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There is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie #3)
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Mo Willems
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.
Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
In There Is a Bird On My Head , Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head--two birds on your head Can Piggie help her best friend?
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.
Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
In There Is a Bird On My Head , Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head--two birds on your head Can Piggie help her best friend?
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published
September 1st 2007
by Hyperion
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this book misses a five-star rating because i dont like the art in it, even though i usually love his art. however, im glad to see a childrens book that recognizes the evil of birds, and how arrogant and cruel they can be. the title alone gives me chills...
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This is the funniest book in the entire world. It is so funny that it is probably 10 times funnier than the second funniest book in the world.
1. Controlled Vocabulary (Geisel)
2. Poor Gerald has a bird on his head. Of course he immediately starts to freak out but Piggie remains calm trying to explain the whole situation. Then the whole bird family moves in! Imagine their surprise when the baby birds arrive!
3. Critique
a. The Willems' books are great for beginning readers (Prek).
b. The word bubbles provide simple dialogue for young beginning readers and the pictures help to tell the story enough that readers will f...more
2. Poor Gerald has a bird on his head. Of course he immediately starts to freak out but Piggie remains calm trying to explain the whole situation. Then the whole bird family moves in! Imagine their surprise when the baby birds arrive!
3. Critique
a. The Willems' books are great for beginning readers (Prek).
b. The word bubbles provide simple dialogue for young beginning readers and the pictures help to tell the story enough that readers will f...more
1. This book would fall under the category of a picture book, controlled vocabulary.
2. Gerald and Piggie are great friends. When Gerald has a family of birds move in on his head, Piggie is excited rather than concerned. Piggie solves Gerald’s problem, but then is faced with the problem himself.
3. critique
a. The most outstanding aspect of this book is the story sequence.
b. While keeping the story interesting, the author creates a great sequence throughout the story...more
2. Gerald and Piggie are great friends. When Gerald has a family of birds move in on his head, Piggie is excited rather than concerned. Piggie solves Gerald’s problem, but then is faced with the problem himself.
3. critique
a. The most outstanding aspect of this book is the story sequence.
b. While keeping the story interesting, the author creates a great sequence throughout the story...more
Wow. This is my first Elephant and Piggie book, but it won't be my last. If they're ever in at the library, or I decide to make a special request - they're popular and always checked out! I was sure I'd like it cuz I'm such a fan of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Leonardo, the Terrible Monster, but I didn't realize just how talented Willems is. Excellent for Beginning Readers. Amazing how the animals expressions can be captured with such succinct drawings, and how such a re-readably...more
Easy Readers are kinda a pain to deal with. You want to hold your kid's attention naturally (they won't want to read a boring book, and who can blame them?) while teaching them something, and you want them to want to read the book again. Reading a book more than once increases their understanding. (Plus, you probably don't have enough cash to buy enough books for your kid to read them each one time only.)
This is a tough sell. Kids don't want to read "books" that are nothing...more
This is a tough sell. Kids don't want to read "books" that are nothing...more
I love this book! The book is about two friends, a pig named Piggie and an elephant named Gerald. The two are relaxing together when a bird flies near them and lands on the Gerald’s head. Piggie and Gerald carry on conversation about what has just happened. Gerald is upset and unsure what to do with a bird on his head. However, Piggie is amused with the bird on Gerald’s head. As the story progresses another bird lands on Gerald’s head and then they build a nest. The nest leads to the bir...more
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A bird finds its way on to Gerald the Elephant's head, and it doesn't look like it wants to leave. Good thing Gerald has a friend like Piggie to help him out. There is a Bird on Your Head!, winner of the Geisel Medal, is a clear and entertaining easy reader. Mo Willems trademark cartoon illustrations with color-coded text bubbles are expressive and simple to understand. The dialogue is also repetitive enough to help children practice their sight words without becoming dull or monotonous. Wi...more
1.The genre for this title is picture book, controlled vocabulary. A 2008 Geisel Award winner.
2.Elephant Gerald is faced with a problem, birds on his head. His friend, Piggie, is not as concerned until Gerald asks the bird family to move. Where will this bird family move and make Gerald one happy elephant?
3.A. This title is a great example of a classic beginning reader. Willems’ use of color, speech bubbles, font type and size as well as a slow paced manner ensures childr...more
2.Elephant Gerald is faced with a problem, birds on his head. His friend, Piggie, is not as concerned until Gerald asks the bird family to move. Where will this bird family move and make Gerald one happy elephant?
