Alice's Birthday Pig
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Book Overview
Alice fetched the three-legged pig and plopped it down in the middle of the food, where it snorted and grunted and gobbled, collapsed on its back and wiggled its legs at Alice as if it hadn't even... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0802853358
ISBN13:9780802853356
Release Date:March 2008
Publisher:Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Length:54 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Age Range:10 years and under
Grade Range:Preschool to Grade 5
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Heartwarming realistic fiction!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
What a sweet little beginning reader! I'd put this at a challenging 2nd grade, easy 3rd grade level. Alice's family is so wonderful, so warm and charming. She's teased by older brother Oliver for mispronouncing "aminal" After a class field trip to a small farm, Alice wishes more than anything for a real pet pig on her birthday. Her family has a delightful tradition of making an elaborate shaped cake every year to commemorate an important event of that year. A penguin, an airplane, a chutes and ladders cake, a train, a stegasorus, Big Bird, even a plain "cake, cake" for the year her brother complains about his cake not being grand enough. This year her parents make her a pig cake... and then surprise her with a pet guinea pig. Her little sister Rosie gets into Alice's gifts including a paint set and inadvertently covers Oliver with glitter but none of that matters. Alice names her new guinea pig "Aminal", much to Oliver's dismay. This story is a real winner.
Upbeat, easy-to-read story.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Alice's Birthday Pig is a chapter book for young readers ages 7-10 about a girl who longs for a pet of her very own, and who gets frustrated over her inability to properly pronounce the world "animal". Her brother teases her by comparing the way she talks to that of their baby sister Rosie, which is completely unfair since Rosie is only three! Alice's dream of having a pet pig eventually comes to pass in a surprising way - when she becomes the proud owner and responsible caretaker of a guinea pig! A handful of charming black-and-white illustrations enhance this upbeat, easy-to-read story.
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