By: David McPhail
Pig Pig Gets a Job is about a little that decides that he wants money so he can go to the store and buy something. So he runs home and asks his mom to give him some money. He is shocked when his mother asks him what he is going to do to get some money. She tells him that he has to earn it. So Pig Pig begins to get imaginative. He goes through a whole list of jobs that a child could never do. Every time that he says that he could do one of those big jobs, his mother says that he could do something similar around the house, hinting that he could do house chores to earn an allowance. Like when he says that he can become a mechanic and fix race cars, his mother says that he could wash the race cars too… and that he could wash their car because it was getting dirty. She did this on every page. In the end, Pig Pig gets the brilliant idea that his mother could give him a job and pay him to do things. His mother thinks about it and then asks him what he can do? Pig Pig says that he can wash the car, feed the pet, make lunch, clean his room, and build a birdhouse, everything that his mother had hinted at while he was using his imagination.
I believe that this book relates to the chapter because it is a good read aloud book. After a couple of pages of Pig Pig’s mother hinting at doing house chores, the students would most likely catch onto the pattern and be able to guess what she is going to suggest that Pig Pig do instead of what he is dreaming up. This would be a great book for the students to practice their predictions with. Every page in the book is used, even the title page. I did not realize that the picture on the title page was important to the story. Normally, it is an independent picture that does not follow the story line. This picture started out the story with Pig Pig staring into the store window. That is why Pig Pig wanted money.
Pig Pig Gets a Job is about a little that decides that he wants money so he can go to the store and buy something. So he runs home and asks his mom to give him some money. He is shocked when his mother asks him what he is going to do to get some money. She tells him that he has to earn it. So Pig Pig begins to get imaginative. He goes through a whole list of jobs that a child could never do. Every time that he says that he could do one of those big jobs, his mother says that he could do something similar around the house, hinting that he could do house chores to earn an allowance. Like when he says that he can become a mechanic and fix race cars, his mother says that he could wash the race cars too… and that he could wash their car because it was getting dirty. She did this on every page. In the end, Pig Pig gets the brilliant idea that his mother could give him a job and pay him to do things. His mother thinks about it and then asks him what he can do? Pig Pig says that he can wash the car, feed the pet, make lunch, clean his room, and build a birdhouse, everything that his mother had hinted at while he was using his imagination.
I believe that this book relates to the chapter because it is a good read aloud book. After a couple of pages of Pig Pig’s mother hinting at doing house chores, the students would most likely catch onto the pattern and be able to guess what she is going to suggest that Pig Pig do instead of what he is dreaming up. This would be a great book for the students to practice their predictions with. Every page in the book is used, even the title page. I did not realize that the picture on the title page was important to the story. Normally, it is an independent picture that does not follow the story line. This picture started out the story with Pig Pig staring into the store window. That is why Pig Pig wanted money.
Right in the beginning I was a little confused with the opening sentence. I either assumed you meant little boy or little pig when you said, "about a little that decides."
ReplyDeleteThe book itself sounds like a great book for a read aloud. I agree with you that it's perfect for predictions as it follows the logical pattern every page.