The pigeon in Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is just pure child. I know, certainly from my childhood, that all I was being told was, “No. No, no, no.” So, it’s so great to be able to yell “No!”. I think it’s very punk rock. I go to a library, and I’ve got 500 kids yelling at the top of their lungs, “No!” to me in a library. That just rocks. It’s a very super-cool thing.
The trick is to be able to deny this character its very essence, what it wants more than anything else and, at the same time, have sympathy for that character. I think it says a great thing for the empathy of children and adults who laugh at this - that they can deny this bird and still like him.
