My New Friend Is So Fun! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) (Elephant and Piggie Book, An)

This book falls into the series of the Elephant and Piggie, where the book “Waiting” is from. The characters and type of illustrations are all the same. The illustrations are very bland but the text is told from speech bubbles, which spices up the book. I also really enjoyed the message of the

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book because it was about friendship and learning how to deal with jealousy. The elephant is jealous that the pig has been hanging out with the pig’s new mouse friend. I think young students would find these books from these series entertaining because they are silly and the main characters do things that humans do. I think this book is also cute because you would never think an elephant and a pig would be friends.

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Gr K-2, Piggie got a new friend, and Gerald isn't exactly sure this is a great idea. What if Piggie and Bat are having too much fun together?! What if Gerald is no longer Piggie’s best friend?! Will Piggie need Gerald anymore? Will Brian need Snake anymore? Told in Mo Willems’ simplistic style

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with conversation bubbles readers are able to easily identify who is talking, along with the emotions of each character. For this reasoning, the Elephant and Piggie series are a great read for beginning readers. Young readers will see that finding a new friend doesn't mean old ones are lost.

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Elephant and Snake were talking about Piggie and Brian Bat. Elephant and Piggie are best friends. Snake and Brian Bat are best friends. Elephant and Snake become suspicious that Piggie and Brian Bat are having too much fun together, and begin to wonder that perhaps if Piggie and Brian Bat have too

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much fun, they won't be needed anymore! Elephant and Snake rush over to Piggie and Brian Bat, hoping that they can repair their friendship. However, they find out almost immediately that Brian Bat and Piggie drew pictures of ELEPHANT AND SNAKE, and that they are their best friends still. Elephant and Snake realized that they overreacted, and are relieved!

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Piggie and Gerald learn that new friends doesn't mean they have to break their friendship. It is a great read-aloud that teaches students the value of friendships and how jealousy can change a relationship. I liked to use it as the main idea/overall theme during my read-aloud. It was an easy

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instruction on reading with expression as well. Very funny too!

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Oh dear. Competition to be the 'best' friend? I don't think that's cool. I'd much rather see the lesson made clear that *everyone* can be friends together.

Reread 14 months later ... must've been in a bad mood the time I reacted as above ... it's fine, especially if you look at the end papers (which

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of course you must always do with E&P books to find Pigeon) ... gave it another star.

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I have slight reservations about this elephant and piggie book since it's "on insecurities"; Gerald and Snake are worried that Piggie and Brian Bat won't want to be their friends anymore since they are having so much fun with each other. Which is totally psychologically real for ten-year-olds, or

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even fourteen-year-olds--I can remember that deep desire to introduce my two friends in whom I was so emotionally invested to each other and have them have so much fun combined with the imperfectly sublimated dread that they would have too much fun--but this is a book for toddlers, man.

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As my daughter said when we had to take it back to the library: I wish we could read it ten times more!

It can be easy to be jealous of other people who seem to be having more fun than you.