Genre Category: Picture Book
Source: Caldecott Honor Book, 2004
Age Group: Ages 2-4
Assessment of the book’s quality: The book uses simple line drawings in light pastel colors and has a very humorous and engaging text that invites the child to respond to it.
Assessment of the book’s potential use: It can be recommended for pleasure and leisure reading as well as during storytime for preschoolers and toddlers.
Assessment of the book’s child appeal: The rather plain presentation will hold the child's interest and help him/her concentrate on the subject, as the characters - the pigeon in this case is looking at the reader when he talks. Children will also be attracted to the humorous and funny arguments in the book.
Summary:
"Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" is a humorous and amusing story about a naughty and cajoling pigeon who uses every technique to persuade the reader to let him drive the bus. But when the bus’s driver leaves the bus, he gives the reader just one instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus". But this particular pigeon will try every trick to get in the driving seat. He whines and fibs and flatters: “"Your MUM said that I could...", "I'll give you five pounds!"
Reaction and Impressions:
It’s interactive and makes children to respond and talk aloud. It’s humorous and makes children laugh. And children easily relate to the pigeon character, because the pigeon uses the same techniques as a preschooler would use to convince his parents or friends to let them do something.
" A brilliantly simple book that is absolutely true to life, as anyone who interacts with an obdurate three-year-old can attest. The bus driver has to leave for a while, and he makes one request of readers: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus." It's the height of common sense, but the driver clearly knows this determined pigeon and readers do not-yet."_ School Library Journal
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