![]() ![]() The Pigeon showed up one day while I was trying to write a great picture book - this before I had ever been published - and The Pigeon said, don't. He spends years thinking about them, developing them, figuring out the stories they'll be a part of. ISABELLA GOMEZ SARMIENTO, BYLINE: Mo Willems says most of the characters in his children's books are born in an idea garden. As NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports, the Pigeon made his operatic debut at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. But last weekend, readers got to see and hear a brand new side of the bossy bird. This month marks 20 years since Mo Willems published his first picture book, "Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!" It has sold more than 6 million copies and received a Caldecott honor. ![]()
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