it's a stop motion animation class, and to start easy, our teacher wanted us to make mini flip-o-rama's (like from Captian Underpants)
and to explain the assignment, he pulled up a video where the artist/author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus was making a flip animation with the pigeon from the book [I literally had not thought about this book since kindergarten/1st grade]
And then, we were just drawing/coloring very rudimentary drawings! It felt like kindergarten all over again! He was even coming around to check on our mini flip animations 😂😭
[so yeah, I just about regressed in class lol]
This was my attempt at making the "Crowley's Glasses Falling" gif 😂
I give you a silly book! "Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" written and illustrated by Mo Willems. One of my favorites.
[ID Start: the front cover of aforementioned children's book. The title is on the left in big, but thin, slab serifs, and looks to be spoken by Willems' name on the book cover. To the right is an exaggerated cartoon drawing of a light blue pigeon looking over its shoulder. The background is yellow and there is a Caldecott Honor Book metal embossed on the top right corner. /End ID.]
As a parent, you end up reading a lot of children’s books. Some are good. Some aren’t. Most are vaguely cute but pointless.
In a sea of meaningless media, I’m standing loud and proud as a HUGE fan of the Pigeon books by Mo Willems. My fellow millennials will remember him as the guy who made Sheep in the Big City. These Pigeon books are honestly a very good, aged down, spiritual successor.
Pigeon is stubborn and almost always wrong but he’s good hearted and always comes around in the end. He thinks in much the same way an actual child does. The lessons in the books aren’t super deep but they’re what kids need to hear where they’re at in life. You need this bath. You do need to go to school. Roller coasters are fun. Etc, etc.
It’s just a good time of whacky fun with a recognizable character. It’s exactly what children’s books should be. I ADORE them.