The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.

Needing to brush his teeth, a bus driver asks the reader to make sure that the pigeon goes to bed on time-- but the bird has many excuses about why it should stay awake.

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.

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

As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

"Though war rages across mainland Europe and London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Adrift since her best friend, George, joined the Royal Air Force, twenty-two-year-old Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Desperate to do her bit, Olive hopes that the National Pigeon Service will enlist...

A combination of humor and artistry presents the facts on pigeons.

While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.

Pigeon experiences an emotional loop-de-loop as he anticipates his turn to ride the roller coster.

Sid and Midge, two pigeons, have a nest in a sign in a San Francisco hotel, but trouble comes when workmen come to take the sign away.