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Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
by Mo Willems
About this Story
"Friendship, Kindness, Support"
“Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” is pure toddler-crack—like espresso for 4-year-olds (but legal, and frowns less from librarians). Mo Willems godsmashed bedtime rules with this one. Plot? No. It’s 40 pages of a bird having a full tantrum (NFT artists: take notes). The bus driver peace’s out in the first line (“sorry kid, rules are rules”), leaving YOU holding a bus key… and a pigeon dripping Mel Robbins-level persuasion (“Heyyy, I bet your mom lets you drive dinosaur submarines!“).
Why it slaps parents awake at 2 AM:
🚌 Kid-Power Trip: Toddlers finally get to yell “NO!” at someone else’s bad choices (justice tastes like goldfish crackers).
🚆 Art Hack: Willems’ scraggly lines somehow make a bird’s eyebrow cut you with sass (New Yorker cartoonists weep softly).
🚎 Therapy Bonus: It’s basically “Boundaries for Tiny Dictators: The Board Book.”
Glaring Omissions (because humanity’s messy):
☑️ Zero facts about actual pigeons (do they even have drivers’ licenses?)
☑️ The pigeon’s very concerning obsession with heavy machinery
☑️ Willems definitely wrote this after a single 5-hour flight with toddlers