Huggly's Pizza

Title: Huggly's Pizza
Author: Tedd Arnold
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
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Publication Date: 2000
Genre: Picture Book
Audience: Grades 2-4

Overview: Huggly's Pizza is an exciting story about a Monster and his love of pizza. The main character Huggly tells his other monster friends about a flat kind of food called pizza that the people world has. They all set out in search of some pizza. They look high and low and finally make their way to a pizza parlor. They can not be seen by people and end up hopping in the back of the pizza delivery car along with all of the pizzas. After much struggle they end up back in their secret slime pit stuffed from the pizza they found.

Activity: A good activity for this book would be to have the students make a sequence of events chart. There are a lot of different events throughout the book and this would help the students comprehend everything that happend. Another activity would be to have the kids look at the pictures before they read the story. They then would write what they think the story is about by just looking at the pictures. The end of the activity can be to read the book and compare their stories to the actual story.
Reviewer: Katy Ulrich