Like others in the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading series, Elephant and Piggie metafictively bookend the main narrative with hilariously on-the-nose commentary.
Color-coded speech bubbles (orange for Goat, green for Frog) help match the dialogue with each speaker. Using fewer than 80 repeated words (over 12 of which are prepositions), the clever text instructs, delights, and revels in its own playfulness. In Tsurumi’s first foray into early readers she pares down her energetic, colorful cartoon style to the bare essentials without losing any of the madcap fun. In an act of solidarity, Goat jumps in, too. Eventually, it all gets to be too much for Frog to handle, so Frog falls into the water, resumes position on the lily pad, and declares “I am OVER it” while eating a fly. In addition to on and beside, the pair adds inside, between, under, and more. The competition continues as Frog struggles to mimic overconfident Goat’s antics. After an “Oooh!” and a “You know what?” Frog leaps off their lily pad to balance on a rock: “I’m on it, too!” Goat grabs a prop so that they can be both “on it AND beside it.” (It may take young readers a little bit to realize there are two its.) So does Frog. Goat asks Frog to look at them before declaring “I’m ON it!” while balancing atop a tree stump near a pond. 4-8)Ī frog tries to do everything a goat does, too. Parents beware: there are a lot of “magic” words kids will have to try out before getting to “please,” and if you see a walrus, run! (Picture book. Parsley’s digital illustrations are the stuff of kids’ wildest dreams-roller coasters and water slides, a pet elephant-and facial expressions and body language masterfully convey emotion, especially the devious scene in which the white, teenage babysitter starts to count to three, Paxton hiding in the corner with his forbidden snack, eyebrow cocked evilly as he asks for that walrus.
But what magic word can make it all right again? It’s not hard to guess. Eventually, the novelty of being able to do whatever he wants pales next to untucked bed sheets and no partner for a game of Go Fish. Before too long, Paxton’s house is a veritable utopia of play with everything a young boy could want, except parents or a best friend, who all got the walrus treatment. Not one to let this opportunity pass him by, Paxton asks for another cookie…and a glass of milk…and a walrus that will chase his annoyed and demanding babysitter to the North Pole. Paxton doesn’t know why he does it, but one night, instead of using the expected magic word to get a cookie, the little white boy says, “Can I have a cookie, / ALAKAZOOMBA?” Magically, a cookie appears in his hand.
The magic word by mac barnett cracked#
Getting everything you want isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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