Is That Wise, Pig? [Hardcover]

Cow and Pig are helping Mouse make a delicious soup, but Pig keeps trying to add ingredients that don’t make sense!

Mouse is making a yummy pot of soup and Cow and Pig are helping add ingredients. Mouse adds four tomatoes, Cow adds five potatoes, and Pig adds…six galoshes?! Is that wise, Pig? Young readers will be so busy giggling at Pig’s antics, they won’t even realize they are counting, too. A twist ending and irresistible characters will make this a favorite read-aloud.Jan Thomas is the creator of Rhyming Dust Bunnies; Can You Make a Scary Face?; Here Comes the Big, Mean Dust Bunny!;  Is Everyone Ready for Fun?; and Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy. She lives with her family in Socorro, New Mexico.Eight years after Duck's persistent and unwelcome turnip obsession in A Birthday for Cow (2008), it's now Pig's turn to be the odd animal out. Mouse, Cow, and Pig are making a supersized pot of soup. An exuberant counting exercise ensues as a growing assortment of vegetables gets tossed in—one onion, two cabbages—and three umbrellas! The bewildered but ever polite Mouse and Cow ask, "Is that wise, Pig?" Other veggies join the bubbling broth, but Pig's contribution is six galoshes. The running refrain of "Is that wise, Pig?" reaches a crescendo when Pig blithely announces that 10 of his hungriest friends have been invited. With spoons in hand, the plethora of pool-hogging piggies party hearty in the soup-filled pot as Mouse and Cow come to appreciate the fortuitously available umbrellas and galoshes. Bowing to the inevitability of a menu change, Mouse orders pizza instead. Thomas' trademark loud and zany illustrations obey no boundaries and bleed off the pages with raucous abandon. Deft digital tweaking shifts the friends' expressions from anticipatory to chagrined amid the escalating chaos. Preschool sous-chelóå