Sunday, July 20, 2008

Winner of the 2008 Geisel



There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Williams

I really enjoyed this little story about an elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie. They are two best friends (one is careful and the other is not) that are just taking a nap and then a bird lands on the Gerald’s head. After some time another bird lands on his head and then they start making a nest. Gerald gets worried and tries to get Piggie to help him get rid of the birds, nest and after some time three eggs. After the eggs hatch, Gerald begins to lose it and asks Piggie what to do, to help his friend out Piggie suggests that Gerald just ask the family to move off of his head. Gerald tries it and the family of birds happily lands their nest on Piggie's head solving Gerald’s problem but adding it to Piggie. This was a cute little story that my son really enjoyed reading as well. I enjoyed the color scheme of the text especially to help the reader know that if the text was shaded grey Gerald was talking and if it was shaded pink then Piggie was talking. It is also a story about friendship.

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