Today I Will Fly!
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Walker
One of a series of delightfully humorous award-winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator.
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Today I will Fly! Piggie wants to fly. But Gerald knows that she cannot – or can she? Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases, this highly original book is perfect for children just learning to read.
Creators
Mo Willems is the author of the Caldecott Honor winning books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny and Knuffle Bunny Too. An acclaimed animator and television script-writer, he has won six Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, and is also the creator of Sheep in the Big City. Mo lives with his family in Massachusetts.
Reviews
Delightful for sharing with a little one, especially if you ask them to predict what each might say using the expressive illustrations as clues (thus building their understanding that the words and pictures are integral to each other and essential for the whole), they also enable the little one to tell themselves the story.
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