About this Item
Stated First Edition 2003. Willems' first book for children, and received the Caldecott Honor. The Caldecott medallion sticker on the book's cover. Clean and sharp bright and birdy! "The plot is about a bus driver who has to leave so he asks the reader to not allow the Pigeon to drive the bus. The Pigeon wants to have at least one ride and comes up with various excuses to drive the bus but the readers keep on telling him "NO!", which aggravates the Pigeon.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1713722171804
Bibliographic Details
Title: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Mo Willems
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
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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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