The Pig, the Elephant, and the Wise-Cracking Bird

Meet Ogden Oink, a fun-loving, adventurous, likeable piglet. He dresses and speaks as humans do, gets into more than his fair share of difficulties because he interprets figurative expressions literally, and he does not understand various meanings of polysemous (i.e., multiple-meaning) words.

A studious-looking, somewhat didactic bird appears throughout near the edges of the pages to add even more figurative language to the story. The "language confusion" humor will get young readers thinking about language-and laughing, too.

Author: Michael Sampson, Bonnie J. Johnson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown Books Kids
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 10.26h x 10.32w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781612546018
Audience: Ages 9-12