If you give a moose a pigeon

Storytime is my favourite part of everyday.  Not that I don't enjoy other parts of the day, but bedtime almost always goes well.  Its relaxing, and Alasdair loves sitting and listening to the stories.  He goes through phases of favourite stories, and they usually change often enough that I don't get bored.  Right now his favourite is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems.  Way back in January I had ordered it along with When You Give a Moose a Muffin from our daycare scholastic order.  We were familiar with a couple of the other If you give a ... books, but the pigeon was new to us.  And I wasn't too sure about it either.  It was a long wait but finally the books came in.  On the way home from daycare (or actually on the way to meet Nana and Uncle Greg to look at a house) I gave Alasdair the Moose book to keep him busy.  He sat in the back flipping through it and I was so proud of him.  I flipped through the pigeon book, and couldn't make heads or tails of it as I sat at the stop lights.
But by the end of the evening, it had become Alasdair's favourite book.  Even though this book is an example of one of my pet peaves about children's books - all the no, no, no.  You know, "Is the puppy hiding in the cupboard?" "No." "Is she under the stairs?" "No." - we both get a kick out of it.  Yes, the point is to say no to the pigeon.  But I get to do fun voices and feel like an actor.  And, it's about a bus.  I'm not sure who Alasdair is cheering for, the pigeon or the bus driver, and I don't know if I'll ever convince him that the tire on the 2nd last page belongs to a truck and not a tractor (perhaps the book's anti-peer pressure message really has got through to him) but that book gets read two, three and maybe even four times a day around here.