Pigeon learns about sharing when a curious duckling keeps asking questions about the hot dog Pigeon has found.

Pigeon is very angry when the duckling gets a cookie just by asking politely.

Pigeon experiences a loop-de-loop of emotions before his first roller coaster ride.

As London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her racing pigeons, hoping that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not...

No matter how hard he pleads and begs, the pigeon is not supposed to drive the bus while the driver is away, but pigeon tries every persuasive trick a young child knows to get you to say, "Yes."

The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.

"A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn"--

"A collection of aphorisms from The Pigeon."-- "Some pigeons are born for greatness. Some pigeons achieve greatness. And then there's The Pigeon. Now, for the last time ever, The Pigeon imparts tips, thoughts, opinions, quotes, complaints, and basic philosophical misunderstandings in their profound collection of Pigeon-isms." --Front jacket flap.