|a While Piggie is determined to fly, Elephant is skeptical, but when Piggie gets a little help from others, amazing things happen. |a New York : |b Hyperion Books for Children, |c 2007. Williams Branch Library Children's Collection Sutter County Main Branch Children's Area Princeton Branch Library Children's Collection Elephant and Piggie make brief cameo appearances to bookend these new stories.Ī musical has been produced based on the Elephant and Piggie books.Arbuckle Branch Library Children's Collection Since then, Willems has developed a series called Elephant and Piggie Like Reading!, which features pictures books by other authors. In August 2015, Willems announced that the 25th book in the series would be the last. Two books in the series have been listed on Time magazine's Top 10 Children's Books of the Year: Today I Will Fly! (ranked #2 in 2007) and Elephants Cannot Dance! (ranked #5 in 2009). There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside? won the Geisel Medal in 20. Books are added to the series on a roughly quarterly schedule, with two books occasionally released on the same day.

The books often address issues of friendship. The books are written in conversational style with Piggie's words appearing in pink letter bubbles and Gerald's appearing in grey letter bubbles. The series, which debuted in 2007 with two books, is done in a comic book style, and features two friends: an elephant named Gerald, and a pig named Piggie. Elephant and Piggie is a book series for early readers created by Mo Willems.

Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems