![]() He provides the emphatic dialogue in varying font sizes and keeps the design details simple but effective: Piggie's words appear in powdery rose-colored voice bubbles, Elephant's in pale blue-gray. Willems treats each page (or spread) as one panel, so the action unfolds briskly against white backgrounds. "I need my friends!" "You need new glasses." Piggie whispers in an aside to readers, ending on a sly note. ![]() ![]() Elephant does not cheer up until Piggie shows up sans Energetic Piggie dons a series of costumes (cowboy, clown, robot) to boost sulky Elephant's spirits in My Friend Is Sad She gets assistance from a mock-ferocious bulldog, whose barking does help her to jump (but not fly), and an amiable pelican who demonstrates how friends can lend a hand (er, wing). ," Elephant responds, in Green Eggs and Hamįashion: "You will not fly today./ You will not fly tomorrow./. When Piggie declares, " Today I Will Fly! ![]() ) introduces two best friends in the paper-over-board Elephant & Piggie books: a naysaying gray bespectacled pachyderm and an optimistic pink porker, whose opposing temperaments serve as the bases for sparring and mutual understanding alike. Willems ( Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! ![]()
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