#19- If You Give a Pig a Party

If You Give a Pig a Party

Written by: Laura Numeroff

Illustrated by: Felicia Bond

Harper Collins

2005

27 pages

Fantasy

In this book there is a pig that has a party. The pig asks for some balloons because she wants to decorate. When all the decorations are hung she puts on her dress. Then she calls to invite her friends to the party but she cannot get them so she goes out to look. While she is out she sees a street fair and decides to go. The pig loves the bumper cars so she goes there and finds all her friends. After that they all have ice cream and get messy so they need to change clothes. Once they get home they eat dinner and have a sleepover.

The illustrations by Felicia Bonds are cartoon-like. The line of the book is diagonal. It looks like the medium that Bond uses is water color and color pencils to create her illustrations. The colors used in this book are bright colors that go along with the party theme of the book. The text is informally placed around the pictures.

This book would be appropriate for students ages three to seven. This book would be ideal to use if you were teaching your students sequencing. In this book every event leads to another. This would be simple for the students to comprehend in kindergarten. You could also teach about pigs. This book doesn’t have what pigs usually do because it is a fantasy. It would be a way to get students curious about pigs. Another way this book could be used is by teaching students about fiction and non-fiction. This book has received the award for the 2006 Quill Award. It is easy to see by her work that she is a talented author.