What's big?
A pig is big.
A pig is fat.
A pig is bigger than my hat.
What's bigger than a pig?
You may well wonder. Fortunately, Douglas Florian and a very big, very pink pig have all the answers. A cow is bigger than a pig. A car is bigger than a cow. A truck is bigger than a car. And the universe? Well...
The universe is wide in girth
It is the biggest thing of all.
Compared
to it.
all things
seem
small.
Florian's rhyming, ever-expanding verses make us turn those pages as fast as we can; his fabulous colored pencil and watercolor illustrations are what slow us down to a lingering pace. Explore the concepts of big, bigger, and biggest while giggling at the image of a cow squeezing into a car to drive a pig into town. Florian's well-loved
Mammalabilia: Poems and Paintings and
Winter Eyes are equally read-aloudable! (Ages 3 to 6)
--Emilie Coulter
