I Love My New Toy!-an Elephant and Piggie Book

Name: I Love My New Toy!-an Elephant and Piggie Book
ISBN: 9781423109617

Mo Willems

Disney Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 3, 2008

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Beginner Readers Elephant Stories Pig Stories series

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Who it’s for: A careful elephant and an exuberant pig make toy trouble feel like a friendship-sized question.
Themes: Friendship, Accidental breakage
Genres: Beginner Readers, Elephant Stories, Pig Stories

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About this book

Mo Willems, award-winning, New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Unlimited Squirrels, presents best friends Elephant Gerald and Piggie. 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 I Love My New Toy!, Piggie can't wait to show Gerald her brand new toy. But will an accidentally broken toy accidentally break a friendship?

Read all of Elephant Gerald and Piggie’s adventures! · Today I Will Fly! · My Friend is Sad · I Am Invited to a Party! · There is a Bird on Your Head! · I Love My New Toy! · I Will Surprise My Friend! · Are You Ready to Play Outside? · Watch Me Throw the Ball! · Elephants Cannot Dance! · Pigs Make Me Sneeze! · I Am Going! · Can I Play Too? · We Are in a Book! · I Broke My Trunk! · Should I Share My Ice Cream? · Let’s Go for a Drive! · Happy Pig Day! · Listen to My Trumpet! · A Big Guy Took My Ball! · I’m a Frog! · My New Friend is So Fun! · Waiting is Not Easy! · I Will Take a Nap! · I Really Like Slop! · The Thank You Book

Best-Friend Comedy

A careful elephant and an exuberant pig make toy trouble feel like a friendship-sized question.

Come here for

Warm humor in the contrast between careful Gerald and smiling Piggie
A small mishap with friendship on the line

Expect

A playful focus on two best friends
Toy trouble, with the friendship question left hanging

Where it sits

Pig Stories	68%
Elephant Stories	36%
Beginner Readers	30%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

Elephant Stories
Pig Stories
Funny Stories

Authors: Mo Willems
Publisher: Disney Publishing Group
Published: June 3, 2008
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Friendship · Accidental breakage
Reading lane: Elephant Stories