If You Give a Pig a Pancake
 | If You Give...By Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond HarperCollins, 1998, Hardcover Customer Rating: 74 reviews Recommend |
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The popular picture book about an energetic and demanding little pig and an accommodating little girl is now available in a miniature hardcover edition accompanied by an adorable plush velour pig doll. Standing seven inches tall, this irresistible doll features shiny black tap shoes and a bright multicolored scarf, just like in the book. She even comes complete with her own detachable pancake, but watch out'if you give a pig a pancake . . .
If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want syrup to go with it. You'll give her some of your favorite maple syrup. She'll probably get all sticky, so she'll want to take a bath. She'll ask you for some bubbles. When you give her the bubbles . . .Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond have done it again! As in their mega-sellers If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin, chaos is the order of the day when an accommodating little girl tries to keep up with the whims of a bossy little pig.
"If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it. You'll give her some of your favorite maple syrup. She'll probably get all sticky, so she'll want to take a bath." You get the idea. Baths lead to bubbles, bubbles lead to rubber ducks, rubber ducks lead to wanting a trip to the farm. If You Give a Pig a Pancake is a delightful exploration of the scenario "if you give an inch, they'll take a mile." But who could refuse the whims of this adorable piglet? Not us, and certainly not the pig's young caretaker. Parents will feel a familiar twinge as they witness the pig's increasingly elaborate demands, and kids will be delighted that the story circles back around to the original pancake. Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond — well-loved creators of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin — succeed again in concocting a marvelously skewed study of cause and effect that inevitably results in a riotous read-aloud. Your kids will ask for this book again and again, and you won't want to refuse. (Ages 4 to 8) — Karin Snelson
Title: If You Give a Pig a Pancake (If You Give...)
Sales Rank: 15551 in Books
Author: Laura Numeroff
Creator: Felicia Bond
Publisher: HarperCollins, 1st edition, 1998-05-31, Hardcover, 32 pages, ISBN: 0060266864
Item Dimensions: 3 pounds
Package Dimensions: 9.31 x 8.3 x 0.42 inches, 0.61 pounds
- A Sticky Situation
- If You Give A Pig A Pancake
By Laura Numeroff
Illustrated by Felicia Bond
"If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it."
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- This book is adorable. I love the clever way the author meshed the whims of the little girl with the piglet. Very clever and cute.
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- It's for the kids stupid!
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