 Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have a lot of fun telling people about our favorite books The elephant and piggy books, right? Look at how many we have we have so many elephant and piggy book. Let's see. We can say hi to everybody Can you say hi, Ellie? Connor and Ellie are two and a half and Connor is my son and Ellie is my daughter you want to say say who you're holding You're holding piggy piggy is your favorite friend, right? And who are you holding? Can you show the camera? Joe Gerald and Gerald's an elephant. Let's show them Gerald and They're characters from their very very favorite books They gave you yeah, did you see those hearts they gave you that's pretty cool. Oh Oh more hearts. They're so colorful Yeah, yeah, they're going right into my nose Yeah Thanks, they are so cute somebody said you're so cute. Yeah, too many This is their first time using a real microphone too, so this will be fun Gerald Gerald, yeah So Connor and Ellie are two and a half and they've been reading for I don't know by six months ago. We discovered the elephant and piggy books by Moe Williams And it has a character Gerald who's an elephant and piggy who is a pig It took us a couple books to find out that piggy was female, but she's a girl, right? For Christmas they they got these. Oh, don't let them knock over the camera They got these little stuffed versions of elephant and piggy and what do you like about piggy? Too many hearts You're distracted by the hearts, huh more hearts Connor come here so we can see you there. Yeah All those hearts. Oh, hey Ryan, so Those hearts are going to my nose you're right So what what they really like about these elephant and piggy books is that there's not a lot of text on Hitch in the head Connor not a lot of text on each page And there's a lot of everything's through a speech or thought bubble So it makes it easy for them to understand and follow the story even though they're not readers yet And they they're already recognizing a lot of the words there So Moe Williams is the author. Let's hold this up so they can see who writes them And it seems like he has one out about a year What is our newest one? We got a new one here just in June But Moe Williams he wrote those Is it the the books with the bird in there the The pigeon like if you give a pigeon a cookie, but we really like the elephant and piggy books And Connor looks like he's he's gone. We lost him. He's busy pulling out chairs What what is this one Ellie we have this one it says is there a bird on your head? Yeah, what happens in that book? Yeah, I'll put on twitter I'll put a link out to The author's page on amazon because these are really great books. Oh don you're familiar with them? Yeah, we the books are quick so we can read three in one sitting very very easily And then they like to pick them up and retell them after we read them Yeah, and there's piggy like a piggy And so just some of the titles pigs make me sneeze Gerald thinks that his best friend piggy Makes him sneeze that he's allergic to him and thinks their friendship is going to be over Spoiler alert at the end. It's just a cold because he's also allergic to cat doctor too. So Yeah, Mo Willems is the author. Let's see here. Oh, this is our newest one. I will take a nap Gerald gets so tired And he needs and cranky and he needs to take a nap, but will piggy let him Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, what do you want to show Ellie? We could all use a nap couldn't we She's she's a natural with the camera. Yeah, she holds it right up She the the periscope our camera. We couldn't point down anymore because I know it should probably be at the top So the chat room doesn't cover it, but Connors kind of shooting baskets with our new little basketball hoop down here How about this one ellie? I'm on a mission to break the hearts record Ellie's in large. Oh, what's this one ellie? What is this one A big guy took my ball Yeah, big guy took a ball Do you what happens in the book? Yeah, let's look at a picture so we can remember Oh, is piggy happy or sad? Yeah, and what I love about the books too is it's been so great for my kids to identify emotions because clearly you can see Piggy is sad there. And so we talk about how each of the characters feel a lot as we read them Let's see Oh, and who is the big guy the big guy Let's let's get to the right page Oh, there he is The big guy is a whale He's a whale. Yeah Yeah, he's a whale Good, but teach grammar with little kids. Yeah, I think that they're ellie being a two and a half year old here. She's learning a lot. Yeah You're gonna come back and join us connor Are you got the ball stuck in the hoop? All right Let's look at some of the other ones. Oh, this one's good. We use this phrase a lot waiting is not easy And gerald has to wait for a surprise What do you want to show something in it ellie? Okay, what do you want to show? Gerald's so happy. Yeah, because he's jumping. Isn't he? Yeah I wasn't sure if they could sit still one can sit still and the other is out and about over there. Yeah Friends with piggy. Yeah. Yeah, she has a great reading voice. Can you say thank you? Thank you That's that's saying, you know, we might just end up deleting this periscope if it didn't turn out very good But ellie's doing a great job Yeah, they can't see the book. They see the back Let's let's we have so many of these here's one Called let's go for a drive and they get everything ready to go for a drive like bags and umbrellas and maps And what's the one thing they don't have? No, I I don't know what you just said, but they don't have a car and that's so they end up using their imagination instead Oh, yeah on a pirate ship. Show them the pirate ship. Let's These are reminding you You have my smile, huh? Lucky you Oh, here's clad ellie. Can you roll your eyes? That was a good one. That was really good Drive drive drive. There's another one where they find out they're trapped in a book And they play a little trick on the reader. That one's a really fun one. One of my favorites A car because they don't have a car. Do they in their drive? Yeah, um another one is uh, I'm a frog Yeah, you're they're looking for a map in the frog piggy pretends to to be a frog and that freaks gerald out because he doesn't know what pretending is Uh-oh connor. Did you get hurt? Come here. Come here Oh, did you fall down? He's shooting baskets and fell down Oh, what got stuck Um, one of one of my least favorite ones is elephants can't dance. I don't think that one's so Oh, we don't we don't want to cry on the internet connor It's broken. We'll fix it. We'll fix it After we get done showing books, we'll fix it There you go Uh, a really good one. I love the surprise twist that mo wilms puts in here Piggy fell down in that page didn't piggy Yeah, there are award stickers. They won like the suce award several of these and the book. I don't know what that was that was weird Then this one's a great one. I love my new toy the the unexpected twists in all of these are fun because Piggy thinks that elephant broke her new toy And it turns out that that's just the way the toy was made. It was supposed to break and asking a whoa Asking a their their friend snake to play he asked to play catch with them and he doesn't have arms So they have to figure out a way to play catch with snake even though he doesn't have arms So Nikki's Nikki's analyzing Is it your regular past tense? I I miss that was that what ellie's talking or Oh, yeah, she loves her new toy And then gerald breaks it, huh? Yeah, yeah Let's see another one is my new friend is so fun And they're afraid that their best friends are going to be best friends and leave them out and again has another cute surprise ending So we have a pile of all these books, don't we? What oh he has red eyes because he is so excited about seeing it, huh? Yeah, oh and there he threw his toy way up Yeah Do you want do you want to say one more thing before we end do you want to tell anybody anything? You're welcome craig we like sharing our favorite books with you Um, and we we love elephant and piggy and we can't wait till a new one comes out All right, so everybody, uh, see you later. See you. Can you say see you later?