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===1997-1998 Draft=== | ===1997-1998 Draft=== | ||
This is the earliest draft we know of the book, | This is the earliest draft we know of the book, Its year of creation is unknown but it's probably 1997 or 1998. | ||
It also has a red question mark on the back of the cover. | It also has a red question mark on the back of the cover, presumably from the Curious Pictures logo. | ||
===1998 Sketchbook=== | ===1998 Sketchbook=== | ||
Revision as of 12:18, 2 January 2022
The cover for the 1998 Don't let The Pigeon drive the bus sketchbook.
Status: Partially Found
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus is a children's book published in 2003 by Mo Willems about a Pigeon that wants to drive a bus, so a bus driver had to leave and asked the reader to not allow the Pigeon to drive the bus. Before the book was released, some drafts have been created for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus with dates from 1997 to 2003.
1997-1998 Draft
This is the earliest draft we know of the book, Its year of creation is unknown but it's probably 1997 or 1998. It also has a red question mark on the back of the cover, presumably from the Curious Pictures logo.
1998 Sketchbook
After The Pigeon was created in a general 1997 sketchbook, One of the first drafts have been created, known as the 1998 version of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus Sketchbook. The sketchbook was longer then the final version, but it still had some pages that survived in the final version.
1999 Sketch
After the 1998 sketchbook, a sketch was created in 1999, and added color. You can see a difference in The Pigeon's design at that time, as he originally had an orange collar instead of white one.
Late-2001-2002 Version
3 years after the 1999 sketch, Mo Willems created a "late-2001-2002" version of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. This version was closer to the final one.
Availability
Some pages of the drafts has been surfaced online at the Amazon listing of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.[1]
In 2020, Mo Willems posted the first episode of Lunch Doodles, an educational show made for Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence at Home during COVID-19 lockdown. In that episodes, Mo Willems showed some stuff from the drafts in this episode.[2]
