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152nd out of 332 books
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339 voters
Should I Share My Ice Cream? (Elephant and Piggie #15)
by
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 Should I Share My Ice Cream? Gerald has a big decision to make. But will he make it in time?
Using vocabulary that is perfect for beginning readers (and vetted by an early-learning specialist), Mo Willems has crafted a...more
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.
Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
In Should I Share My Ice Cream? Gerald has a big decision to make. But will he make it in time?
Using vocabulary that is perfect for beginning readers (and vetted by an early-learning specialist), Mo Willems has crafted a...more
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published
June 14th 2011
by Disney-Hyperion
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What's that you say? You think a child's picture book about an elephant and a pig with an ice cream cone should be something an adult should read? Slow down the crazy train there! We all know adult reading levels have dropped off in recent years but come on.
But no, really! This is a book you really should read. Hear me out.
Looking back I realize how fortunate I really was. Sharing and generosity were things that were taught to me from a very young age and again were hammered into me from school,...more
But no, really! This is a book you really should read. Hear me out.
Looking back I realize how fortunate I really was. Sharing and generosity were things that were taught to me from a very young age and again were hammered into me from school,...more
Mo Willems is one of my favorite authors and I really love how he always does something unexpected at the end of his books. When elephant gets his ice cream he keeps thinking about his friend piggie and if he should share with piggie. He tries talking himself out of sharing and says that piggie wouldnt like that flavor anyways so he takes a bite. Then he decides that piggie would like the ice cream that hes eating and feels guilty like piggie is off by himself sad. So elephant goes to find piggi...more
Summary: Elephant gets an ice cream cone and debates whether to share it with Piggie or not. The problem is that Elephant thinks about it for too long and all of his ice cream melts. Elephant is sad. But to his surprise along comes Piggie, offering to share his ice cream cone with Elephant!
Audience: K-2
Appeal: Word on the street is that everyone looooves Mo Willems! And this is a good book about sharing; it reminds us that sometimes we might need someone to share with us.
Implementation: I would...more
Audience: K-2
Appeal: Word on the street is that everyone looooves Mo Willems! And this is a good book about sharing; it reminds us that sometimes we might need someone to share with us.
Implementation: I would...more
This book for very young children, part of a series on doing the right thing, is very funny, and has a good message in it as well.
Gerald the elephant is best friends with Piggie the pig. Gerald gets an ice cream cone and really doesn’t want to share it, but feels like he should share it with Piggie. However, Piggie isn't around and might never know the difference! Gerald continues to ponder, and by the time Piggie comes along, the ice cream has melted so the question is moot. But as it happens,...more
Gerald the elephant is best friends with Piggie the pig. Gerald gets an ice cream cone and really doesn’t want to share it, but feels like he should share it with Piggie. However, Piggie isn't around and might never know the difference! Gerald continues to ponder, and by the time Piggie comes along, the ice cream has melted so the question is moot. But as it happens,...more
When I began reading and searching through Illustrated books to decide my nomination for this year's Caldecott winner, "Should I Share My Ice Cream?" instantly made the top of the list. The good-natured lesson of the story is almost told solely through Mo Willems art. His ability to depict various ranges of emotion and capture his character's feelings from a simple change of lines is very captivating. The art in this book give the satirical pages of the tale a humurous image that completely crea...more
Mo Willems does it again with another entertaining book for early readers. In his book Should I Share My Ice Cream? he accurately captures the struggle that comes with deciding whether or not to share with someone else. The illustrations, like in the other Elephant and Piggie books, are simple yet effective in capturing a great range of emotions. However, Should I Share My Ice Cream? does come across as an in-your-face lesson about sharing that can seem overly didactic. Because of this, I probab...more
Should I Share My Ice Cream? (Elephant and Piggie) by Mo Willems is another entry in the popular beginning reader series about two excitable, enthusiastic best friends.
Should I Share My Ice Cream? is just what beginning readers need, a funny book with repetition, large varied type, and funny illustrations. It's a book about friendship that kids will enjoy (and parents will enjoy reading and laugh at too.) I love Gerald's small print comment "I blew it". Gerald's sudden realization that "That wa...more
Should I Share My Ice Cream? is just what beginning readers need, a funny book with repetition, large varied type, and funny illustrations. It's a book about friendship that kids will enjoy (and parents will enjoy reading and laugh at too.) I love Gerald's small print comment "I blew it". Gerald's sudden realization that "That wa...more
I also LOVE this book by Mo Willems. It is very funny, and silly. I loved the story line to this book and also the pictures were adorable. Overall, this book was fantastic! I would recommend this book to kindegarten and 1st grade teachers to read this book to their class. Also parents could read this book to their children at home.
