Are You Ready to Play Outside?-An Elephant and Piggie Book
Mo Willems, award-winning, New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Unlimited Squirrels, presents best friends Elephant Gerald and Piggie. 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 Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Piggie can't wait to go play in the sunshine. But will a rainy day ruin all the fun? Read all of Elephant Gerald and Piggie's adventures!- Today I Will Fly!- My Friend is Sad- I Am Invited to a Party!- There is a Bird on Your Head!- I Love My New Toy!- I Will Surprise My Friend!- Are You Ready to Play Outside?- Watch Me Throw the Ball!- Elephants Cannot Dance!- Pigs Make Me Sneeze!- I Am Going!- Can I Play Too?- We Are in a Book!- I Broke My Trunk!- Should I Share My Ice Cream?- Let's Go for a Drive!- Happy Pig Day!- Listen to My Trumpet!- A Big Guy Took My Ball!- I'm a Frog!- My New Friend is So Fun!- Waiting is Not Easy!- I Will Take a Nap!- I Really Like Slop!- The Thank You BookPublisher: Hyperion Books for ChildrenPublished: 10/28/2008Pages: 64Weight: 0.8lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.70w x 0.50dISBN: 9781423113478Age: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 0.6Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 154562 / Are You Ready to Play Outside?Award: Geisel Medal (Dr. Seuss) - WinnerAward: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - RecommendedAward: Young Hoosier Book Award - NomineeReview Citation(s): Booklist 11/15/2008 pg. 51School Library Journal 12/01/2008 pg. 106Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2008Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2009 pg. 104ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2009 pg. 21Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 pg. 53 - Superior,Well Above AverageAbout the AuthorMo Willems is the author and illustrator of such groundbreaking books as Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Caldecott Honor winner 2004) and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Caldecott Honor winner 2003), leading the New York Times to declare him "the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the '00s." Mo considers this series some of his most fun work. Mo's deceptively simple art style was developed in his early career as a six-time Emmy Award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Streetand the creator of Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. same as above