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And I have a copy. Obviously it's been out, but I just got my copy today.

This book is every bit as good as it sounds. (Well, duh. It's Elephant and Piggie! Being meta! What's not to love?)

I had told Evangeline about this book BEFORE it came out. The concept just blew her mind - "They are in a book? They know they're in a book? How do they know?"

Me: I don't know. Maybe WE are in a book.
Evangeline: No.
Me: We could be.
Evangeline: No we couldn't.
Me: How do you know?
Evangeline: Because if we were in a book, there wouldn't be any wind, and we wouldn't be walking and talking.
Me: Would we know that?
Evangeline: WE ARE NOT IN A BOOK!

This is the first book in which Piggie doesn't merely break the fourth wall, her normal gig (ah, all those snarky asides! We even start with one, a wink and a whispered "thank you!") but actually leans on it. (Seriously, her hands get all white where they're smushed up against the page.) She hangs from the speech bubbles! She makes us say BANANA! She turns pages! (She even bends back the cover, which is weird when you consider it's a hardcover book.)

I'm not really sure where Mo Willems can go from here. And the next one isn't out until January. I just don't know what he's gonna do with it, but I'm waiting!