Children's Literature
Elephant buys an ice cream cone and then begins an argument with himself. Should he share the ice cream with Piggy? Piggy is nowhere to be seen. N...more
Children's Literature
Elephant buys an ice cream cone and then begins an argument with himself. Should he share the ice cream with Piggy? Piggy is nowhere to be seen. N...more
I will just give a generic review of this series.....We love them. They are so dang funny. It amazes me that with just a few pen strokes Willems can convey so many different emotions. The illustrations are hilarious and the story line is always entertaining. They are great books for reading out loud in dramatic ways. They're also great for kids wanting something to read on their own, or with a parent. Sometimes I'll read the Pig part (because I'm a girl) and my boys will read the Elephant part (...more
Notes: Should I Share My Ice Cream, by Mo Willems is a fun book about sharing things and feel that students will really like it.
Book Review: In this book, Willems does a good job on showing how we as people often think about sharing but then are hesitant. Gerald begins an argument with himself if he will share his ice cream with Piggie, who is nowhere to be found. While Gerald is arguing with himself his ice cream cone begins to melt and before he knows it, it is all on the ground. Just then Pig...more
Book Review: In this book, Willems does a good job on showing how we as people often think about sharing but then are hesitant. Gerald begins an argument with himself if he will share his ice cream with Piggie, who is nowhere to be found. While Gerald is arguing with himself his ice cream cone begins to melt and before he knows it, it is all on the ground. Just then Pig...more
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems is one of our students' favorite books at Acton Academy Guatemala. They love the characters of Piggy and Elephant and they have read this book so many times that they have actually memorized the lines! I think my favorite part is probably when Elephant thinks so hard about whether or not to share his ice cream that (spoiler alert) his ice cream actually melts. It all ends well, though, because his friend Piggy shares his ice cream with Elephant. The cha...more
If your kids haven't found the Elephant and Piggie series and they are in a beginning reader stage, give the series a shot. That being said, I specifically enjoyed this title in the series because it was sharing-oriented. A couple of four and five-year-olds I know that are learning to read are having trouble with this issue right now and using ice cream as the sharing item is a genius. Everyone loves ice cream and seeing one of the character's selfless actions is totally worth getting to the end...more
A moving and funny story about friendship. Very true to what goes on inside the ice-cream possessing brain. I love this book!
After buying an ice cream cone, Gerald must decide whether to share his treat with his friend Piggy. After vacillating about his decision, Gerald decides to share, but he's taken so long to do so that the ice cream has melted. Piggy arrives on the scene and shares her ice cream with her friend. This beginning reader book contains a sweet message and two good friends and is sure to be popular with young readers. The humor and plot are exact as expected, and it seems a bit too didactic for my tast...more
Mo Willems knows how to write easy readers that make children and adults laugh, and that are actually appropriate for the age that they are trying to target. The words are simple, the print is big, and there is plenty of white space between lines so young children learning to read can distinguish between them. In this title, Elephant has purchased an ice cream cone and is trying to decide if he should share it with his friend Piggie. All the Elephant and Piggie books are great for young children...more
This picture book is part of The Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems. It is geared for audiences from preschool through third grade, but Elephant and Piggie are so hilarious that older students enjoy reading the books as well. This book is appealing because it is about Elephant and Piggie's friendship. In this book, the Elephant, Gerald, is very dramatic in solving his dilemma about whether or not he should find his best friend, Piggie, and share his ice cream with her. This is a good book...more
Elephant and Piggie books rarely disappoint and this one is no exception. The language is simple and repetitive and carefully placed against the grey background of speech bubbles. The rest of the page is full of white space and Elephant trying to decide whether or not he should share his very favorite ice cream with his very best friend. When the inevitable happens, what with all the dancing and gesticulating and torturous decision making, the surprise ending leaves everyone - readers, listeners...more
Like all the Elephant and Piggie books, this one is great, it's just that there are getting to be so many of them. I feel like now that I've got the hang of Willems's sense of humour that this one was a little predictable but still adorable. My husband and I like to read them aloud together as a dialog and this one is mostly Gerald without many Piggie lines so it wasn't quite as much fun. The illustrations are really what makes the book, telling so much story in Willems's simple but articulate s...more
This latest Elephant and Piggie book follows the same formula as its predecessors: entirely dialogue, mostly between Elephant and his best friend Piggie; simple illustrations depicting actions and emotions, and very entertaining. Normally, Elephant and Piggie books are great for two people to read aloud, because of the two characters, but this one focused mainly on Elephant and his internal struggle (Should I share my ice cream?). In some cases, formula can become staid, but in this case, why ch...more
I read this during story time to two coworkers in hopes that some kids would appear. We just changed the day for story time. My coworkers enjoyed the book even though they were adults and I suspect one may buy it for her grandchildren. Elephant is trying to decide whether to be generous or greedy with his ice cream until the inevitable happens. Then Piggie enters the story in a reversal of what Elelphant had imagined while trying to decide what to do. Really delightful, apparently for most ages!
