I Know A Wee Piggy
by:
Henry Cole (author)
Kim Norman (author)
A clever, colorful read-aloud in the tradition of I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a FlyA fun day at the fair becomes color chaos when one boy's energetic pig gets loose. Upside down, piggy wallows in brown, but that's only the beginning of this cumulative, rhyming text. Soon, he's adding a rinse...
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A clever, colorful read-aloud in the tradition of I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a FlyA fun day at the fair becomes color chaos when one boy's energetic pig gets loose. Upside down, piggy wallows in brown, but that's only the beginning of this cumulative, rhyming text. Soon, he's adding a rinse of red (tomatoes), a wash of white (milk), a pinch of pink (cotton candy), and many more. Can piggy be caught before he turns the whole fair upside down?With exuberant art by Henry Cole, this wild pig chase is a natural choice for teaching colors and begs to be read aloud.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780803737358 (0803737351)
Publish date: June 14th 2012
Publisher: Dial
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Cartoony illustrations keep this story whimsical. It follows the cumulative "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" pattern, without the big ending. Cole and Norman showed restraint in keeping the pig from washing off all the evidence in the water at the end. A couple of pages leave interesting clu...
"I Know a Wee Piggy" by Kim Norman and illustrated by Henry Cole is a take-off on "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." A really cute take-off.Young children will love this version based on a piggy escaping at the county fair and running through different colors.The illustrations are bright and ...
A wild, zany, fun book for introducing young children to colors.
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