num_pages: 40
description: 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."Hey, can I drive the bus?" asks the bird, at first all sweet reason, and then, having clearly been told no by readers, he begins his ever-escalating, increasingly silly bargaining. "I tell you what: I'll just steer," and "I never get to do anything," then "No fair! I bet your mom would let me." In a wonderfully expressive spread, the pigeon finally loses it, and, feathers flying and eyeballs popping, screams "LET ME DRIVE THE BUS!!!" in huge, scratchy, black-and-yellow capital letters. The driver returns, and the pigeon leaves in a funk — until he spies a huge tractor trailer, and dares to dream again.
language: English
title: Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!
titlecomplete: Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!
characters: The Pigeon
genres: Birds, Fantasy, Kids, Picture Books, Childrens, Humor, Transport, Animals, Storytime, Fiction
ratings_count: 96643
series: Pigeon
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Caldecott Medal, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Kentucky Bluegrass Award
category: K-2, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Charlotte Zolotow Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Vermont's Picture Book Awards: Red Clover, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Picture Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Flicker Tale Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Golden Archer Award
category: Primary, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Buckaroo Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Indies Choice Book Award
category: Picture Book Hall of Fame, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CLEL Silver Bell Award
category: Talk
publisher: Scholastic