (english or french)

Comprei para meu filho como material para usar no ano letivo

Otro gran libro de piggie y gerald para niños lectores. Muy divertido, con una buena enseñanza y buena práctica de lectura. Lo recomiendo.

Another Mo Willems classic, getting kids to think there's always another point of view.

Great book for kindergarten children keeps them interested in books