Thursday, July 24, 2008

2008 Geisel Award

There is a Bird on your Head by Mo Willems

We are now introduced to an elephant and Piggie. Gerald, the elephant, keeps having his head used by birds for landing and Piggie tries to help the problem. First a bird has landed on Gerald’s head and has decided to make its nest on his head. Now Gerald has two birds, a nest, and three eggs on his head. After the eggs have hatched they decide to tell the birds they have to move. Unfortunately, the birds relocate on Piggie’s head. What a funny story. My daughter's loved this story. The illustrations were wonderful to look at. My youngest daughter is still to understand what might be happening in a story but the illustrations in this picture book clearly led her to understand what was happening to Gerald, and then later what happened to Piggie. It was awesome but of course I wouldn't expect anything less from Mo Williams.

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