I Know a Wee Piggy
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803737351 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Five Stars Amazon Customer This book provides a fun way to learn and/or review colors with young children!. "Wee Piggy" according to Doris Gwaltney. The text and the illustrations of this excellent picture book absolutely go together. Kids will love hearing it read to them, and parents will love reading it to the kids. And it so happens that the author, Kimberly Norman, lives in Smithfield, the pig capital of our country. She knows whereof she writes. Illustrator, Henry Cole, lives in Florida, but he knows all about wee piggies, too. Doris Gwaltney. Bertha said Great book!. We have checked this book out from the library numerous times and now I need to order it to keep. It is fun to read and great to help children learn colors and reinforce literacy skills.
Henry Cole is a self-taught artist and the beloved illustrator of more than twenty books for young readers. . Kimberly Norman is a children's book author and graphic designer. He lives in Wilton Manors, Florida. She lives with her husband and two sons in Smithfield, Virginia
A clever, colorful read-aloud in the tradition of I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a FlyA fun day at the fair becomes color chaos when one boy's energetic pig gets loose. Upside down, piggy wallows in brown, but that's only the beginning of this cumulative, rhyming text. Soon, he's adding a rinse of red (tomatoes), a wash of white (milk), a pinch of pink (cotton candy), and many more. Can piggy be caught before he turns the whole fair upside down? With exuberant art by Henry Cole, this wild pig chase is a natural choice for teaching colors and begs to be read aloud.
* "Cole's porcine hero steals the show: even the fussiest grownups will fall for this eager-eyed, grinning, leaping, prancing, filthy pig. This gleefully messy pig will prompt endless re-readings." — Kirkus Reviews. E And a" — Publishers Weekly, starred review"A surefire winner." — School Library Journal, starred review"Youngsters will eagerly join in and sing along with the cumulative verse and laugh out loud with the lovable piggy as he scampers throughout the fair, wreaking havoc everywhere he g