Big Pigs

Why do we love pigs books so much?  Because it’s so fun to give them human characteristics and love them in spite of their obvious flaws.  This picture book has it all right: great text and fabulous pictures.

The story follows three sibling pigs who are playing the familiar game of “whoever can eat the most vegetables is the biggest pig.”  The pigs eat the vegetable patch, rolled in the mud patch and brought mud back to the barnyard.  When mama pig found them she she told them all that they did and sent them into the barn.

She followed them in and gave them big hugs and told them how proud she was of them!

I love pigs.

The Big Green

This is a good quality, everybody book with a focus on the color green.  The illustrations make this book very appealing and will likely hold the attention of the youngest readers.  The overall graphic lay-out, colorization, font and intrigues of text is a winning combination.

 

The story line the main character observing and looking for green and comparing the different places where you would find green  The text reads with a variety of fun rhythm, cadence, some alliteration, etc.  The text will hold the attention of young readers or those who are being read to.

 

Winning combination of text and illustrations. Recommended.

Princess Posey and the New First Grader

This is wonderful beginning chapter book, with a fabulous cover which will entice young readers with an infinity for feminine pictures and books.  In this book Posey learns that she has a “cowlick” swirl in her hair and then she tries to tell a classmate that she has one, too.  The classmate interprets this as calling her “cow lips”.  The teacher helps to clairify the miscommunication and the girls play together happily at the end.  This a great realistic fiction which I predict will hold beginning reader’s attention.