An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Volume 4

by Mo Willems

From award-winning, best-selling author and illustrator Mo Willems comes a bind-up of five Elephant & Piggie adventures that celebrate friendship.




This bind-up includes the My Friend is Sad ; I Love My New Toy! ; Pigs Make Me Sneeze! ; A Big Guy Took My Ball! ; and My New Friend is So Fun!

Genres: Childrens

320 pages, Hardcover

Published September 21, 2021

About the author

#1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale.

In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91.

The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's."

Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation.

Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.

Reviews

[Asho · Rating 4 out of 5]

L (7) is right on the verge of becoming a fluent reader and she has been seeking out Elephant and Piggie books at the library lately. She and I read this one together over the course of several bedtimes. It's a perfect way to practice reading in a no-stress manner because she reads one character's words and I read the other's. She finds Elephant and Piggie very amusing and the text is truly simple enough for a beginning reader (unlike other series which I find are frustratingly challenging for her even though they claim to be Level 1/Easy books).

[Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun Elephant and Piggie set of stories!!! My 4-year-old daughter loves these, and we had never read 4 of the 5 until now. Great work Mo Willems!

[Mills College Library]

Early Reader W699b v.4

[Tia · Rating 5 out of 5]

All of Elephant & Piggie books are great and my grandkids love them.

[Kim Hampton · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 great books in one!

[James Devore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another smash!

[PottWab Regional Library]

SM

[Ryleigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good thing Elephant stayed friends with Piggie,because that was close!

[Common Box · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a vivid memory of reading an Elephant and Piggie book in Barnes and Noble at around the age of seven. I laughed so loud I was actually shushed, like in the cartoons. My ten-year-old kid brother adores these books. All five "Biggies" are stacked on top of each other near his bed. The pages are a little bent in some places from the excessive turning.

These books, like their Pigeon predecessors, are clean, wholesome, funny, and just plain adorable. I'm glad we have such an excellent author/illustrator in the business of children's picture books, because there is some weird stuff out there, let me tell you.
Honestly, I read Stephen King and still enjoy these things. Gerald and Piggie are such sweet friends.
My kid brother knows the books in the first and second "Biggies" by heart, and is currently memorizing this one and the others.

Thank you, Mr. Willems.

[Julianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I read these books,I'm really happy 😊. Piggie is really happy and Gerald is the funny one 😄