Piggies in Pajamas: with audio recording

by Michelle Meadows, Ard Hoyt (Illustrator)

Overview

The spirited oinkers from Piggies in the Kitchen are back—and they won’t go to sleep!

After Mama has put her kids to bed, she settles in to make some phone calls. But she keeps hearing things from upstairs. Could her little piggies be jumping on the bed or playing dress-up instead of sleeping? But every time Mama goes up to check on them, they are all tucked in…until the noises begin again!

Kids and parents alike will relate to the eternal bedtime struggle so playfully depicted in this delightful eBook with audio.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442468658
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	03/05/2013
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD460L (what's this?)
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Michelle Meadows is the author of Itsy Bitsy Baby Mouse, Traffic Pups, Pilot Pups, Piggies in the Kitchen, Piggies in Pajamas, Hibernation Station, and The Way the Storm Stops. She lives near the beach in Delaware.

Ard Hoyt has illustrated a number of books, including the New York Times bestsellers I’m a Manatee by John Lithgow and The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School by Laurie Halse Anderson. Ard lives with his wife and five daughters in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Editorial Reviews

The piggies may be in their pajamas, but they have little interest in snoozing. While Mama's in the kitchen and Papa is working late, the shoats make merry. "Piggies in pajamas, / jumping in the air, / tossing up the pillows, / popcorn in their hair." The five little piggies of various ages finish their jumping and use their imaginations. First they are mountain climbers and simultaneously ocean divers, but "THUMP, THUMP. / OINK, OINK-- / All the piggies fall. / STOMP, STOMP, / STOMP, / STOMP-- / 'Mama's in the hall!' " They hurry up to hide in bed and wait to make sure Mama's not coming. Then it's off to pretend to be a train until they hear the stomping again! Hide under the covers...and then a pillow fight when the coast is clear. But a scratching branch at the window sounds like a wolf or a fox or a bear! Those piggies know the best place to go when they're scared! Mama's bed is big and cozy: "Good night, piggies!" Meadows and Hoyt team up again for another tale of porcine mischief (Piggies in the Kitchen, 2011). Little listeners will see themselves in Meadows' friendly, creative rhymes (though the noisy onomatopoeia might not make for the best bedtime read). Hoyt's pale watercolors of full-bleed rambunctiousness (with occasional insets of a suspicious Mama downstairs) are a terrific match. Piggies in pajamas: pure porky pleasure! (Picture book. 2-7)

Kirkus Reviews