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Elephant and Piggie is a book series for early readers by Mo Willems. The series, which debuted in 2007 with two books, is done in a comic book style, and features two friends: an elephant, Gerald, and a pig, Piggie. The books are written in conversational style with Piggie's words appearing in pink letter bubbles and Gerald's appearing in grey letter bubbles. The books often address issues of friendship. Books are added to the series on a roughly quarterly schedule, with two books occasionally released on the same day. There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside? won the Geisel Medal in 2008 and 2009. Two books in the series have been listed on Time magazine's Top 10 Children's Books of the Year: Today I Will Fly! (ranked #2 in 2007)[1] and Elephants Cannot Dance! (ranked #5 in 2009).[2]

In August 2015, Willems announced that the 25th book in the series would be the last.[3] However, more have been published but they are written by other authors. Elephant and Piggie make brief cameo appearances to bookend these new stories.

A musical has been produced based on the Elephant and Piggie books.[4]

Books

  1. Today I Will Fly! / My Friend is Sad (Mar 2007)
  2. I Am Invited to a Party! / There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Jul 2007)
  3. I Love My New Toy! / I Will Surprise My Friend! (Jun 2008)
  4. Are You Ready To Play Outside? / Watch Me Throw The Ball! (Oct 2008)
  5. Elephants Cannot Dance! / Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (Mar 2009)
  6. I Am Going! / Can I Play Too? (Jun 2009)
  7. We Are In A Book! / I Broke My Trunk! (Oct 2009)
  8. Should I Share My Ice Cream? / Happy Pig Day! (Jan 2010)
  9. Listen To My Trumpet / Let's Go for a Drive! (Jun 2010)
  10. A Big Guy Took My Ball / I'm a Frog! (Sept 2010)
  11. My New Friend Is So Fun / Waiting Is Not Easy! (Feb 2011)
  12. I Will Take a Nap! / I Really Like Slop! (June 2011)
  13. The Thank You Book (Oct 2011)
  14. We Are Growing (September 2016)
  15. The Cookie Fiasco (September 2016)
  16. The Good for Nothing Button (May 2017)
  17. It's Shoe Time! (November 2017)
  18. The Itchy Book (May 2018)
  19. Harold & Hog Pretend for Real! (May 2019)
  20. What About Worms?! (May 2020)
  21. I'm On It! (May 2021)

References

  1. ^ Luscombe, Belinda & Lennard Goehner, Amy; Top 10 Children's books; time.com
  2. ^ Lennard Goehner, Amy; Top 10 Children's books; time.com
  3. ^ "SEPTEMBER UPDATE!". Mo Willems Doodles. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play! - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts". www.kennedy-center.org. Retrieved 2017-01-27.