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Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals | Mo Willems
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Mo Willems As a child Mo grew up during the 1970s, so he always looked kind of goofy. One time in his school's art class, Mo's teacher told him to stop drawing cartoons all the time. She said big, boring drawings of fruit in a bowl that made people's eyes glaze over were A-R-T, but funny cartoons that made people laugh weren't. She was wrong. Mo had great truble speling when he was a kidd. As an adult Mo once met a man in Egypt who had built a huge sand temple about his life (which mostly consisted of images of him constructing a huge sand temple about his life). He dreamt of creating a one-to-one scale model of the desert. Mo drove a motorcyle in New York for about five years without a single accident. Then he realized he was lucky not to have an accident, so he bought a used Volvo. If Mo had known how cool having a wife and daughter was, he would have got them sooner. As an artist At age eighteen, Mo moved temporarily to London to pursue his dream of becoming a stand-up comic. He quickly established himself and somehow managed to get a spot in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before returning to America to become a film student. At New York University he discovered animation and quickly became entranced by the ability to make movies without having to beg a crew to help him. Here he discovered the work of Ronald Searle and the UPA animation studio, both of which influenced his deceptively simple, graphic drawing style. After graduating from college, he travelled around the world for a year, returning with ridiculous sideburns. A quick shave later, he returned to New York and became an animator and writer for TV, most notably for Sesame Street (where he won six Emmys for his writing). He then wrote for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Mo's first foray into children's books was the innovative Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, which appeared on many "best book" lists and won a prestigious American Prize, the Caldecott Honor, in 2004. He has encouraged thousands of children to yell "NOOOOOO!" in libraries. Mo hopes to devote an increasing percentage of his time writing and illustrating children's books. Things you didn't know about Mo Willems His shoe size. Mo once walked all the way across France with his dad (don't ask him why). Mo used to record a weekly Postcard from Brooklyn for BBC radio (kind of like Alistair Cooke's Letters From America only less good). Mo finds rain depressing. It's always raining when Mo goes on vacation. Mo's arch-enemy is PRINT-TOR, the evil spirit of vengeance that makes printing on any computer a near impossibility. Mo doesn't like sweets, but eats bags and bags of candy when he takes long drives. Mo reads really long, really boring books about history and everybody laughs at him, but he doesn't care what they say (much). Did you ever see that really great movie about a pig called Babe? Mo wasn't in that movie. Mo gets very bored very..
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Hello Littens!! Help me welcome my dear friend @Birdwing to Litsy!! 🥳 🎉 🎊 💕
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Deblovestoread Welcome! You will love it here. @Birdwing 2mo
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I‘m so excited to welcome my friend @Gilly18 to Litsy! Please welcome her! She‘s a huge book lover (and a talented crafter where we met). I want all my dear friends here on Litsy to show her how much fun we have here! Please share all we have to offer and follow her so she can start following you back. 😄

Gilda, check out @LitsyEvents for buddy reads and challenges, among many other events, that are going on in the Litsyverse right now.

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Librarybelle Welcome to Litsy, @Gilly18 ! And thanks for the tag, @Deblovestoread ! ❤️ 8mo
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TheSpineView Welcome! This is such a great community and hope you love it here. I cohost the #SeriesLove2024 challenge with @Andrew65 and the daily #PoetryMatters photo challenge. I also lead the #LitsySciFiBookClub if SciFi is your thing. @Gilly18 8mo
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CBee @Deblovestoread thanks for tagging me, Deb ♥️ And welcome, @Gilly18 😊😊 8mo
dabbe Welcome @Gilly18! And thanks for the tag, @Texreader! If you love snail mail and getting to know even more closely some awesome Littens, consider joining #LitsyLove; just tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks (our lovely leader), and let her know! @Cuilin and I are cohosting #NoPlaceLikeHolmes if you love Sherlock. There are also tons of other buddy reads: #NancyDrewBR, #pemberlittens, #hashtagbrigade, #AuthorAMonth, #BookSpin ... so much fun! 🤩😍😃 8mo
Read4life Welcome to Litsy, @Gilly18 🤓. This really is a great community. 8mo
Cuilin Thanks for the tag @Dabbe welcome 💐. @Gilly18 you‘ll love it here. I also host #BookedInTime if you enjoy historical fiction, join us. (edited) 8mo
dabbe @Cuilin Dang! How could I have forgotten that one? Actually, I ran out of spaces, but still! 🤩😍😘 8mo
Cuilin @dabbe I nearly forgot too. I was thinking of what to say after welcome, and then I remembered 🤦‍♀️ 8mo
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Please welcome new litten @KrisNelson
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Welcome @maddielikesbooks to Litsy!! Woo hoo everyone go say hello

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Cane we get a big Litsy #welcomewagon hello to @Cfuhr716 who just joined! She was looking for a new bookish community because FB was feeling too negative. OBVIOUSLY I suggested Litsy - such a fun positive place!

TheSpineView 😍Welcome to Litsy @Cfuhr716 the best bookish community around! 😍 4y
bibliobliss Welcome 💗📚 4y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Glad to have you on Litsy @Cfuhr716 !!! 4y
Tattooedteacher Hi there! Welcome to Litsy @Cfuhr716 4y
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Check it out! Announcing Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems! (free video series) ✏📚

Join the Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence at Home as Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every weekday at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing—starting today! #MoLunchDoodles

Learn more ⤵
kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems

ravenlee It actually started last Monday. There should be a week‘s worth archived. 5y
LiteraryinPA That‘s awesome! 5y
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"You don't have to be the same to be nice." Mo Willems

JoScho ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
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A fun guide from Mo Willems for anyone expecting a new arrival! #BEA17

Peddler410 I just bought two copies of this .... one for a coworker having her first child and one for .... well, me and my daughter! We love Mo Willems! (edited) 7y
ReadingRover @Peddler410 It's super cute! 7y
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