Are you ready to read this week? We’re having a lot of fun this week with one of our favorite authors, Mo Willems. We’re going to spend the week getting to know Mo!
Click on the search bar above and type the tag: #gettoknowmo and you’ll find some of our favorite Mo Willems selections, like the ones listed below. Plus, if you missed our special virtual program recently where we celebrated the friendship of Elephant and Piggie, you can watch it now!
Join along at home by making some Elephant and Piggie crafts. Head over to the Bowman Library before February 27 to pick up TWO craft kits to make a set of Elephant and Piggie puppets and put a bird on your head.
Here are some great Mo Willems books to get you started.
Because: A series of events, some seemingly very insignificant, lead to a young girl attending a life-changing concert.
Knuffle Bunny Free: While traveling with her family to Holland to visit her grandparents, Trixie once again loses her beloved Knuffle Bunny.
A Busy Creature's Day Eating: A busy creature eats his way through the alphabet!
The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
Cat the Cat Who is THAT? An exuberant cat introduces readers to her friends.
I Lost My Tooth: Friends search for Zoom Squirrel's missing baby tooth. Includes "acorn-y jokes" and "cool facts."
There is a Bird on Your Head: Gerald becomes annoyed when a bird lands on his head, and the situation only gets worse until Piggie offers a solution to help him solve his problem.
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus: When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon!
Have some fun with Pigeon with a song to enjoy along with the book using the tune, "The Wheels on the Bus"
The Pigeon on the Bus
The wheels on the bus go
Round and round,
Round and round
The wheels on the bus go
round and round,
all through the town.
The pigeon on the bus flaps his wings,
flaps his wings,
flaps his wings
The pigeon on the bus
flaps his wings,
all through the town.
The pigeon on the bus says
Let me drive!
Let me drive!
Let me drive!
The pigeon on the bus says
Let me drive!
All through the town
The pigeon on the bus goes
vroom, vroom, vroom
vroom, vroom, vroom,
vroom, vroom, vroom
The pigeon on the bus goes
vroom, vroom, vroom
all through the town.
You can also sing a song to go with your Piggie and Gerald puppets too!
If You're an Elephant and You Know It
If You’re an Elephant and You Know It
If you’re an elephant and you know it, shake your ears
If you’re an elephant and you know it, shake your ears
If you’re an elephant and you know it and you really want to show it.
If you’re an elephant and you know it, shake your ears!
What else can an elephant do? Maybe, sway his trunk, or stop around?
But what about a pig?
If you’re a pig and you know it, say oink, oink
If you’re a pig and you know it, oink, oink
If you’re a pig and you know it and you really want to show it.
If you’re a pig and you know it, oink, oink!
What else can a pig do? Maybe, root in the mud? Make a mess!
You can use this same tune with the bird hat you make in honor of one of our favorite books, “There is a Bird on Your Head!”
There's a bird on my head, on my head
There's a bird on my head, on my head
There's a bird on my head, making a nest and a bed
There's a bird on my head, on my head.
What happens when that bird brings a friend and makes a nest? This is an echo song you can sing to the tune of, "The Green Grass Grew All Around."
A Nest on My Head
Upon my head (upon my head)
There was a bird (there was a bird)
The pretties bird (the pretties bird)
That you ever did see (that you ever did see)
Oh, the bird on my head she made a bed
She made a nest on my head on my head, she made a nest on my head.
And then that bird (and then that bird)
She brought a friend (she brought a friend)
The pretties friend (the prettiest friend)
That you ever did see (that you ever did see)
Oh the bird on my head she brought a friend
And they made their nest on my head on my head, they made their nest on my head
And then that bird (and then that bird)
She laid three eggs (she laid three eggs)
The pretties eggs (the prettiest eggs)
That you ever did see! (That you ever did see)
Oh, the bird on my head she made a bed
She brought a friend, she laid three eggs
Because they made their nest on my head on my head, they made their nest on my head
And from those eggs (and from those eggs)
There hatched three chicks (there hatched three chicks)
The prettiest chicks (the prettiest chicks)
That you ever did see! (that you ever did see)
Oh, the bird on my head she made a bed
She brought a friend, and laid three eggs, that hatched three chicks
Because they made their nest on my head on my head, they made their nest on my head!
Have a lot of fun this week getting to know Mo and we’ll see you next week for a new theme!