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Let's go for a drive!  Cover Image Book Book

Let's go for a drive! / by Mo Willems.

Willems, Mo. (Author).

Summary:

Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781423164821
  • ISBN: 1423164822
  • ISBN: 9781451797749
  • ISBN: 1451797745
  • ISBN: 9781338280067
  • ISBN: 1338280066
  • ISBN: 9781368009720
  • ISBN: 1368009727
  • Physical Description: 57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, ©2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"An Elephant and Piggie book."
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 1 0.5 SD Quiz 154610 English fiction, audio quiz available for beginning readers.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning LG 1.0 0.5 154610.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 1.0 0.5 154610.
Language Note:
In English.
Awards Note:
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book, 2013
Subject: Imagination > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Wit and humor, Juvenile.
Readers (Elementary)
Humorous stories.
Automobile travel > Juvenile fiction.
Elephants > Juvenile fiction.
Swine > Juvenile fiction.
Piggie (Fictitious character : Willems) > Juvenile fiction.
Gerald (Fictitious character : Willems) > Juvenile fiction.
Automobile travel > Fiction.
Elephants > Fiction.
Pigs > Fiction.
Humorous stories.
JUVENILE FICTION > Animals > Elephants.
JUVENILE FICTION > Animals > Pigs.
JUVENILE FICTION > Social Issues > Friendship.
Automobile travel.
Elephants.
Friendship.
Gerald (Fictitious character : Willems)
Humorous stories.
Imagination.
Piggie (Fictitious character : Willems)
Readers (Elementary)
Swine.
Wit and humor, Juvenile.
Automobile travel > Fiction.
Elephants > Fiction.
Pigs > Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Genre: Readers (Elementary)
Humorous stories.
Picture books for children.
Humorous stories.
Humorous stories.
Humorous stories > Juvenile.
Picture books.
Humorous fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Readers (Elementary)
Humorous fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Dialogues > 2012.
Readers > 2012.
Humorous fiction.
Readers (Elementary)

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Homer Public Library.

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Homer Public Library BR WIL (Text) 000153868 Children's Library -- Beginning Reader Checked out 05/07/2024

Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9781423164821
Let's Go for a Drive!-An Elephant and Piggie Book
Let's Go for a Drive!-An Elephant and Piggie Book
by Willems, Mo
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Author Notes

Let's Go for a Drive!-An Elephant and Piggie Book

Mo Willems was born on February 11, 1968. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts, he spent a year traveling around the world drawing a cartoon every day, which were published in the book You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons. For nine seasons, he worked as a writer and animator for PBS' Sesame Street, where he received 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. During this time, he also served as a weekly commentator for BBC Radio and created two animated series, Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats and Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City. While working as head writer for Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door, he began writing and drawing books for children. He received three Caldecott Honor Awards for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! in 2004; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale in 2005; and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity in 2008. He also created the Elephant and Piggie series for Easy Readers, which were awarded the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal in 2008 and 2009. His drawings, wire sculptures, and ceramics have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the nation. Occasionally he serves as the Radio Cartoonist for NPR's All Things Considered. He voices and produces animated cartoons based on his books with Weston Woods studios. The animated Knuffle Bunny was awarded Best Film during the New York International Children's Film Festival in 2008 and received the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2007. His title Happy Pig Day made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011. In 2012 his title Goldilocks and The Three Dinosaurs made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 2013 his titles: That is Not a Good Idea!, Let's Go for a Drive! and I'm a Frog! made the New York Times Best Seller List. In 2014 The Pigeons Need a Bath! and Waiting Is Not Easy! made the New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)


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