Customer Reviews

If You Give a Pig a Party

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This book lives up to the same standards as the other "If You Give . . ." books. If you love the moose and mouse characters from the other books, you'll be happy to know that they make appearances in this book as well. As always the illustrations in this book are adorable. My two year old and I love the page where all of the animals play hide and seek. She likes trying to find the animals over and over again in the backyard. Any one to six year old would love this book. A good addition to your book collection!

Darling book! My almost 3 year old loves it. It is creative and the illustrations are very cute. There is also a page where the animals hide and it is great to quiz your kids and have them try to find them. This book is probably my favorite from her series.

This book is right up there with Laura Numeroff's Original series of If you give...A Pig a Pancake; A Moose a Muffin; and A Mouse a Cookie which I have previously purchased for my older grandchildrem and they have now out-grown. "If you Give a Pig A Party" was purchased for my 2 1/2 year old grandson who loves it! I particularly, love the full circle of the events leading up to the party, finding the friends, then asking for balloons to decorate the blanket fort at the end...when the party finally can happen

Karen Fisher

I loved this book, this was the first If You Give... book I bought for my son and he loves it too. Following this cute pig in story is tons of fun, you decorate the house, and you put on your party dress and call to invite your friends over. Not only is it a good story but there is wonderful illustration and you get to see all the other characters of the If You Give... books. This is a wonderful book, after reading this one to my son I went and bought other If You Give... books.

Living high on the hog. This brings new meaning to those words and that's a good thing. It's not the "gimme gimme" attitude and materialistic lifestyle that makes this little piggy happy, oh no. It's just enjoying life by creating happiness in everything you do while remembering that sharing your heart with others doubles the fun!

If you loved If You Give a Pig a Pancake, you are sure to love this also. Thanks Numeroff and Bond for bringing regular giggle sessions to our happy home.

Soar!

Our first "If you give" book was the "Pancake" title. It was an instant hit with my daughter. We moved on to "Party". It is definitely good and entertaining, but it definitely reads and feels like a spinoff. Where "Pancake" flows out of a single gesture, "Party" feels forced, and just doesn't seem as funny and delightful. Plus, in this book, the pig somehow seems more demanding and selfish than in the Pancake book. Hard to explain unless you read it!

I have to say though, my daughter really loves the "Party" book and has not complained. ;-) She'd probably give it four stars. So if your child is a fan of the other books, you probably can't go wrong with this one. Our next purchase are the "Mouse" and "Moose" ones. Based on the reviews, we are really looking forward to them!

The pig in this book is just like most small children, moving from one whim to another in a the steam of consciousness way that children live their lives. My daughter loves this book. I think it would also be a good read for new parents as well since it shows the constantly changing attention span and imagination that makes childhood so fascinating.

Everyone knows that pigs can be a handful. Which is why it's probably never a good idea to throw a pig a party. For if you give a pig a party, she's bound to want balloons to accompany said party. And, once she's got balloons, she'll, of course, want to decorate the entire house. Then, once the decorating is done, she'll want to get all dolled up - in her favorite dress. And once she's done that, she's going to want to call all of her friends on the phone, and invite them over to celebrate. But if they're not home...well, she'll just have to go out and look for them. Which can only mean trouble.

There is one children's book series that is consistently enjoyable, and that would have to be Laura Numeroff's IF YOU...collection. Each book released from this series tells the tale of a somewhat spoiled animal, be it a moose, mouse, pig, etc. And each one describes the troublesome scenarios that said animal gets themselves into time and time again. The fact that Numeroff's delightful, yet easy-to-understand prose is accompanied by the utterly adorable illustrations of Felicia Bond makes this series even more enjoyable - for both children and their parents. IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PARTY is a delightful addition to the series that will put visions of celebration into each readers head, leaving everyone eager to have a party of their own!

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

We got "If You Give a Pig a Party" for Christmas and wow has it been a hit. My daughter is 4 years old and just fell in love with it. We have read it at nap time and bedtime everyday since Christmas.

I love the little subtleties in this book. For instance, when it mentions how the Pig will put on her favorite party dress, you see that the Pig had put on the little girls dolly's dress. It really captures the essence and imagination of a child in so many ways. My daughter loves to name all the characters she sees when they are on the bumper cars and loves finding them when they all play hide-n-seek.

It's just a very sweetly done book and one book that we will always remember being a part of my daughters young life!

Thank you to the author and illustrator!

This book certainly doesn't disappoint! My kids fall onto the couch laughing everytime we read it. The illustrations are great and they love all the characters together in one book! A definite 'must read'!!!