Elephant & Piggie Books in Order
Mo Willems has written 36 Elephant & Piggie books, published between 2001 and 2025. The first book is Are You Ready to Play Outside? (2001) and the newest is An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 36
- Published
- 2001–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,456 in 25 of 36 books
- Reading time
- 24–36 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,456 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 25 of 36 titles with a page count on record.
Elephant and Piggie are Mo Willems's two picture book friends, an elephant and a pig whose stories turn on friendship, feelings and jokes told in dialogue. Are You Ready to Play Outside? starts the listing in 2001, with My Friend Is Sad, There Is a Bird on Your Head! and I Love My New Toy! following in 2007 and 2008. Thirty-six titles make up the set, including the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! books, at a median of 57 pages.
How many Elephant & Piggie books are there?
Elephant & Piggie has 36 books, released between 2001 and 2025.
Elephant & Piggie Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 36 Elephant & Piggie books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 12001–1/4
- 22007641/4
- 32007572/4
- 42007642/4
- 52007562/4
- 62007642/4
- 72008–2/4
- 82008642/4
- 92009–2/4
- 102009572/4
- 112009642/4
- 122010572/4
- 132010642/4
- 142010572/4
- 152011572/4
- 162011572/4
- 172011–2/4
- 182012–2/4
- 192012572/4
- 202013–2/4
- 212013552/4
- 222014–2/4
- 232014552/4
- 242015572/4
- 252015642/4
- 262016512/4
- 272016–2/4
- 282016572/4
- 292017492/4
- 302017512/4
- 312018502/4
- 322019–2/4
- 332020642/4
- 342021642/4
- 352022–1/4
- 362025–1/4
Do you have to read Elephant & Piggie books in order?
You should read the Elephant & Piggie books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Elephant & Piggie book also stands alone.
Where to start with Elephant & Piggie
Start with Are You Ready to Play Outside? (2001), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Elephant & Piggie book?
An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! (2025) is the newest Elephant & Piggie book released so far.
Is there a new Elephant & Piggie book coming?
No next Elephant & Piggie book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Elephant & Piggie at a glance
- Still running
- Elephant & Piggie is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Elephant & Piggie books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,456 pages across the 25 of 36 books with a recorded length, a median of 57 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Elephant & Piggie books, 21 of 36, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 36 titles, 36 are credited to Mo Willems, 1 to Jarrett Pumphrey and 1 to Jerome Pumphrey.
What the Elephant & Piggie books are about
34 of the 36 Elephant & Piggie books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: elephants is tagged on 25 of 34. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Elephants 25 of 34 books
- Pigs 23 of 34 books
- Children's fiction 20 of 34 books
- Friendship 16 of 34 books
- Humor 10 of 34 books
- Animals 4 of 34 books
- Elephants in fiction 4 of 34 books
- Picture books 4 of 34 books
- Emotions 3 of 34 books
More books by Mo Willems
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Mo Willems books in order 89 books