3.A. This title is a great example of a classic beginning reader. Willems’ use of color, speech bubbles, font type and size as well as a slow paced manner ensures childr...more
In There Is a Bird On My Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend? (Goodreads summary)
There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie) by Mo Willems is one of the funniest books in this series. It has the usual plain background, large fonts, word balloons, word repetition, facial expressions, and lots of slapstick humor. Themes include frustration and communication. This book and the res...more
There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie) by Mo Willems is one of the funniest books in this series. It has the usual plain background, large fonts, word balloons, word repetition, facial expressions, and lots of slapstick humor. Themes include frustration and communication. This book and the res...more
Elephant and Piggie find a bird sitting on Elephant’s head. The one bird turns to two birds, then to a nest, then to a nest with eggs and then to a nest with baby birds. Elephant and Piggie have to figure out a way to get the birds off of Elephant’s head. This nicely illustrates cause and effect.
The illustrations are very simple, but add to the humor in the story. The pictures are very expressive. The story is very simple and easy for children to read.
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The illustrations are very simple, but add to the humor in the story. The pictures are very expressive. The story is very simple and easy for children to read.
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This is a classic Mo Willems kind of story. Exaggerated dialogue filled with various inflections of emotion that make a simple situation absolutely hilarious. Our girls loved this book.
Genre: Children’s, Controlled Vocabulary
Summary:
Gerald and Piggie are quieting napping, back to back, when a startling occurrence, a small bird landing on Gerald’s head, sends them into a flurry of questions. Gerald is immediately concerned and each question he asks builds on the previous question, giving him information that only serves to increase his frustration. The little bird makes itself at home and proceeds to set up a nice nest for it’s family.
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Summary:
Gerald and Piggie are quieting napping, back to back, when a startling occurrence, a small bird landing on Gerald’s head, sends them into a flurry of questions. Gerald is immediately concerned and each question he asks builds on the previous question, giving him information that only serves to increase his frustration. The little bird makes itself at home and proceeds to set up a nice nest for it’s family.
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What a fun ending to this sweet story. I love how Piggie gives a simple lesson on how to handle an issue with someone that is bothering you. Great lesson to children, “simple ask”. I think the illustrations have a lot for discussion on how the characters are feeling and what is going on in the story through the images. Great for younger readers and older readers to be reminded that the illustrations add what the text may not be telling you. The word bubbles are great for teaching younger c...more
Another great installment of the Elephant and Piggy series by Mo Willems! In this book, Piggy discovers a bird on Gerald's head, which causes a huge disaster because Gerald does NOT want a bird on his head. Soon, there are TWO birds on his head--Piggy explains the two birds are in love, aka love birds! This book is so great because Piggy is a GREAT friend to Gerald and gets the birds away from his head, because it causes him discomfort. Young children will love reading this book because it is ...more
Astounding in its portrayal of modern existence, There Is a Bird on Your Head is unparallelled by any other work in the western canon of literature. Willems asks the question "What does it mean to be human?" and answers with singular definitiveness to the extent that the former problem need never be pondered again. In it's shadow, all other canonical works—even those of Milton and Shakespeare—are rendered insignificant by Willems' resonant masterpiece. There Is a Bird on Your Head is a...more
Since there is a list of all of the Elephant and Piggie books in the back of Elephants Cannot Dance, my son has wanted to have them all. Luckily the library just got this one in and so our borrowed set is now complete. He's going to be so sad when I have to return them, but I feel like I'm depriving other new readers having them all out as it is... He read this one on his own, with help from me on the hard words like 'afraid'. This series is fantastic, especially for new readers and anyone w...more
Reading the book There is a Bird on Your Head actually made me laugh. The pages were white and the only color to the book was the elephant and the pig or when the birds were on their head. Just because the pictures do not grab your attention with the illustration I still think children will love this book. I love how the elephant is not happy the whole time because he has birds on his head and his friend has a smile on his face the whole book. It is funny how it switches at the end because th...more
There Is a Bird on Your Head! is a story of honesty, finding the silver lining in everything and asserting yourself. The story is told in conversation bubbles between two friends: Elephant and Piggie. This picture book won the ALA Geisel Award for 2008. The Geisel Award is given annually to “the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States”. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/a...
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This is my newest addition to my Elephant & Piggie Collection, it had me laughing out loud in Borders! The series is just so incredibly funny, and children really enjoy the humor. In this book, a bird lands on Gerald's head, and he needs Piggie to help him get it off! Hilarious situations ensue as always, but I don't want to ruin that part. With it's simple dialogue, this is a story that could easily be acted out by you or your students. Also, there is simple addition in the story, which is grea...more
You will have the group's rapt attention while sharing this book. It is simple. It is dramatic. It is funny. There is one catch. You have to be able to cut loose and say "Aaaaaaaaaaaggghhh!!!" like you mean it.
