Bill Peet Stories

A turtledove named Myrtle finds a big pinkish, purplish, and bluish egg one day. She takes it home and waits for it to hatch. A griffin (half lion/half eagle) named Zeke hatches out of the egg and scares all the other birds but the turtledove away. One night wolves and foxes came to feast on Zeke. He wants to fight but the turtledove tries to convince him that fighting is not the way. One day when he is walking he finds a remote places and comes up with an idea. He scopes down and picks up the wolves and foxes and drops then off at the remote location and tells them if they come back again he will take them on an even longer trip. The turtledove is happy and all the other birds see that he is not a mean creature. I picked this book because I wanted to see what was going to come out of the egg. The acceptance of others is something that Peet likes to write about in his stories.

Pamela is an unhappy camel that runs away from the circus. She is sick and tired of being called dumb and mean. After walking for a while, she notices that the train’s tracks have been pulled up and knows that the train will crash if a train rolls over that part of the tracks. She hears a train coming and stands on the tracks in hopes that the train will stop. The train does stop and they realize that the train tracks are destroyed. Pamela goes back to the circus a star and lead the grand procession ever night. She will never be called stupid, dumb, or a bad-tempered beast again. I picked out this story because there was another story with the circus theme and I wanted to compare them. The circus and farm setting reappear in this book .

Bill Peet books

Big Bad Bruce is a story about a bear that treats other animals unkind. He meets a witch one day who he angers. She makes a magical pie that she leaves out for the bear to eat. He goes to sleep and wakes up smaller than a quail. The animals that he upset before were now chasing him. The witch found him again and he was sure she was going to make him disappear. To his surprise, she took him home and took care of him. He made friends with her cat and wandered through her garden as if it were a forest. I chose Big Bad Bruce because I remember reading this story when I was a child. In every story he uses word that would be hard for a child to comprehend but is able to make the words meaning easy to comprehend.

This story is about five lions that get stage fright. The owner hires a lion trainer that scares them so bad that they roar all night long and no one can get to bed. The next day everyone is too tired to perform. The owner lets the old lion trainer try one more time and the lions put on a spectacular show because nothing can scare them as much as the mean trainer they had. I picked out this story because I had picked up another story that was also based out of a circus and I wanted to compare them. Again the elephants are all the same in all the books when they come from the circus. They are identical to the book Pamela Camel and Ella. He also loves to draw lions they appear in three out of the ten books. The circus theme again appear in this book. The theme of this book is to believe in yourself, which is another popular theme for his stories.

Jennifer and Josephine by Bill Peet

Josephine was a cat had made a home in Jennifer the car. Jennifer was an old touring car that lived in the junkyard until one day a man came in and bought her. Josephine decided to hide in the backseat because she wanted to stay with Jennifer. The man that bought the car was a horrible and fast driver after a number of accidents and narrow escapes he ran her off the road and towards the end of a ravine. The car was going to fall in and be washed away so she ran to find help. She found a boy that got his father and their horses to pull out Jennifer. The two then remanded at the barn and always rode together. I picked out his story because most of the other books had only animals on the cover. This book had a person on the cover. The farm setting shows up in this book. The main theme of this book is also friendship

Ella by Bill Peet

Ella is a story about a circus elephant that becomes spoiled because everyone wits on her. She one day decides she is too big of a star and that the circus is not treating her like thinks she should be treated. She decides to hide when everyone is getting on the train. She realizes that it is a mistakes right away but is sure they will realize she is gone and find her. As she is walking along she comes across a farm where a nasty farmer named Lucifer Kirk lives. He makes her work on his farm for one year doing all sorts of hard jobs. She one day hears the distinct sound of the circuses train whistle and breaks out of the barn and finds her circus friends. She now always pitches in to help and is no longer spoiled. I chose this story because I picked up another book with an elephant on the cover. In this story as well as the others his style of writing shines through in the vocabulary that he uses. He uses word in his writing that would be difficult words for a child but manages to somehow make the meaning easy to understand. Out of the ten books that I checked out from the library four of them had elephants. All of the circus elephants looked alike. The circus setting is in this book as well as others. The farm setting is another popular setting for his books.

Eli by Bill Peet

Eli is an old, lonely lion that comes to aid of a vulture one day. The vultures are so grateful that they start to follow Eli around wherever he goes. One day he is fed up and yells unkind things to them and says to leave him alone. They go but say that they will always be his friend and hope that they can help him one day. One day the vulture he helped was flying when he saw a tribe of men tracking Eli so they could kill him. The vulture flew ahead and found him and planned a scheme so the people would think he was dead. He had all of his vulture friends pretend to be peaking at his body so it looked as if Eli had died. The plan worked and the men walked away. After that, the friends were always close to one another. I chose this book because I picked out Randy’s Dandy Lions and it had lions too. The way that he does the friendship theme in his stories seems to be the same. It always shows up in an unlikely pair.

The Ant and the Elephant

The story begins when an ant is picked up by a gust of wind and dropped on a snag in the river. He sees a turtle and asks for a ride to shore. The turtle refuses and as he is walking away trips and is stuck on his back. The turtle asks for help from the Mrs. Bigbill who refuses and then has a problem herself. The giraffe does not help the bird and then becomes snagged in veins. The lion and rhino both refuse to help others and then find themselves in situations they cannot get out of by themselves. An elephant then comes along and helps the ant. The ant is very grateful. The elephant then goes on to help all the other animals none of which thank the elephant for his help. The elephant is very proud of the work that he has done and is happy that he is so big and will never have problems. Just as he says that he falls off a big cliff and gets wedged in a tight spot that he cannot get out of alone. Ninety-five thousand ants come to his rescue including the one he helped earlier. No matter what you do to help it could be big it could be small it is a big deal to the person that you help. I chose The Ant and the Elephant because it was a story that I read when I was younger. The elephant from this book was the only wild elephant and he had tusks the other three books that had elephant not one of those elephants had tusks. The friendship theme pops up in his books quite often.

Brochure on Scribd

I was going to put my brochure on scribds. I uploaded it and everything. When I was reviewing it I noticed that all my personal information - name, phone number, email was on it as well. I tried to resave but was unable because the only one that would pop up was the pdf version which I could not change so I deleted it. I did try.