{"id":101,"date":"2008-05-05T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/review-of-the-pigeon-wants-a-puppy-by-mo-willems\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T01:24:42","slug":"review-of-the-pigeon-wants-a-puppy-by-mo-willems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, by Mo Willems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image138\" height=\"180\" alt=\"pigeon_wants_puppy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pigeon_wants_puppy.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pigeon Wants a Puppy, <\/em>by Mo Willems<\/p>\n<p>Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigeonpresents.com\/\">http:\/\/www.pigeonpresents.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com\/\">http:\/\/www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That wonderfully persuasive, pleading (well, demanding) Pigeon is back!\u00a0 This time &#8212; could it be? &#8212; it looks like he will get what he wants!\u00a0 But it doesn&#8217;t turn out quite like he planned.<\/p>\n<p>As always, it&#8217;s truly amazing how much emotion Mo Willems can convey with a few simple cartoon lines.\u00a0\u00a0 The Pigeon bends his knee winsomely when he thinks of what he wants.\u00a0 He narrows his eyes when he says, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want me to be happy, do you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten to test this out on a few kids, and the inevitable reaction is, &#8220;Read it again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve gotta love the Pigeon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1423109600\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\"><font color=\"#0b76ae\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/pigeon_wants_puppy.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/pigeon_wants_puppy.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Pigeon Wants a Puppy, by Mo Willems Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 2008.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.pigeonpresents.com\/ http:\/\/www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com\/ That wonderfully persuasive, pleading (well, demanding) Pigeon is back!\u00a0 This time &#8212; could it be? &#8212; it looks like he will get what he wants!\u00a0 But it doesn&#8217;t turn out quite like he planned. As always, it&#8217;s truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}