The Pig, the Elephant, and the Wise-Cracking Bird (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781612546018)

Meet Ogden Oink, a fun-loving, adventurous, likeable piglet. He dresses and speaks as humans do, gets into more than his fair share of difficulties because he interprets figurative expressions literally, and he does not understand various meanings of polysemous (i.e., multiple-meaning) words.

A studious-looking, somewhat didactic bird appears throughout near the edges of the pages to add even more figurative language to the story. The "language confusion" humor will get young readers thinking about language-and laughing, too.

Author: Michael Sampson, Bonnie J. Johnson
ISBN-10: 1612546013
ISBN-13: 9781612546018
Publisher: Brown Books Kids
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 10.26h x 10.32w x 0.46d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2023