"The Pigeon is dirty and he needs a bath, but he won't go willingly"--

In this hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems ("Sesame Street, Sheep in the City") perfectly captures a preschooler's temper tantrum in this story of a pigeon who pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book. Full color.

Pigeon learns about sharing when a curious duckling keeps asking questions about the hot dog Pigeon has found.

As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

Gary, a racing pigeon who cannot fly, winds up lost in the big city, where he finds the big adventure he has been searching for.

Telling a story about pigeons should be simple. But what's a narrator to do when the number of feathered friends is constantly changing? Can our intrepid storyteller use math facts to keep up with the unstable quantities...or is this pigeon-centric tale doomed?

The pigeon really, really wants to drive the sleigh.

Pigeon learns about sharing when a curious duckling keeps asking questions about the hot dog Pigeon has found.

During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching...

A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.