Laura Numeroff has hit a homerun with these circular story books! They are silly, but outrageously entertaining! In this story, a little girl offers a pig a pancake, and all of a sudden her kind gesture touches off a maddening frenzy of bizarre requests. The pig asks for syrup to go with the pancake, a bath to wash off the sticky syrup, a rubber duck to play with in the tub, etc. It is a hilarious sequence of funny events that eventually leads back to the pancake (circular story concept). It is a wonderful story to read to children, because they can relate to it. In all these circular stories, it is children who are cast in semi-parental roles (another great idea by Laura). In most instances, if the children like one book, they will be prone to read the other four books in this series!
Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Illustrated by Felicia Bond. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1998.
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