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Summary
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Extra Yarn and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Mac Barnett, and award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli comes a new classic picture book that celebrates the tender and silly moments of our lives.
I like you like a tree.
You're funny like a fossil.
I love you like a pig.
Oink! Oink! Oink!
The whimsical pairing of the text and art make for interactive read-aloud fun with little ones.
Author Notes
Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author of books for children. His picture book Extra Yarn won a 2013 Caldecott Honor and the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mystery novels. He co-wrote Battle Bunny with Jon Scieszka which was a New York Times bestseller. Barnettt's book, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, illustrated by Jon Klassen, made the New York Times bestseller list in October 2014. It also won an E.B. White Read-Aloud Award 2015 in the picture book category.
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Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-Pizzoli strives mightily to make sense of Barnett's spare text, but readers may still be left mystified as to how one can be "lucky like a window" or "sweet like a banker." The rounded figures depicting children of many races, his pastel palette, festive polka dots and pennants, and a generally upbeat ambience convey the happy nature of Barnett's silliness. The appealing artwork and fun refrain go just so far in this head-scratching bit of absurdity. The entire book feels like a party, but the substance is as incorporeal as a mouthful of cotton candy. VERDICT Purchase only where Barnett and Pizzoli are popular.-Miriam Lang Budin, Chappaqua Library, NY © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
For kids, similes are a gateway to the world of figurative language, but they're also ripe for absurdist comedy, as Barnett (Triangle) and Pizzoli (Good Night Owl) prove. "I'm happy like a monster./ I'm lucky like a window./ I'm smiling like a tuna./ Because I love you like a pig," writes Barnett, adopting the cadence of an affectionate, improvised ditty. The silly sincerity of the text goes together with the goofy innocence of Pizzoli's minimalist cartooning like, well, peas in a pod. Choruses of "oinks" appear between stanzas, adding irresistible invitations to make noise. Some lines are head-scratchers by design ("You're sweet like a banker"), but all encourage big, imaginative thinking: what does it mean to love someone like a pig? (Parties and good times, based on the evidence Pizzoli presents on each passing page.) There's a nifty poetic inventiveness throughout that families and language arts teachers can build on-because, come to think of it, a window is pretty lucky when a pie is placed on its sill to cool. Ages 4-8. Agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways is given a juvenile twist as Pizzoli and Barnett team up for another wonky winner. The bright digital illustrations pop with polka dots and sound bites as three children discuss how many ways they feel affection for each other. Happy oinks intersperse the pages as the children try to define their fondness: I love you like a pig. Other kooky reactions come up: the kids are happy like a monster, smiling like a tuna, funny like a fossil, or crazy like raspberries. Lucky like a window shows a pig and a little girl munching on big pieces of pie, which had been cooling in an open window. But always, the oinks return. The simple line drawings, the generous white space, and the diverse faces of the children and funny animals brighten the message with the accessible illustrations. A quirky, nutty salute to the many moments of emotions, and a fun read-aloud as children ponder the silliness surrounding true friendship.--Gepson, Lolly Copyright 2017 Booklist