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The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon)

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The Duckling asks for a cookie — and gets one! Do you think the Pigeon is happy about that?
Amazon Best Books of the Month for Kids, April 2012: The Pigeon is back (hooray!) and this time the drama centers on an adorable little duckling who gets a cookie just by asking–politely. Just by asking?! Politely reminds the duckling, but the Pigeon is already off on a hilarious rant about the entire things he asks for–many of which readers of the earlier Pigeon books will remember that–ending with the all-too-familiar refrain, “It’s not fair.” Creator Mo Willems adds a new twist to this Pigeon story by juxtaposing Pigeon’s familiar high volume theatrics with the calm simplicity of a soft-spoken duckling. As a parent, I appreciate the book’s message about the power of politeness and the rewards of sharing (warning: cookies are involved), yet the story never loses the jovial, high-spirited quality that makes the Pigeon books so popular with kids and the adults who read to them. –Seira Wilson

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Back in 1993, I used to be cartooning for a ’zine. Because of a lack of other material, we determined 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 once complaining that his ideas were better than mine. To mollify him, I put him in that year’s sketchbook. The original sketchbook was once much longer than the final published volume, but one of the most 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 once 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 once “peculiar,” an editor determined that “peculiar” was once a good thing. Plus, it made her laugh. I began reworking and rewriting. The Pigeon was once now starting to look more like his mature self. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was once published in April 2003 and, to my surprise, proved to be popular somewhat quickly. Thankfully, that Pigeon doodle in the notebook back in 1997 was once so insistent. He was once right!

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