Are You Ready to Play Outside?

 Title: Are You Ready to Play Outside? 

Author: Mo Willems

Illustrator: Mo Willems

Summary: A pig named Piggy and an elephant named Gerald meet up to play outside. They are planning on running, skipping, and jumping together, but it started to rain. Piggy became upset because he was so excited to play with Gerald outside. They see two little worms having a great time in the rain, so they decide they are going to have fun too. They start splishing and splashing in the rain, but then the sun comes out. Piggy then gets sad because he started to like the rain, but Gerald has an idea. Gerald uses his trunk to make rain for Piggy. 

I love this series for young readers. The words are big enough for little kids to practice reading, and they are quite funny too. Piggy and Gerald are quite the fun duo and I loved growing up reading their adventures together.