The story works well with two readers--one taking the voice of "elephant" and the other taking the voice of "piggy". Invite the children to be the voice of the birds. Demonstrate actions they can make when they repeat after you "Cheep, ...more
The story works well with two readers--one taking the voice of "elephant" and the other taking the voice of "piggy". Invite the children to be the voice of the birds. Demonstrate actions they can make when they repeat after you "Cheep, ...more
This story was so funny. I love Mo Willems right now. I think he creates children books that are different and funny. In this story a bird decides to bulid a nest and start a family on the top of Gerald's head. He freaks out about it but at the end of the book Piggie suggests that Gerald just ask the birds to leave.They do but they land on top of Piggie's head. If i was to use this story in my classroom it would be placed in the classroom library so that everyone can enjoy it.
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I loved all of the pictures and silly thoughts. There is not really a storyline to this book, but i liked it. The book is just about birds flying on an elephants head, making a nest, and hatching eggs. Then he asks them to move because they are bothering him, and they do! I love the part about the "love birds." I would definitely give this book to a kid to read as long as they were under about 5 or 6. It is a very, very, very basic book with not much depth at all.
Dear Mo Willems,
Thank you so much for creating the funniest early reader books ever! I love hearing my daughter read them to me. But better than that, these Elephant and Piggie books, along with David Milgrims Otto books, are what made my daughter into a reader! These are the books that we check out from the library and she brings to me wanting to read them to me over and over again. And I don't get bored of hearing them. They make me giggle every time.
Sincerely,
Josie
Thank you so much for creating the funniest early reader books ever! I love hearing my daughter read them to me. But better than that, these Elephant and Piggie books, along with David Milgrims Otto books, are what made my daughter into a reader! These are the books that we check out from the library and she brings to me wanting to read them to me over and over again. And I don't get bored of hearing them. They make me giggle every time.
Sincerely,
Josie
Hands Down this is MY FAVORITE Children's picture book! In fact I've just about memorized the story and told all my friends about it. I even shared it with family and friends as we were waiting a funeral to start, and had everyone laughing. Do I dare mention that I read the book out loud in the car to my husband and he even turned down the radio and listened to the whole story? This book is a must have for your book collection. It's a quick read and very funny!
I am currently reading this and other Elephant and Piggie books with our highest kindergarten reading group! It is so much fun to be able to take this group into actual trade books, and these books are so fun because working in partners they can each take the role of either Elephant or Pigge and they have a blast with the back and forth reading. These books are really good for working on using punctuation and reading with tone and inflection.
Piggie informs Elephant that there is a bird on his head. The birds proceed to build a nest, lay eggs, and the eggs hatch, all on Elephant's head. Piggie is sympathetic to both parties. He convinces Elephant that all he has to do is ask the birds nicely if they will move somewhere else, which they do, much to Piggie's dismay!
Once again, Mo Willems delights with his whimsical illustrations and dialogue that children will love.
Beginning Reader, Elephant and Piggie. Geis...more
Once again, Mo Willems delights with his whimsical illustrations and dialogue that children will love.
Beginning Reader, Elephant and Piggie. Geis...more
Award: Theodor Seuss Geisel This award is given for distinguished books for beginning readers.
I love this book. It made me laugh out loud. I know I shouldn't say it's cute, but I can't help it. The expression on their faces are priceless. You can't help but feel sorry for Elephant.
I think this book is perfect for kindergarten and first grade. This book is so honest, I think the students will really enjoy it.
I love this book. It made me laugh out loud. I know I shouldn't say it's cute, but I can't help it. The expression on their faces are priceless. You can't help but feel sorry for Elephant.
I think this book is perfect for kindergarten and first grade. This book is so honest, I think the students will really enjoy it.
Bridget
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Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner of 2008 Mo Willems produces another amusing story in the Elephant and Piggie series. There is a Bird on Your Head! centers around two friends who help each other. This amusing story will get young children laughing, as well as entertain the adults who are reading with children. This helps children see how friendship works and the importance of helping each other.
Mo William's deceptively simple start to the Elephant and Piggie series earned him a Theodore Seus Geisel award. Elephant must grapple with a bird setting up a nest and hatching some new birds on his head as Piggie tells him what is happening. What works in these books are the expressive features of elephant and piggie. My son pours over these books and laughs to himself at each expression.
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