Little piggie found a little ball to play with, but, unfortunately, a big guy took his ball. Upset, piggie runs and tells his friend Gerald, the elephant. Gerald is not happy someone took piggie's ball, and vows to get it. Quickly, he becomes shocked and stunned when he finds out a big whale has piggie's ball. Gerald returns to piggie informing him he didn't get the ball back. He is abruptly interrupted by a big whale, thanking them for finding his ball. However, big whale is sad proclaiming he has no one to play with. Gerald and piggie feel sorry and ask him to play whale ball, a game they thought of right on the spot. Ecstatic, whale joins them in their new game. By only using three characters throughout the story, young children are able to comprehend and internalize what the story is about. The large text size is geared towards the intellectual maturity of early readers. The simplicity of the illustrations are befitting to the intended audience of beginning readers. Through the use of dialogue, the author makes it easy to follow the story line. The illustrations of each character depict the authentic size and shape of each animal. By using a pig, whale, and elephant as the illustrations, the new reader is able to connect to the story with easily identifiable animals. The innocent natured book encompasses the true essence of what friendship is all about. I would recommend this the entire series, by Mo Willems, of elephant and piggie, to young readers.
No comments:
Post a Comment