In the song, Smith meets a donkey on the road. The print version of a knee-slapping cumulative ditty. What could Pigeon have in mind now? “Egg delivery, anyone?”Ī stocking stuffer par excellence, just right for dishing up with milk and cookies. Also humbug.” In the typically minimalist art, the frustrated feathered one sports a floppily expressive green and red elf hat for this seasonal addition to the series-but then discards it at the end for, uh oh, a pair of bunny ears. Alas, as Willems’ legion of young fans will gleefully predict, not even Pigeon’s by-now well-honed persuasive powers (“I CAN BE JOLLY!”) will budge the sleigh’s large and stinky reindeer guardian. Whoa!” the badgering begins: “C’mon! Where’s your holiday spirit? It would be a Christmas MIRACLE! Don’t you want to be part of a Christmas miracle…?” Pigeon is determined: “I can do Santa stuff!” Like wrapping gifts (though the accompanying illustration shows a rather untidy present), delivering them (the image of Pigeon attempting to get an oversize sack down a chimney will have little ones giggling), and eating plenty of cookies. This time it’s Santa delivering the fateful titular words, and with a “Ho. Pigeon finds something better to drive than some old bus.

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