I cried when I saw the title, cried when it came in the mail, and cried the entire time I was reading it with my youngest daughter. When I saw that Mo Willems was ending the Elephant and Piggie series, I was pretty inconsolable for a while. Not a bad book in the series, just not one of the best. Yes, I realize I may be putting more analysis than really needed into a picture book, I accept that. unsubtle that it doesn't really fit what came before. Which brings me to my biggest issue it's clear that Willems is trying to get an emotion out of you at the end. It's one thing to tell a child to share, it's another for them to learn it and laugh the entire time. They teach kids lessons, but never at the cost of the comedy. That said, one of the things I liked about the series is how. Piggie and Gerald are friends, that's about it. On one hand, I give this points because it is a sense of closure to a series that doesn't really have a way to be properly closed. This brings back ever single character that has appeared in even one page of the previous 24 books.
The plot here involves Piggie deciding to thank everyone in her life. While this is not a series with an actual overarching plot, it's clear that Willems was trying to give a sense of finality to this one. This was the final published Elephant & Piggie book, and even had I not known that, it would have been pretty obvious by the end. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door. Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." 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 readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. #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.
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