I Will Take a Nap! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

by Mo Willems

Overview

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


Gerald and Piggie are best friends.


In I Will Take a Nap! Gerald is tired and cranky. Will Piggie be in his dreams? Or will she keep Gerald from dreaming at all?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484716304
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/02/2015
Series:	Elephant and Piggie Series
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	32,562
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	BR (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mo Willems (www.pigeonpresents.com), a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was also an inaugural inductee into the Indies Choice Picture Book Hall of Fame. The celebrated Elephant & Piggie early-reader series has been awarded the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal on two occasions (for There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside?) as well as garnering four Honors (for We Are in a Book!, I Broke My Trunk!,Let’s Go for a Drive! and A Big Guy Took My Ball!).Other favorites include Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed and City Dog, Country Frog, illustrated by Jon J Muth. Mo lives with his family in Massachusetts.

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Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES
"Willems manages to hit that singular moment where even the most restrained readers can’t help but bark out a laugh."—BCCB

PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES
* “These masterful mini-dramas will delight and amuse easy-reader and picture-book audiences, alike.”—School Library Journal (starred review)

PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES
*"Accessible, appealing, and full of authetic emotions about what makes friendships tick, these titles will put a contemporary shine on easy reader collections."—Booklist (starred review)

From the Publisher

07/01/2015
K-Gr 2—Willems delivers another exemplary entry for beginning readers. Announcing that he is cranky and tired, Gerald the elephant decides to take a nap to improve his mood. Just how restful this will be comes into serious question when Piggie enters his dream and begins pestering him. The increasingly agitated elephant freaks out, as Gerald is wont to do, and soon both Piggie and Elephant are in desperate need of sleep. This dream sequence goes from funny to downright kooky when their respective stuffed animals, acting as a Greek chorus, comment on some of the more outrageous happenings. The expressions of Elephant and Piggie, in combination with the simple yet emotional text, will have young readers laughing and identifying with the characters and the topic. VERDICT Filled with slapstick humor and a sense of the absurd, this book is a sure bet for fans of the series and a lovely introduction for those not yet acquainted with it.—Amy Nolan, St. Joseph Public Library, St. Joseph, MI

School Library Journal

2015-04-01
Poor Gerald the elephant—all he wants is to take a nap.A bleary-eyed Gerald blinks out at readers from the cover, blanket and Knuffle bunny tucked in his arms. Piggie's head pokes into the frame from the side at a 90-degree angle, hinting at the disruption to come. Inside, "I am tired," Gerald announces. "And cranky. // I am going to take a nap." Those declarations set off a characteristically hilarious encounter between the fussbudget elephant and his porcine pal. He spreads out his mat, lies down…and in marches Piggie, hollering, "GERALD!" Gerald explodes from slumber in alarm. Readers will not find it at all surprising, though they will find it funny, that pretty soon Gerald's cranky mood spreads to Piggie, who decides that she will take a nap, too: "SNORE! / SNORE! SNORE! SNORE!" Several pages later, the stertorous swine wakes up, rested and smiling. "How are you enjoying your nap, Gerald?" Beside himself, the elephant rages that he is "NOT napping!"—but if he's not napping, then how come Piggie is floating? And endowed with a turnip-head? Careful readers will have noticed the change in background color that cues this extended dream sequence—and they may also find themselves wondering whether Gerald could possibly be as rested as he seems when he really wakes up. As naps go, this is about as strenuous—and as funny—as it gets. (Early reader. 3-9)

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