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Mo Willems Biography

Mo Willems (born February 11, 1968) is an American writer, animator, voice actor, and creator of children's books.

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Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.

Aesthetic, Book, Elephantine, Input, Large, Philosophical

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

Amanda, Beat, Beats, Book, Books, Boredom

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

Chocolate, Hey, Hot, Pudding

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

Book, Favorite, Make, My Favorite, Next

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

Decision, Grow, Make, Starting Over, Ways

I've been lucky enough to have made enough of these types of children's books that while I don't necessarily know what works, I know what doesn't work. I've got a sense of the rhythm and the form. With this series, I get to play with ideas that I would never have myself.

Book, Enough, Lucky, Play, Rhythm, Works

I bet your mom would let me. " -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

Bet, Bus, Let, Mom, Pigeons

Aggle flabble kabble. . . snurp?

Aggle, Flabble, Kabble, Snurp

Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we're picking artists who have a voice already. They have a sensibility. I don't want to make a book about blades of grass. That doesn't interest me. I want to make a book that Laurie Keller uses to express herself in this format. That's the key. That's what's going to keep it individual.

Artist, Artists, Book, Google, Interest, Reading

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

Artist, Craftsman, Understand, Waiting, Work

I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting. Laurie Keller is a character person, so she came to the project with these blades-of-grass characters that we were able to literally grow a story around.

Character, Different, Literally, People, Story

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over. There are all kinds of really powerful things in that moment, which is what makes story work. Part of Laurie's Keller personality is this ability to revise, to come back and to look at things from a different angle. I don't want to tell stories too much out of school, but Laurie Keller is the only person who sent me a card on my birthday and then sent me a revision.

Angle, Part, Person, Powerful, School, Starting Over

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Ideas, Library, Life Changing, Pictures, Useless