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Jillian Jiggs
"Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs! It looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!" In the first of award-winning author and illustrator Phoebe Gilman's delicious Jillian Jiggs books, this absolutely irrepressible youngster tries again and again and again to set her mind to cleaning up her very messy room. She promises her mother that she'll clean up just as soon as she'...more
Paperback, 36 pages
Published
July 1st 1988
by Scholastic
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this is a great story, both to read out loud and to read alone. it’s about a girl whose mother wants her to clean her room, but her friends come over and they end up playing instead. her mother tells her a few times to go clean her room and she seemingly goes to do it, but she takes her friends with her, as well as her baby sister, and they get distracted by their imaginations, so we get to see them pretending to be a bunch of different things. at the end though her mother puts her foot down and...more
Favorite Book! This is the book that my dad used to read to me when I was a little girl over and over again.
The pictures are life like from the people to the household items seen through out the pages. There is great color and each picture is framed, creating the illusion that a person is looking at a photo album.
The rhyming of the last word of every line with the previous line adds a rhythm to the book.
Also, I love the fact that this book takes four lines and repeats it enough that they stic...more
The pictures are life like from the people to the household items seen through out the pages. There is great color and each picture is framed, creating the illusion that a person is looking at a photo album.
The rhyming of the last word of every line with the previous line adds a rhythm to the book.
Also, I love the fact that this book takes four lines and repeats it enough that they stic...more
Great story! I could sit and read Jillian Jiggs all day! Jillian being too busy engaged in her imaginary play to clean her room tickles my funny bone and makes me giggle. I'm not much of a tidy upper myself; I'm too busy reading! And this is the great thing about Jillian Jiggs, the rhymes draw you in, but the stories are ones adults and kids alike can relate to. I will always read Jillian Jiggs to my students! They never protest :)
I loved this book so much I actually don't know how it ends because in my very early youth I ripped the last few pages out. Now my niece and nephew love it too (and they don't know the ending either - it's the same copy!) The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and the rhyming is very catchy. This is a kids bookshelf staple and I can't for the life of me understand why it hasn't retained its popularity.
Really 4.5. Adorable, thoughtful illustrations (I love looking for Jillian's little sister tagging along), creative, hilarious rhyming with an almost musical quality, and an imaginative, potentially trouble-making heroine all combine into a gorgeous package and very entertaining read. This book (and the subsequent series, really) was a favorite when I was young, and stands the test of time.
The illustrations of this book are so fun. They are so interesting and colorful, they never get boring to look at.
Even though Jillian may make messes every once in a while, I dare you not to fall in love with her spunky character and her creative imagination.
My Grandma gave me this book as a gift when I was young and I had it memorized in a week!
Even though Jillian may make messes every once in a while, I dare you not to fall in love with her spunky character and her creative imagination.
My Grandma gave me this book as a gift when I was young and I had it memorized in a week!
my daughter loves the jillian jiggs books--the engaging illustrations, the rhyming text, the simple and funny stories. as the parent of a daughter, i appreciate that these stories feature an active, creative, kindhearted girl who is a leader amongst her peers.
Another favorite as a child, and maybe still now as my room is almost never clean (any other room in the house I can clean but its that darn bedroom that gets me every time!). A funny and creative book filled with childish imagination.
Mar 03, 2009
Jillian McAdams
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Children's lit lovers, artsy people, ladies named Jillian
One of my all time favorite books growing up. Not only because the main character and I share the same name, the stories are great, the illustrations are beautiful and I love Jillian's imagination.
One of my childhood favorites! So fun and so creative! The illustrations and writing are wonderful!
29 month - picked this up on our trip home to Canada. I like to find Canadian authors when I can and this one seemed a good choice as O and Jillian are very similar... Creative and messy. :D. This has a good rhyme, is cute and funny.
Something I remembered from my own childhood, hope the nephews like it as much as I did.
I STILL know this book by heart, and I probably received it over 20 years ago. A favorite book of children who know how fun it is to play and *not* so much fun to clean up after playing. Phoebe Gillman does a fabulous job with the rhymes, "Jillian's mother came in with her mop, took one look around, and... fainted KERPLOP!" (How cute is that?!) And it's another one of those books that has fabulous illustrations, a captivating story, and super-fun rhymes. I love reading this over and over and ove...more
My absolute favorite book as a kid!!!
Jul 09, 2012
Courtney
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Classic Children's Book
Good friends, good intentions and an unstoppable stream of creativity: this infectiously upbeat tale of disarray, distraction and blissful disobedience makes us glad we chose the adventure that is family life. We can’t imagine a childhood without it.
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You can listen in on our chat about this book on our Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast.
Dec 31, 2007
Caiti
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes a fun picture book
Shelves:
re-read-and-loved
I used to love this book! I would read it over and over, studying the illustrations, and imagining the whole scene in my mind.
I wonder what happened to it? I guess we read it til it fell apart. I think I'm going to have to buy another copy.
"Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs! It looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!"
I wonder what happened to it? I guess we read it til it fell apart. I think I'm going to have to buy another copy.
"Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs! It looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!"
I LOVED this book when I was a kid. I read it and re-read it and made my mom read it to me 100 times a week. I don't know what the draw was, but I'm pretty sure I either thought I was Jillian Jiggs or I desperately wanted to be her.
Another great childrens book sessions in class today, proved to show a lot of really great books this being one of them. The colorful antics and costumes of Jillian Jiggs will have young readers captivated!
My favorite picture book of all time. It brings back childhood memories of being read to, and my girls love me to read it to them now. Hard to find, but worth the effort!
Excellent rhyme and glad it is a circular story and the hero is a girl............it is usually boys type caste as untidy!! I want to get other jillian jiggs stories.
This was my utmost favorite book when i was a little kid. My mother and i would read it all the time. i liked it particularly because i hated cleaning my room. : )
This is an awesome childrens book. We read it often and anyone who has had a child with a messy room will love it. Children also love it.
I love the repetition in these books because it makes it so easy for the Kindergarten kids to "read" along.
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An accurate re-telling of what it was like for me to clean my room!
Seriously, I just adored her. Maybe worshiped is a better word for it...
Jun 06, 2008
Jen Haddad
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5 of 5 stars
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You can't help but love Jillian's imagination!
My favorite kids book ever. i have it memorized
Jul 19, 2008
Anne
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My favorite childhood book EVER
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