Tuesday, July 29, 2008

2008 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award



There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems

Elephant and Piggie are taking a nap. When all of a sudden, a bird lands on Elephant's head. Piggie confirms to Elephant that indeed he does have a bird on his head. Elephant is not happy. All of a sudden, there are now two lovebirds on his head and are building a nest. Again Piggie confirms that now he has two birds, a nest, and three eggs on his head. The eggs hatch and instead of thee eggs their are now three baby chicks. Elephant kindly asks them to go somewhere else. The birds agree and they land on pigs head. This is a funny story of two friends trying to deal with a unique situation. I read it to my children and they loved it. The illustrations are colorful and the expressions are so realistic to what the characters are feeling. I would highly recommend this book to primary grades and reluctant readers. It could be used in a read aloud as an introduction to punctuation.

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