Don't Park on a Pig‪!‬

Don't park on a pig! Thus begins a deceptively simple poem full of various absurd cautions. Don't tickle a tiger! Don't leap at a lark! Don't dive off a duck! Don't shout at a shark! What will happen if you nibble a gnu? The last youngster in the book is about to find out!


With humorous, graphic illustrations that manipulate scale and cut across ethnic lines, this book, aimed at children aged 2 to 5, provides opportunities for open-ended discussion between child and adult. How would you park on a pig? How would a skunk react if you tried to skate on it? Learning to recognize each animal's expression—surprised, dismayed, calculating—furthers a child's understanding of various emotions. And underlying the whimsy is a serious message: Don't bully your fellow creatures, whoever they might be.