The Pig, the Elephant, and the Wise-Cracking Bird
Sampson, Michael / Johnson, Bonnie J. / Sampson, Joshua
Meet Ogden Oink, a fun-loving, adventurous, likeable piglet. He dresses and speaks as humans do, gets into more than his fair share of difficulties because he interprets figurative expressions literally, and he does not understand various meanings of polysemous (i.e., multiple-meaning) words. A studious-looking, somewhat didactic bird appears throughout near the edges of the pages to add even more figurative language to the story. The "languag...