There Is a Bird On Your Head! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) (Hardcover)

by Mo Willems (Author, Illustrator)

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Product Description

Best-selling picture book creator Mo Willems continues his charming Elephant and Piggie first reader series.  

 

The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (and sometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant.  Children who sat on their parents' laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.  Each book has been vetted by an early learning specialist.  These sweet and surprising stories are a much-needed breath of fresh air in the early reader arena.  

In There Is a Bird On My Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-two birds on your head!  Can Piggie help her best friend?

 

About the Author
Mo Willems is the author of best-selling picture books. In his previous career as a television writer and animator, Mo won six Emmy Awards for his work on Sesame Street and created Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City. Mo lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (July 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423106865
• ISBN-13: 978-1423106869
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,413 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Winner for My Avid Read Constantly (Just Not Books) Son, October 4, 2007

By	Julie Jordan Scott "Writer, Life Coach - Owne... (Bakersfield, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

My little boy reads everything with words on it... except, ofcourse, for books. He usually yells at me when I have the audacity to suggest we sit down and cuddle and read but this book was different.

It was my first time reading anything by Mo Willems so I had no preconceived notions. What I found was very funny text on clean, simply illustrated pages without too many words on each page. YES!

My six-year-old son has been reading (self taught) since he was four, but normally there is too much stuff going on in books with lots of detailed, color spread pages. This title had the perfect balance of white space without too many words and an enjoyable story that didn't talk down to a child who favors this style of book.

I have never had him sit there and read through a whole book for me. He read this entire book and would have read it again. It felt like a miracle.

Perhaps it was.

Mo Willems, you have my heart. Sam and I will read more of your books!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun to read!, September 1, 2007

By	M. Noll (Moscow PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There Is a Bird On Your Head! is my son's favorite of the Elephant and Piggie books! This whole series is great fun... my son loves the expressions on the faces of both characters. And, more importantly, HE wants to do the reading at bedtime because he has fun trying to match his reading to the expressions from the faces. And, we love looking for Pigeon on the back covers! I wish there were more of these books!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for new readers !!!, November 29, 2007

By	liz b. "liz b." (MA) - See all my reviews

My first grader (who's been struggling with reading in general and lacking motivation) just read this book aloud to me and her little brother at bedtime and they were both laughing hysterically at the end. We'd taken the 4 books in this series out of the library, and when I suggested it was time for bed she literally begged me to read the other 3 RIGHT NOW, which we did.
Few things make a parent prouder than hearing your child learn to read, except maybe when they finally get excited about it!
We are all now Mo Willems fans!