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Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!-Mo Willems August 21, 2007

Mo Willems’ (I do love this guy.) book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, creates the most interesting problem in my library. The story shows us a very determined pigeon yearning to drive a bus. As the bus driver has asked us not to let that happen, we’ve got our work cut out for us. The students are the “No!” people and I get to do the pleading. The problem? The word “No.” Now, as any child knows, the word must be used just right. We can’t have a wimpy “No.”-you know, the one that has a question mark at the end, the one that says to the child, “Ahh, just two and a half more deliciously annoying whines and she’s toast.” nor can we have the yelled “NO!”. (There are classes next door, for Pete’s sake.) So we settle for the firm “I mean it but I’m not going to maim you No.” So it begins. The pleadings, (Oh, I’m so good at this.) the “No’s”. The pleadings, the “No’s”. This until the bus driver comes back and (Da-Dah!) success. The pigeon disconsolately fades into the…Wait! What’s that? A Semi?

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Written and Illustrated by Mo Willems
Accelerated Reader RL 0.9
(Review by Letha)