Book Twenty One: Toot and Puddle

Toot and Puddle by Holly Hobbie
Publisher:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (September 7, 2010)
Lexile:320L


This story is about two best friend pigs, but one day one of them decides to see the world and his best friend did not want to go. So he travels the world sending postcards back to his friend. They both have very different experiences, and they both enjoy their time. But, as time goes on they begin to miss their friend, so they are very happy to come together at the end.


This was a very nice story, and I really enjoyed it. The plot was very well done, and I thought the character development was also well done. I really got a sense of who these pigs were, and how even though they are best-friends they still enjoy very different things. This story is full of personification, and the author really displays this when the pigs are talking or writing postcards. There is also quite a bit of alliteration such as, "presenting Puddle at Pocket Pond." I also found it very interesting that the author choose to use postcards as text, and I think this would be a great introduction to writing postcards. The illustrations were great, and they really added personality to the characters. They fit the story very well, and they reminded me a lot of the illustrations from Olivia by Ian Falconer.


I would use this book to teach postcards because I think it is such a unique book because it uses them as text. I think this would be a great introduction to that topic. 




Thanks for reading!


Gorms