Waiting on Wednesday: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh by Mo Willems

Image: Union Square & Co.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh by Mo Willems. 40 p. Union Square Kids/ Union Square & Co., September 5, 2023. 9781454952770.

Happy Wednesday! Well yesterday brought quite a thunderstorm here in northern NJ! All that rain on top of me making a massive sprinkler mistake. I turned a zone on manually and didn't notice that the time was blank until an hour and a half later when I took the garbage out! Yikes! What a waste of water. I cringe every time I think about it.

Waiting on Wednesday features #nevertoooldforpicturebooks fun. I was skimming through the coming soon section on the BN site for inspiration and saw that a new PIGEON book is coming! Yes! I adore Pigeon! Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh is releasing on September 5! 

Here's the publisher synopsis: The holidays have arrived early! Everyone's favorite Pigeon is back ... and this time asking a very important question of us all. What's the reason for the season? It's driving a sleigh! Mo always delights, and for those yearning to celebrate the merriest of seasons, we can do it all year 'round. Ho-Ho-Hopefully you'll join the Pigeon and drive the sleigh!

From #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems comes a new holiday classic.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for driving a sleigh! ’Tis also the season—for driving a sleigh! Oh, and joy to the—driving a sleigh! The Pigeon has made a list and checked it once. Can his holiday dream come true? Or will The Pigeon be left out in the cold?

You’ll share some HO-HO-HOs and HA-HA-HAs finding out in three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems’ ninth Pigeon book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!

What is your favorite pigeon book?