Originally Posted by Mana
For those of you with little fans of Mo Willems:

http://www.gomo.net/page.php?name=Games

I am not too crazy about the pigeon books. DD thinks it's funny to impersonate the pigeon and while she might think it's funny, it's really not that funny to me.The elephant and Piggie series, however, is a great teaching tool. It's all about friendship, situational humor, and physical comedy. The character's facial expressions are very easy to read and they match the sentence on the page precisely.

The books that have fun "I Spy" features are:

- Knuffle Bunny Too (you'd have to read a pigeon book and Leonardo the Terrible Monster first)

- Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (the pigeon appears three times, I believe)

Others have cameo appearances too but I really enjoyed those two books. Mo Willems is a very popular author so you should be able to borrow all of his books from your local library.

The pigeon was what made me love him in the first place, but I think it depends on the kid. My oldest can see and understand why it is funny but also that the pigeon is not a good role model! Sort of the same deal with Junie B. Jones--I read the whole series to my oldest, realized after "Junie B. Jones is a hair-cut guy" that it was a bad idea to read to the youngest. But...I still risk it and read the pigeon ones to her. He just makes me laugh too hard to keep it from her!