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57 pp.
| Disney/Hyperion |
October, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4847-2262-6$9.99
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K-3Elephant & Piggie Book series.
Piggie wants her elephant friend, Gerald, to try her favorite food (slop), which is spicy and tastes like old shoes. Gerald, though disgusted, tastes it out of friendship. The back-and-forth dialogue, presented through smoothly incorporated speech bubbles, uses easy words and varying font sizes to aid emerging readers. The illustrations selectively expand the color palette to humorous effect, conveying slop's strong taste.