World Famous Comics: There Is a Bird On Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie)
There Is a Bird On Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie)
From: Hyperion Book CH Publisher: Hyperion Book CH Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Hyperion Book CH Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 64 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Release Date: July 31, 2007
Product Description: In There is a Bird on Your 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?
Mo Willems should be declared a National Treasure! Mo Willems is a genius. These books work like a classic Warner Brothers cartoon; working on two levels simultaneously. There's simple sight-gag humor for the kids; and sly, subtle humor for the grownups. The sparse but extremely expressive artwork is a joy to behold and study. My 4 year old daughter encounterd this book in a library while on vacation this summer. We all find the book and all the others in the series to be excruciatingly funny! We read the books aloud; I play Gerald, and my daughter plays Piggie. (I also do any other minor characters) We read the dialogue in a huge, over-the-top, melodramatic fashion, doing our best Mel Blanc/Daws Butler impressions, and act out the physical bits where we can... She just dissolves into fits of hysterical laughter... We have all of the Piggie books now, and several of the "Pigeon" series too. I cannot recommend the works of Mo Willems highly enough!
Another great book, by a great author.... One of my daughter's favorites and mine. It's great for laughs and pre-school kids will love it! I'm a huge fan of Mo Willems and of course this is a hit in our home, 5 STARS!!
Toddler (and mom) Love it! My 3.5yo daughter absolutely loves this book. She will recite a line from it to me and we'll go back and forth "playing out" the story. I just mention "there's a bird on your head!" and she will fall into fits of giggles.
My 2yo son was not as interested (though if it doesn't have construction trucks or diggers, etc, he's not interested either). I think as he gets older he will appreciate the humor and story.
Cute story & I bought more based on the success of this one. I recommend to my friends w/similar aged kids.
Great book for daughter and mom I bought this book based on the reviews of others. My daughter is 1½ and since we live abroad, I am trying to encourage her English skills and the book sounded funny.
She loves this book and can now count to three and say "hatching", although I am not quite sure how handy THAT word comes in...:-) The book is always read at least three times and I enjoy it as much as she does - I can highly recommend this book.
A great book for reluctant "new readers" My son is in second grade, does not like to read. Does not want to. This book "read itself". The repetitions were not tedious, and the story made him laugh out loud ---and me too. He liked it so much, he made pictures of a little boy with a bird on his head, he put a bird beanie baby when he walked in to his classroom and told the teacher "there is a bird on my head"! From this one, he was willing to read the other elephant and piggie, then more books.
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