Ok, we've all been there. We have something wonderful we know our best friend would appreciate - but we secretly really want it for ourselves. Such is the dilemma faced by Elephant. Should he share his ice cream with Piggie...or keep it all for himself. Mo Willems perfectly portrays the emotions behind the ordeal with simple words and illustrations. The unexpected (or perhaps you guessed!) happens, and Willems wraps it up wonderfully in this great story with a lesson for kids.
How can you not love this fun and hilarious book about the major dilemma of sharing ice cream? But seriously, I loved the antics of Elephant and all his thoughts and decisions about whether or not he should share with Piggie. I'm always amused by Mo Willem's books and this was no exception - his books are immensely entertaining. The end was comical as well and I had to laugh. I would definitely recommend this book!
*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2011...
*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2011...
Gerald the elephant has an ice cream cone and thinks long and hard about whether he should share it with his best friend, Piggie.
Unfortunately he takes too long and the ice cream melts!
There is a happy ending when Piggie shows up with ice cream and shares with Elephant.
Very nice lesson about sharing with great humor and illustrations.
I am loving Mo Willems.
Read in Austin from Drew/Logan/Sabrina's library.
Unfortunately he takes too long and the ice cream melts!
There is a happy ending when Piggie shows up with ice cream and shares with Elephant.
Very nice lesson about sharing with great humor and illustrations.
I am loving Mo Willems.
Read in Austin from Drew/Logan/Sabrina's library.
Mo Willems does it again with this tale of the anxious Gerald and the freespirited Piggie. Written as a beginning reader/graphic novel Should I Share My Ice Cream is a very honest story of friendship, sharing, and everyone's inner struggle to do the right thing. New readers will love the illustrations and easy flow of words that are standard in the Elephant and Piggie series.
Reading/Interest Level: Preschool-1st Grade
Reading/Interest Level: Preschool-1st Grade
The cover of this book made me laugh out loud when I picked it up from the hold section of the library. I love good author/illustrators as much as the next guy, but I'm double amazed when a good author is able to come up with so MANY good ideas.
This book receives an extra star because of Willems' ability to continue to somehow cover new ground in this series (and somehow hide the Pigeon in a totally new way to boot).
This book receives an extra star because of Willems' ability to continue to somehow cover new ground in this series (and somehow hide the Pigeon in a totally new way to boot).
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems is yet another excellent Elephant and Piggie Book. The books develop an interesting storyline in just a few words. The books are great for early readers as they are able to achieve reading success in books that are humorous. Gerald’s contemplation of if he should share his ice cream results in a unique circumstance that fortunately ends well for both Gerald and Piggie!
This was my first elephant and piggie book, and they follow a similar style to Mo Willems' pigeon books - there's a funny meltdown at some point. In this book, elephant must decide if he should share his ice cream with his best friend. He decides to share - but then realizes his ice cream melted while he was trying to decide. He is crestfallen until piggie shows up with an ice cream to share. Aw!
So, Gerald's expressions as he debated sharing his ice cream ("Piggie does not know I have ice cream" = Scheming, "Piggie does not like this flavor of ice cream" = Triumphant) so closely mirror my own as I debate sharing things that I found myself getting a little embarrassed. Is that seriously what I look like when I'm debating keeping the last of the chocolate cake from my boyfriend?!
I'm working on creating a booklist for my local public library. This book was one in consideration for this list.
I will add this to my manners booklist. This is the perfect example of figuring out for one's self what the right thing to do is. It also teaches the lesson of himming and hawing over said "right thing," there will be consequeces.
Totally a perfect book for my list.
I will add this to my manners booklist. This is the perfect example of figuring out for one's self what the right thing to do is. It also teaches the lesson of himming and hawing over said "right thing," there will be consequeces.
Totally a perfect book for my list.
Very clever, great pacing, fun art, nicely done. A great piece on friendship, sharing, and on the conflicts that a child/person feels between self-gratification vs. more social ways of being. Very appropriate to the psychological and moral development of the little ones who will enjoy this book. In other words, despite being an enjoyable and easy reader, it's pretty deep.
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#1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale.
In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early r...more
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In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early r...more
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