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Title Author
Call Number
Resource Type: Books
Don't Let The Pidgeon Drive The Bus!
PreSchool-Grade 2-
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.
"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. Like David Shannon's No, David (Scholastic, 1998), Pigeon is an unflinching
and hilarious look at a child's potential for mischief. In a plain palette, with childishly elemental line drawings,
Willems has captured the essence of unreasonableness in the very young. The genius of this book is that the
very young will actually recognize themselves in it.
-From School Library Journal
Don't Let The Pidgeon Drive The Bus!
PreSchool-Grade 2-
Willems, Mo
FIC .032 WIL
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.
"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. Like David Shannon's No, David (Scholastic, 1998), Pigeon is an unflinching
and hilarious look at a child's potential for mischief. In a plain palette, with childishly elemental line drawings,
Willems has captured the essence of unreasonableness in the very young. The genius of this book is that the
very young will actually recognize themselves in it.
-From School Library Journal
Willems, Mo
FIC .032 WIL
Drive-Thru Menu Math (Beginning Money Remedia Publications
610 .187 REM
Skills)
From burgers to burritos, nearly everything you might order from a fast food restaurant can be found on the two
colourful menus included in this hands-on, practical math book. Students solve computation and real-life word
problems by referring to the highly visual drive-thru menus. Figuring food costs, computing taxes and making
change are just a few of the skills covered in this hands on series. Math objectives are clearly stated on each
page, making it easy to focus on the skills your students need most. Drive-Thru Menu Math: Beginning Money
Skills teaches simple addition, subtraction and multiplication using visual cues for students with limited reading
skills. Recommended for grades 1-2.
Duck on a Bike
Shannon, David
FIC .035 SHA
One day down on the farm, Duck got a wild idea. "I bet I could ride a bike," he thought. He waddled over to where
a boy had parked his bike, and climbed on, and began to ride. At first he rode slowly and he wobbled a lot, but it
was fun! Duck rides past Sheep, Horse, and all the other barnyard animals and when a group of kids ride by on
their bikes, leaving them to go into the farmhouse - all of the animals get to ride bikes, just like Duck!
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