Are You Ready to Play Outside?

Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.

In Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Piggie can't wait to go play in the sunshine. But will a rainy day ruin all the fun?


Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 10/28/2008
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.70w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781423113478
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 0.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 154562 / Are You Ready to Play Outside?

Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Geisel Medal (Dr. Seuss) - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/2008 pg. 51
School Library Journal 12/01/2008 pg. 106
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2008
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2009 pg. 104
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2009 pg. 21
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 pg. 53 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Mo Willems is the author and illustrator of such groundbreaking books as Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Caldecott Honor winner 2004) and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Caldecott Honor winner 2003), leading the New York Times to declare him "the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the '00s." Mo considers this series some of his most fun work.

Mo's deceptively simple art style was developed in his early career as a six-time Emmy Award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Streetand the creator of Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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