Mo Willems, award-winning, New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Unlimited Squirrels, presents best friends Elephant Gerald and Piggie.

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?

Read all of Elephant Gerald and Piggie's adventures!
- Today I Will Fly!
- My Friend is Sad
- I Am Invited to a Party!
- There is a Bird on Your Head!
- I Love My New Toy!
- I Will Surprise My Friend!
- Are You Ready to Play Outside?
- Watch Me Throw the Ball!
- Elephants Cannot Dance!
- Pigs Make Me Sneeze!
- I Am Going!
- Can I Play Too?
- We Are in a Book!
- I Broke My Trunk!
- Should I Share My Ice Cream?
- Let's Go for a Drive!
- Happy Pig Day!
- Listen to My Trumpet!
- A Big Guy Took My Ball!
- I'm a Frog!
- My New Friend is So Fun!
- Waiting is Not Easy!
- I Will Take a Nap!
- I Really Like Slop!
- The Thank You Book

Author: Mo Willems
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 09/01/2007
Series: Elephant and Piggie Book
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.84w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781423106869

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 154573 / There Is a Bird on Your Head!


Award: 2008 Geisel Medal (Dr. Seuss) Winner - Children's Literature
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award Nominee - Grades K-2
Award: 2008 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Up to Seven
Award: 2010 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee - Grades K-3
Award: 2010 Charlotte Award Winner - Primary


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/16/2007 pg. 18
School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 130
PW Notes and Reprints 09/17/2007 pg. 57
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2007 pg. 39
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2008 pg. 97
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2008 pg. 54 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Mo Willems is the author of groundbreaking picture books, including; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Caldecott Honor winner 2004); Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Caldecott Honor winner 2003); Don't Let the Pigeon Stay up Late!; The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!; Time to Say "Please"!; Leonardo, the Terrible Monster; Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct. He also wrote Today I will Fly! and My Friend Is Sad, the first books in this series. In his previous life, Mo was a six-time Emmy Award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Streetand the creator of Cartoon Network's Sheep in the BigCity. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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