If You Give a Pig a Pancake

This book is perfect for teaching cause and effect to young children. IF you do ___, then ___ will happen. Since there is very little plot to the story this book contains sequencing of events and simple sentences. There is no great introduction to the story, it just begins with : "If you give a pig

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a pancake".

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This is a cause and effect book. It starts off as "if you give a pig a pancake"..... something will happen and so on.

This is another if you give a... story about a funny animal that keeps wanting new things when they get something else. In this story it starts with giving a pig a pancake. These stories are good for entertainment, and most kids think they are funny.

This book is a fantasy because the pig is talking, dancing, and acting like a human.
The style of this book is very effective. The if-then statements that drive the book draw in the reader and keep them wondering what the pig will ask for next.
Media: Colored pencil

I enjoy the "If you give a..." series, all of the books have a similar rhythm and sense of repetition. These books are fun to read aloud to children but do not hold a lot of value on their own in content or character development or plot. These books are cute and the animal characters are lovable

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but they lack depth.

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A fantastical story about an accommodating little girl and a willful pig. The story is ingenious as it subtly conveys a few lessons. One is greed: the pig is quite a consumer of things and activities. Another is the cause and effect chain of actions that lead to the next. The art is wonderful and

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reminiscent in some ways of Dr. Seuss although completely modernized. Very amusing and attentive.

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One of the best children's books ever. Very funny, creative, cute illustrations, and incredibly original. Two thumbs up!!

I liked this book. I liked part of it, but I didn't like the other part. I liked it when that girl gave the pancake. I didn't like when she was feeling homesick. I think you should read it.

This is a very cute book! I love how it demonstrates how something that seems so simple can turn into something so complicated! Kids and adults alike can't help but love that adorable little pig!!

Cute story! it goes along with a series. Just a fun story to read!

The pig eats pancakes, he wants syrup, gets sticky and needs a bath. The bath leads to toys, a search leads to tap shoes which leads to dancing. After dancing, he wants a picture, and to write friends, on the way to the post office, he finds a tree that needs a tree house. Decorating the tree house

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makes him sticky that reminds him of the syrup, making him want a pancake.

This is a good picture book that runs the story into a loop. The loop show consequences to actions taken and how one thing leads to another. This is a good series for the purpose of showing how the things we do effect so many other things in our lives. Easy read for a quick story with a moral and the kids enjoy all the trouble the pig finds to get into.

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I think that this book is very cute. This same author also writes "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" which is another very cute book. I think that this book is very funny and would be a good one to read in small group to the children. I would read this to a kindergarten class because it is really not

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too difficult to comprhend.

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Another in the series. Wonderful illustrations and funny story line.

This is a good example of modern fantasy because the pig in the story can talk and is doing things that humans would do such as eating pancakes, dancing, taking pictures, building a tree house, etc. Even though a pig could never do these things, the author still puts some truth in it, such as the

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pig visiting her family at the farm, so that we can understand it and so that we can relate to the pig better. The plot is both repitive and climatic. After we are introduced to the pig, we learn that the pig has a conflict in that every time she gets something, she wants something else and so she goes on a quest to achieve that other thing. We think the problem is resolved, but then the conflict gets repeated in that she wants something else.
Media: The illustrations look like pen and ink and colored ink.

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This is my favorite book in this series. It is great for interactive writing and I would defiantly use this book in my classroom as a read aloud. I like that this book is about a girl, where the book about the mouse is about a boy. I would try to read both in the same day or at least the same week.

This book is a modern fantasy about a little pig who likes pancakes. Pancakes make her want syrup, which makes her sticky and makes her need a bath. Each thing she does reminds her of something else and keeps going until it comes back to syrup which, of course, makes her want a pancake.

This is a

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delightfully silly book for me that I enjoy reading over and over again, with or without children. The little pig is much like my daughter when she was a young child. She had a very short attention span and it seemed like each thing she did made her think of a new toy or adventure.

With this book, students could use their imaginations to explore the associations between one object and another. By starting with a tree, one student might associate it with a treehouse and the next students might associate a treehouse with summer and so on. Another extension could be to have students look at a group of pictures and find the ones that go together.

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I thought that this book was very cute. The illustrations were fun to look at, and while there was only a small amount of text, it just framed the pictures well. The ending of the story brings the reader back to what was happening at the beginning of the story, so that was one more thing that added

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to the interest.

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This story is about the many adventures you can have after you simply give a pig a pancake. If you give a pig a pancake then it will remind the pig of the many things it wants to do. It becomes a chaos as a little girl tries to accommodate to the little pig and all it wants to do. The pictures in

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this book really give children a chance to figure out the text before it is read to them.

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'If You Give a Pig a Pancake' by Laura Numeroff tells of the mess that a pig creates if you continue to give her what she wants. If you give a pig a pancake he will want syrup to go with that pancake, and the story continues to tell of all the things the pig will want. The pig creates a mess in the

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closet while looking for a suitcase and wants to build a treehouse. By the end of the story the pig is right back to wanting a pancake again. This story is an easy read and is best for grades K-3.

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Critique
Genre: This is a good example of a fantasy because it could happen in a world similar to earth, but the elements of the pig are unrealisitc. The story contains personification, where the pig has life-like qualities, even though it is not human, making the story a fantasy.
Plot: The plot of

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the story advances by continuously giving the pig what it asks for. It does not really have a climax but has an ongoing conflict of trying to give the pig what it wants, while each thing forces her to want another thing. The resolution ties the story back to the beginning again rather than creating a solution. Instead, the pig will want a pancake again which will start the whole cycle over again.
Media: Colored pencils

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This is a cute book with great illustrations. This book is about a pig who asks for a pancake and that leads him to asking for syrup, a bath, a treehouse, etc. This book doesn't have too many educational purposes but would be a fun book to read during free time. You could also discuss with students

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if the pig is being polite. This could create a short lesson on being polite when you are a visitor at someone else's house. I think all students around the kindergarten age would love this book.

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Reading Level 2.5

This is another cute book like "if you give a moose a muffin." The pig just wants and wants and get distracted by everything around him. It will keep kids laughing and wonderding what the pig will think of next. I like how the story always comes back to the beginning, or in each

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case, the title of wanting a pancake.

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This is a book about what happens when you give a pig a pancake. One thing keeps leading to another as soon as the pig gets the pancake he asks for syrup, and gets sticky and then asks for a bath, and then wants bubbles and a rubber duck. It keeps going on until the end when the pig gets all sticky

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again and is reminded of the syrup on the pancake and then wants another one.

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If You Give a Pig a Pancake is a funny book about what happens next if you give a pig a pancake. The short story takes you through all of the whimsical adventures of a pig and his friend.

I had always heard of this book until one day, several years ago I read it to my class. This is one of those

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books that has to be read several times because you cannot just read it once.

Children love this book and love to recite it along with the story teller. This book would be a good way to introduce learning about different animals. You could do a theme day or week with pigs for K-2nd using this book.

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