Watch Me Throw the Ball!
What's This Book About
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Watch Me Throw the Ball!, Gerald is determined to teach Piggie that ball-throwing is serious business… but Piggie is just as determined to have serious fun.
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Mo Willems knows a Good Idea when he sees one. A three-time Caldecott Honor winner (for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny, and Knuffle Bunny Too), he also won two Geisel Medals and two Geisel Honors for his Elephant and Piggie books. His books are perennial New York Times bestsellers, including Knuffle Bunny Free, Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!, and the Cat the Cat series. Before he turned to making picture books, Mo was a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he won six Emmys. Mo lives with his family in Massachusetts.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781423113485
- Publication Date
- January 1, 2009
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books for Children
- Original Publication Date
- January 1, 2009
- Page Count
- 64
- Word Count
- 260
- Audience
- Early Reader
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
- Lexile® Level
- 280L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~I
- ATOS® Book Level
- 1
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 154576
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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