Being a Pig Is Nice: A Child’s-Eye View of Manners by Sally Lloyd-Jones, illustrated by Dan Krall 2009
Animals don’t have to worry about being polite. They are practically encouraged to misbehave. The young girl in this story guides us through animal habitats so we can see how young creatures are encouraged to behave by their parents. The differences between us and them is comical and endearing.
“When you are an elephant it is polite to splash. Not splashing is Atrocious, Disgraceful Conduct. But flies and all their relations come to live on you when you’re an elephant and that’s not nice.”
This young girl realizes the negatives of being an animal, and the positives of appropriate manners, while using her imagination and making us laugh in the process. The illustrations are bright and dramatic and perfectly match the humor of the text.
Appropriate for ages 4-8
2 comments:
Dear Jenni!
Thank you for being in touch and letting me know.
It's so good to hear about your 5 year old enjoying the book.
that's wonderful--
and thank you too for telling others-- I couldn't do what I'm doing without generous people like you
thank you!
(PS I did a twitter so you should get some traffic to your site)
Sally
Hi Jenni,
That's great! Thanks so much for the email and review. Let me know if you'd
like a print out of one of the pages or something and I can mail you one.
Thanks again! Take care,
Dan
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