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Loading... Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! (2003)by Mo Willems
This book is nonstop laughs. The pigeon is exactly like a child: persistent and uncompromising. (  ) matthewbloome | May 19, 2013 |  The kids loved this caldecott honor book when I read it aloud to them. GailBryant | May 5, 2013 | Summary: The bus driver takes a break and tells the reader that the pigeon cannot drive the bus. Once the bus driver leaves the pigeon tries just about every tactic to convince the reader to let him drive the bus. First, he starts off really nice, then begins to beg and please and then has a full blown temper tantrum. After his tantrum, the bus driver leaves but then the pigeon gets the amazing idea that he wants to drive a truck. Personal Summary: This story was not only hilarious but the illustrations were simple, yet amazing. The text of the story also flowed along with the pigeons emotions. This story is a great read along for a group of children. Classroom Extension: 1) Have the class discuss why temper tantrums are annoying. 2) Have the class draw their favorite scene of the story. (  ) RosieBillings | Apr 24, 2013 | Pigeon keeps asking the "reader" if he can drive the bus, which the bus driver specifically tells the "reader" not to do. ( ) Kelseybelsey29 | Apr 22, 2013 | When the bus driver leaves the bus for a moment he warns the reader not to let the pigeon drive the bus. The bus driver asks, pleads, bribes, argues and eventually throws a tantrum to get his way. This is a funny book that might just offer up the reality of just how silly you look when you act this way! ( ) Cfmichel | Apr 13, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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Amazon Exclusive: The Pigeon: A Life in Pictures
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Back in 1993, I was cartooning for a ’zine. Due to a lack of other material, we decided to make the December issue a sketchbook with just my cartoons. I have been producing small cartoon and story sketchbooks for clients and pals every year since then. In 1998, my sketchbook featured a new character, the Pigeon. Born in the margins of a 1997 notebook filled with potential picture book ideas, he was complaining that his ideas were better than mine. To mollify him, I put him in that year’s sketchbook. The original sketchbook was much longer than the final published volume, but some of the lines were the same. 
In late 1999, an agent essentially agreed with the Pigeon and rejected my picture book ideas. She suggested I revisit my sketchbook with an eye to turning it into a picture book. My wife was working at a school library at the time and had read the sketchbook to her kids, who had enjoyed it. So I suppose it wasn’t too crazy an idea. I started to revise the layout and work with color. At the end of 2001, after several dozen rejections because the book was “unusual,” an editor decided that “unusual” was a good thing. Plus, it made her laugh. I began reworking and rewriting. The Pigeon was now starting to look more like his mature self. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was published in April 2003 and, to my surprise, proved to be popular quite quickly. Thankfully, that Pigeon doodle in the notebook back in 1997 was so insistent. He was right!
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"When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-- a pigeon. But you never met one like this before."
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