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Drive kids to read with this poster and bookmark featuring everyone’s favorite bus-obsessed bird.Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems’ first children’s picture book is celebrating its 16th birthday this year and The Pigeon is angling for a driver’s license.Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!received the 2004 Caldecott Honor and the animated adaption won the 2010 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video. Download a Pigeon Driver’s License activity sheet at.

Recently Willems was named the Kennedy Center’s first ever “Education Artist-In-Residence.” He is currently working on a musical production ofDon’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!that will premiere at the Center at the end of the year. In the meantime, look forThe Pigeon HAS to Go to School!on July 2.

Special thanks to Disney-Hyperion and Mo Willems for original art.