If You Give a Pig a Pancake

5/5. This story is about a girl who gives a pig a pancake. It starts with a pancake and then goes to the pig wanting some syrup and then a bath. Ultimately the story ends with a pancake again. This is a simple story with plenty of antics and humor to engage toddlers and preschoolers. This book also allows children to see how their own constant demands might frazzle their parents. It is a very easy book to understand, it stimulates both mind and the eye, and irresistibly amusing. This is definitely a book that children will likely want to read over and over again. "If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it" (Numeroff, page 1 & 2).

This book is a modern fantasy about a little pig who likes pancakes. Pancakes make her want syrup, which makes her sticky and makes her need a bath. Each thing she does reminds her of something else and keeps going until it comes back to syrup which, of course, makes her want a pancake.

This is a delightfully silly book for me that I enjoy reading over and over again, with or without children. The little pig is much like my daughter when she was a young child. She had a very short attention span and it seemed like each thing she did made her think of a new toy or adventure.

With this book, students could use their imaginations to explore the associations between one object and another. By starting with a tree, one student might associate show more it with a treehouse and the next students might associate a treehouse with summer and so on. Another extension could be to have students look at a group of pictures and find the ones that go together. show less

This book is a funny domino effect book. It starts with giving a pig a pancake and goes all the way to the pig wanting to build a tree house. Children will love this book because it is sweet and funny at the same time.The pig always wants more, she never has enough because something always leads to something else and reminds her of something.

The pig eats pancakes, he wants syrup, gets sticky and needs a bath. The bath leads to toys, a search leads to tap shoes which leads to dancing. After dancing, he wants a picture, and to write friends, on the way to the post office, he finds a tree that needs a tree house. Decorating the tree house makes him sticky that reminds him of the syrup, making him want a pancake.

This is a good picture book that runs the story into a loop. The loop show consequences to actions taken and how one thing leads to another. This is a good series for the purpose of showing how the things we do effect so many other things in our lives. Easy read for a quick story with a moral and the kids enjoy all the trouble the pig finds to get into.

I figured these books would go downhill sharply after If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, but this one is actually pretty good, and has taught our toddler a lot of new words (suitcase, tap shoes, tree house).

I absolutely loved this book for a number of reasons. To begin, I can relate to this book because I am a pig lover so this book automatically catches my eye, considering the main character is a pig. Secondly, the organization and plot of the book is great. It starts out my the pig wanting maple syrup on her pancakes, then escalates onto other things, but continues to stay in chronological order. Also, the illustrations are eye catching and colorful. They go along with the text on each page very well and make it easy for the reader to understand what is going on. This book really pushed readers to learn about predicting and inferring about what the pig would want next in the story. Overall, this picture book was a funny read but also show more gave a message about how helpful and kind the girl who helped the pig was and put out a message about friendship and how strong it can be. I highly recommend this book. show less

This is a fun book about a overly active pig and with a small attention span! The book starts out nice as the girl shares a pancake with her pet pig. The pancake leads to syrup, which leads to a bath, which leads to a rubber duck, which leads to a farm... Over and over, one thing leads to another and another and another idea or reminder or change of activity. And all along, the girl quietly follows behind answering its beckon call and cleaning up behind it. Until finally, the pig touches glue and makes her sticky which reminds it of syrup which makes her want a pancake. The story is funny and a great read aloud for young children. I would recommend ages 4-8.