Book review: Pigeon Wants A Puppy! by Mo Willems

Reader #68 wrote: If you are not familiar with the Pigeon stories, you need to get acquainted. ( Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Pigeon Finds A Hotdog, Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late, just to name a few) The Pigeon Wants a Puppy is the newest one out. In the story Pigeon is talking to you, the reader, about his dream to have a puppy. My daughter is 5 and just loves the Pigeon, and why not... he speaks just like they do when they want something. The author, Mo Willems, has put together another book showing the art of persuasion that most children just seem to have built into their young minds. Any parent that has had to say no to a child will love these books because it has all the pleas in there. My daughter made me read it twice in one sitting. She read it to her grandmother the next day using the same emphasis on the words that the book demands with the larger print and exclamation points. Mo Willems has created a character that makes not only our children laugh, but we end up laughing, too.