Charlotte Pomerantz (1930–2022)

The beautiful giantess who speaks Spanish and English and likes fishing and cartwheels and skinny-dipping makes a friend of a boy (who she staunchly defends as not a little boy, because he's taller than all his friends, even though he only comes up to her ankle). She rejects unsuitable suitors, and finds a suitable one, who likes her even though she's taller than him, and takes her fishing. Lush pictures, a satisfactory plot, works in the importance of politeness, speaking multiple show more languages, and literacy, my daughter and I both love it. And it's fun to say "Mangaboom". show less

Children have friendships that go up and down as they are trying to figure out their feelings and balance other feelings too. This is a book about Molly and Ben and during the book, they have a disagreement on what type of tent they want to buy with their allowance. After fighting for awhile, their joint birthday that they have every year happens and they make up after they exchange sleeping bags for presents. Then they decide that they both will compromise on what tent to buy. This is an show more amazing social moral book that teaches the reader a lesson about compromising and putting other people before yourself, which is hard for young children to do. Ages 3-5. show less

A fun James Marshall-illustrated rhythmic, rhyming, repetitive tale. Might be interesting with Arnold Lobel's Small Pig to explore the full realm of pig behavior; in this one, a family of anthropomorphized pigs has differing opinions on the value of muddiness, though they all come around in the end.

The Piggy in the Puddle by Charlotte Pomerantz is a wonderful, entertaining children’s book. I enjoyed reading it for many reasons; the main reason is for the rhyming throughout it. The rhyming makes it a tongue twister to read aloud, for example, “mud is squishy, mud is squashy, mud is oh so squishy-squashy”, and that makes it amusing to read. I also enjoyed this book for the illustrations in it, which are quite entertaining, yet simple. Each illustration only has the colors yellow, show more green, brown, and pink in it, and the setting stays the same the entire time. I also thought it was very humorous that the pigs were dressed in clothing, while still playing in the nasty mud. I am not sure of the true main idea of this book, but one could be that even though it may not seem the best idea to do something, it is all right to allow yourself to have fun and do something that you would not normally do. show less