Puppies and Piggies [Hardcover]

Cynthia Rylant (Author), Ivan Bates (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Join a sneaky puppy for a joyous barnyard jaunt, and meet the many adorable babies spring has brought to a farm. There are ponies and puppies, piggies and duckies. And whether it's munching or snoozing, hiding or playing, they're all busy doing the things they love best.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A farmyard's worth of animals smile their way through this rhyming poem cum bedtime book about what makes each one of them happy. Rylant (Baby Face, reviewed above) starts off with brisk, chirpy lines: "Kitty loves a garden/ Kitty loves a rose./ Kitty loves to walk up high/ On her kitty toes." Working in watercolors and wax crayons, in panels and vignettes, Bates (Farmer Dale's Red Pickup Truck) animates the verse with an unapologetically anthropomorphized cast of creatures: his Bunny lounges against a gardener's workbasket as it snacks on lettuce leaves; his Mousey clasps pretty leaves in its paws as it gazes, enthralled, at a ladybug overhead. It's almost as if a particularly cute stuffed-animal collection had been the models. The tempo slows down a little as the woman seen gardening earlier reappears, now indoors and holding a smiling baby: "Baby loves his mama, who will/ Kiss his sleepy head." By the last page, the baby sleeps ensconced in his crib, with all the beaming animals arrayed in the window and along the sill: Chickie on Piggy's head, Mousey next to Kitty and so forth. A good choice for those who like their bedtime books served sunny-side-up. Ages 3-5. (Mar.) (Publishers Weekly )

About the Author

CYNTHIA RYLANT is the author of more than a hundred books for young people, and her novel Missing May received the Newbery Medal. She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

IVAN BATES is the illustrator of Just You and Me and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by Sam McBratney. He lives in England.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books; Library Binding edition (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152023216
• ISBN-13: 978-0152023218
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 11.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,203,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cynthia Rylant is the author of numerous distinguished novels and picture books for young readers. In addition to her beginning-reader series: Henry and Mudge, Poppleton, and Mr. Putter and Tabby, as well as her Cobble Street Cousins early-chapter series, she is also the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Missing May, the Newbery Honor Book A Fine White Dust, and two Caldecott Honor-winning picture books.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charming, February 10, 2009

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Kat "bookworm" (Utah USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puppies and Piggies (Hardcover)

This is a great bed time story. Enjoyable for years to come. The words and pictures are simple and lovely. It has been re-read many times.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great night time story!, October 20, 2008

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CE DOMBROWSKI "Mommy D, CA" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puppies and Piggies (Hardcover)

I checked this book out at the library and my daughter who's almost 4 loooves.... this book. It has not become of her all time favorites. I agree this book is easy to read and the pictures are engaging.