elephant & piggie.

every so often, a book comes along that the whole family loves. it's a rarity to be able to cater to a 30-something dad, 20-something mom, a 5 yr. old girl, and a 1 yr. old boy, all with the same book. lucky for us, authors like mo willems (who also happened to be on sesame street back in the day, wrote and illustrated the naked mole rat books, and is also a new york times HUGE bestseller!), are around to write books like the elephant & piggie series!

a bit sarcastic, super-funny, and easy-to-read, these should definitely be at the top of your library-list! and the best part, there are TONS of them! and if your kids are anything like mine, once they read one book, they want a hundred that are exactly the same ... there's a reason there are 5 billion young reader and teen series'—kids know what they like!

here's piggie, she's usually the instigator ...
and of course, gerald. his glass is usually half-empty ...

all the elephant & piggie books are written in the style below. they're an awesome introduction to dialogue writing and recognition. some have more words than others, but most of them use tons of the sight words that the kids are introduced to in kindergarten.

enjoy! (i know for fact that the spokane valley library currently has somewhere in the realm of nine books from this series available right NOW!)