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Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.

Gerald and Piggie are best friends.

In Waiting Is Not Easy!, Piggie has a surprise for Gerald, but he is going to have to wait for it. And Wait. And wait some more...

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PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT & PIGGIE SERIES "Accessible, appealing, and full of authetic emotions about what makes friendships tick, these titles will put a contemporary shine on easy reader collections."- Booklist (starred review)

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Mo Willems (www.pigeonpresents.com), a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don´t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! , Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale , and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity ). Don´t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was also an inaugural inductee into the Indies Choice Picture Book Hall of Fame. And his celebrated Elephant & Piggie early-reader series has been awarded the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal on two occasions (for There Is a Bird on Your Head! and Are You Ready to Play Outside? ) as well as garnering four Honors (for We Are in a Book!, I Broke My Trunk!, Let ´ s Go for a Drive! and A Big Guy Took My Ball! ). Other favorites include Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed and City Dog, Country Frog , illustrated by Jon J Muth. Mo lives with his family in Massachusetts.

See above.

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