Kindness is on the menu! Pizza Pig's pizza parlor is the place to
be, where animals can order whatever their taste buds desire in this
entertaining Step 2 beginning reader.
WINNER of the 2019 Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award for Beginning
Fiction!
Penguins like their pizza cold. Rats want cheese with extra mold!
Customers at Pizza Pig's get whatever they want on their pizzas! But why
isn't Turtle eating? It turns out that one is the loneliest number when
it comes to a bustling pizza joint filled with groups of animals. All
Turtle needs is a friend to whet her appetite! This rhyming story about
pizza, compassion, and friendship is sure to tickle young readers.
Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple
stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new
words with help. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help
children decode the story.