  | If you give a pig a pancake Author: Numeroff, Laura Joffe | |
| Price: $23.98 | ||
Summary:
One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.
| Illustrator: | Bond, Felicia |
Download a Teacher's Guide| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 2.50 Points: .5 Quiz: 29210 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: K-2 Reading Level: 2.80 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 05715 | |
Common Core Standards
Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Craft & Structure
Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (05/01/98)
School Library Journal (07/98)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (06/98)
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 07/01/1998 PreS-Gr 2--This delightful story continues the playfulness found in its predecessors, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985) and If You Give a Moose a Muffin (1991, both HarperCollins). Here, a little girl is the patient hostess to a demanding piglet, whose myriad requests lead them from the kitchen table to the bathtub to the backyard. Along the way, the endearing porker puts on a pair of tap shoes, gets her picture taken balancing on top of the living room furniture, prepares a stack of mail to send to her friends, and builds and decorates a tree house. Preschoolers and beginning readers will enjoy spotting the objects mentioned in the story. Beginning with the cover illustration of the piglet daintily perched on a windowsill, Bond has once again created an adorable character that expresses the text perfectly. The humor and quick pace of Numeroff's engaging narrative make this book an excellent choice for reading aloud. A surefire crowd-pleaser.--Diane Janoff, Queens Borough Public Library, NY - Copyright 1998 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
Bulletin for the Center... - 06/01/1998 What’s good enough for mice or moose is good enough for pigs as this new spin on Numeroff’s practiced gag sets out to prove. This time around a pudgy little porker is given a pancake and the ensuing pandemonium, though expected, is every bit as zany as the cookie and muffin escapades. Maple syrup on a pancake leads to a bubble bath, tap dancing, silly photographs, letter writing, tree house building, decorating with wallpaper, wallpaper glue, which is sticky . . . like syrup, bringing an exhausted little girl and the energetic little pig right back to where they started. Kids who appreciated the cyclical chaos of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (BCCB 7/85) and If You Give a Moose a Muffin (BCCB 9/91) won’t be disappointed with this installment featuring Bond’s good-natured watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures, brimming with comical details and starring an exuberant little piglet who knows how to get what she wants. - Copyright 1998 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
Booklist - 05/15/1998 Following the same speculative logic that made If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1987) and If You Give a Moose a Muffin (1991) so popular, this winsome picture book shows what happens when a girl gives the little pig on her windowsill a plate of pancakes. One thing leads to another: pancakes to syrup, syrup to stickiness, stickiness to a bath, a bath to a rubber duck, the duck to homesickness for the pig's farm, homesickness to packing for the trip, packing to finding tap shoes, tap shoes to performing a dance, the dance to taking photos--and eventually to another plate of pancakes. The wild gyrations of the plot will delight children as much as the clean, orderly lines and clear, gentle color of the artwork. Expect many requests for this one, from parents, teachers, and children. (Reviewed May 15, 1998) - Copyright 1998 Booklist.
