Mo Willems by Erin Graham https://padlet.com/graham_erin/lprrt72zsu8a Author Study en-us 2020-02-09 17:26:28 UTC 2020-02-11 19:31:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png AUTHOR'S BACKGROUND graham_erin https://padlet.com/graham_erin/lprrt72zsu8a/wish/442719446
  • Born in 1968 in Des Plaines, Illinois
  • Mo began drawing and creating his own story characters at 3 years old
  • Attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he had minor success publishing a few short films
  • After college, Mo traveled the world for a year drawing one cartoon a day. He later published this in an annotated carton journal called You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons
  • From 1993-2002 Mo worked as a cartoonist and writer for Sesame Street 
  • Married his wife Cheryl in Brooklyn, NY 1997
  • Performed stand up comedy in NYC
  • Willems left his career in television and became a stay-at-home father for his daughter
  • He and his wife have one daughter named Trixie
  • Currently lives in Massachusetts with his family
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  • Mo’s goal ever since he was a child was not to get polite comments on his stories which could be faked, but to get laughter.  You can’t fake that!
  • Won six Emmys while working as a writer for PBS’s Sesame Street
  • Has two Caldecott Honor winning picture books, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
  • Won two Geisel Medals and two Geisel Honors for his Elephant and Piggie books
  • Was creator and head writer of Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City 
  • Head writer of television series Codename: Kids Next Door 
  • Has art and cartoons exhibited around the world, including pieces at the High Museum in Atlanta and the New-York Historical Society
  • Regarding e-books, Mo said, “A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally”
  • Inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence: writes, produces, and collaborates with the National Symphony Orchestra to make stuff involving classical music, jazz experiences, comedy concerts, dance, painting, and digital works
  • The Pigeon from Don’t Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus is drawn somewhere in every book Mo has ever illustrated
  • Mo does not have a Twitter but the Pigeon does, @The_Pigeon

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  • Animal characters
  • Speech Bubbles
  • Characters talking to the reader
  • Epilogues
  • Creative front and back inside covers
  • Humor- Hilarious facial expressions and funny contexts
  • simple text, emphasis on "reading" the illustrations
  • Repeated characters: Trixie, The Pigeon, Elephant and Piggie
  • simplistic 2D cartoons
  • Knuffle Bunny series about his daughter and life in Brooklyn NY


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  • Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, 2003
  • Knuffle Bunny Too, A Case of Mistaken Identity, 2007
  • Knuffle Bunny Free, An Unexpected Diversion, 2010
  • Knuffle Bunny, A Cautionary Tale, 2004
  • There is a Bird on Your Head, 2007
  • My Friend is Sad, 2007
  • We Are in a Book, 201p
  • City Dog, Country Frog, 2010
  • Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, 2012

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