The Piggy in the Puddle

 By Charlotte Pomerantz
Illustrated by James Marshall

I picked this one up because it's James Marshall.  The verse rhymes and mostly matches, but there's lots of repetition and my husband and I found it fairly annoying.

 My daughter was nuts about it.  I had to read it again and again.  Lots of rhyming nonsense words.

Obviously the pictures are Fantastic.

The corresponding Reading Rainbow episode is disappointing.  They did a claymation version of it and the models didn't have nearly as much character as the original drawings by Marshall.