Willems, M. (2013). A Big Guy took my Ball! New York: Hyperion.  A Big Guy took my Ball!  is another installment in the Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems.  Piggie is very distraught as he tells Elephant (Gerald) that some big guy took a big ball he had found.  Elephant becomes very angry in hearing his friend's dilemma and thinks aloud about why big guys take advantage of little guys.  He decides to go to the big guy and return the ball back to Piggie.   Once he finds the culprit, he sees that it is a really big guy, much bigger than Elephant, it is a whale.  Elephant is frightened and embarrassed as he tells Piggie that he could not bring his ball back.  As they are talking, the whale joins the conversation and thanks them for finding his little ball.  The whale soon complains that little guys have all the fun and no one wants to play with someone so big.  The friends invent "whale ball" were they all three can play with the ball.  A Big Guy took my Ball! is an easy and fun book where the repetition of the text helps the reader decode words easily.  Mo Willems is a excellent, irreverent author in early childhood books and his texts tell a story while drawing in all that read his books.  Willems follows in the steps of Dr. Seuss creating books students love to read.  Mo Willems has also authored Don't Let the Pigeon series and Knuffle Bunny. He has won many Theodor Geisel Awards, an Caldecott honor award and has been on New York Bestsellers list.  To find out more information about Mo Willems and his creative works, go to mowillems.com.