The Muppets' Mixed-Up Christmas. Written & Illustrated by Maguire, Mary, and Richard Eric Brown.

Maguire, Mary, and Richard Eric Brown. The Muppets' mixed-up Christmas. New York: Penguin Puffin for Young Readers, 1999. Print. 16 pages
Age Group:	2 to 6 years
Book Format:	Picture Book
Annotation:	A Muppet Lift-the-Flap Book that is fun for all ages. All of Ms. Piggy’s decorations are hiding in various places, but her friends can’t find the Christmas ones. So they decide to use decorations for all the other holidays.
Personal Reaction:	Great to see and compare the hiding places between Piggy’s world and the real world of the reader.
Keywords/Tags:	Fiction, Holidays, Friends, Decoration, Parties
Early Literacy Skills Enhancements:	Vocabulary Skills ~Develop and increase emergent literacy skills and vocabulary Print Motivation ~Increase interest in and enjoyment of books Visual Literacy Skills ~Pictures have meanings ~Pictures and words are different Reading Readiness, which includes understanding that ~Pages turn from right to left ~Books have a front, back and right side up ~Stories have structure and development of a sense of story Print Awareness ~Provide a language enrichment environment ~Show the importance of and provide an opportunity for young readers to listen, observe, imitate, and practice language while interacting with books. Narrative Skills ~Young readers will be able to re-tell a story based on the illustrations in Picture Books