The Cookie Fiasco (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! #1)

by Mo Willems (Author) Dan Santat (Illustrator)

The Cookie Fiasco (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! #1)
"There are only three cookies and four hungry friends to share them with. This is not good. This is not equal!"--
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Kirkus

In the end it’s a morality tale that may not be worth raiding the cookie jar for.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 2--In this book within a book, readers are greeted by Elephant and Piggie, who are ready to share "some of their favorite books" with readers. Santat tackles the subject of division in a way that young kids will relate to--figuring out how to split up cookies fairly. The characters include a nervous purple hippo, a crocodile, a squirrel with pigtails, and a blue squirrel with glasses. They have a problem. There are four of them and only three cookies. How will they divide them up equally? Maybe the two squirrels should share one. Hippo suggests they share by size, but the crocodile protests, "WAIT! You are HUGE! You would get all the cookies!" Finally, a happy accident presents the solution. Those looking for "Elephant & Piggie" read-alikes will not be disappointed. The story is similarly told entirely in speech bubbles. The emotions of the characters are effectively conveyed through these speech bubbles, which change in size to express excitement and frustration, and the comic-style illustrations, which add dramatic appeal and humor. The language is more complex than most beginning reader texts, but kids won't mind. VERDICT With fun new characters and cameo appearances by Elephant and Piggie, this title is sure to be a hit with beginning readers. Libraries should be prepared for this one to fly off the shelves.--Kimberly Tolson, Medfield Public Library, MA

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Publishers Weekly

Three cookies + four friends = a big problem in Caldecott Medalist Santat's (The Adventures of Beekle) entertaining contribution to the new Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series of beginning readers. "Hey, guys! Cookie time!" booms an enormous purple hippo, setting in motion a real-time story problem when his friends, a crocodile and a pair of squirrels, realize that there aren't enough cookies to go around. As the animals argue, Hippo starts nervously breaking the cookies into pieces, ushering in a fresh round of outrage ("Hippo! What are you doing?" screams one of the squirrels in shocked disbelief) but also leading to a fractions-based solution that ensures that everyone gets his or her fair share of chocolate chip goodness. Angular speech balloons and all-caps exclamations work neatly with Santat's ever-energetic artwork to amplify the fraught emotions at play; in a nifty visual touch, the characters' imagined solutions to their dilemma are pictured using sculpted figurines that appear in thought bubbles. Creating an introduction to the concepts of factors, fractions--and sharing--that's this much fun isn't easy, but Santat is more than up to the task. Ages 6-8. (Sept.)

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Mo Willems
Mo Willems is a six-time Emmy Award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Streetand the creator of Cartoon Network's Sheep in the BigCity. He is the author of groundbreaking picture books, including; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Caldecott Honor winner 2004); Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Caldecott Honor winner 2003); Don't Let the Pigeon Stay up Late!; The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!; Time to Say "Please"!; Leonardo, the Terrible Monster; and Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct. Mo lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781484726365
Lexile Measure
290
Guided Reading Level
H
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Publication date
September 20, 2016
Series
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV039220 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Values & Virtues
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Friendship
Animals
Friendship in children
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
Sharing
Cookies
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Values & V
Division
JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / General
Sharing in children

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