World Famous Comics: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
From: Hyperion Press Publisher: Hyperion Press Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Hyperion Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 40 Publication Date: April 01, 2003 Reading Level: Baby-Preschool Release Date: March 03, 2003
Product Description: When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems perfectly captures a preschooler's temper tantrum.
For all the family I came across this book when my wife found it on the shelf in a local bookshop.
She read it and encouraged our son to stop dancing around the bookstands and concentrate and read it.
Although he prefers video games he loved it.
When I met up with them, he was so enthusiastic that he persuaded me to read it.
My daughter then loved it when she had stopped looking at 'her favourite books' in the store.
We all appreciated the simple humour of the book and the appreciation of the pigeon's point of view - which was a learning point for all of us.
PS my daughter is 18 and my son 16!
We really love this one The pigeon throws all the standard tricks to get you to let him drive the bus, you say no a lot, he doesn't drive the bus, everybody's happy. (Except the pigeon, but he's easily distracted.)
This is weird to say, but we *especially* like the endpapers. Mo Willems has great endpapers in his books. The front inside cover shows the pigeon daydreaming about driving a bus, and the last one shows him daydreaming about driving a truck, and for some reason this is The Funniest Thing Ever for the nieces.
This book will tend to hype a kid up. Not recommended for naptime, but definitely great for the more fidgety kids, who get distracted at storytime easily. It *demands* audience participation.
Great read for young kids Both my five year old kinder and two year old love this book. Well illustrated and funny enough for an adult to enjoy reading! Recommended.
Don't let the child miss this book! This simply phrased, simply illustrated, large-typeface children's picture book has been a hit with pre-readers and early elementary students, alike. In this 40-page, Caldecott Honor tale, less than 20 pages have words (then only one brief phrase or sentence) and the rest are simply-drawn pictures of Pigeon in various stages of frustration and elation. The book's conversational note gives very young children the feeling of being "in charge" of the story's outcome. Willems' Pigeon repeatedly asks early readers to give him permission to drive a bus. Willems, through his inventive artwork and reader-directed phrasing, has strategically given the young reader the authority and desire to answer "no" to Pigeon's requests, (usually aloud!) The book ends when Pigeon has a tantrum from having his bus-driving dreams thwarted by the young reader. He pouts, then notices a semi-tractor trailer sitting empty. He re-directs his dreams to that of driving a big truck, giving young readers both a lesson in not giving up on one's goals, and in understanding that being told "No" is sometimes in their own best interest.
Great interactive book to share with younger kids My kids loved this book. My five year old would read it to my three year old and they just roll over laughing! You can make this book very interactive with the kids. Very easy to read. Not a bedtime story book because the kids have so much fun answering the pigeon.
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