![]() ![]() He is best known for the Caldecott Honor winning picture books “Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale” and “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus”. Mo feels more freedom writing books than he had writing for television, too. He liked the idea of having lunch with his entire family each day, and he just wanted to be back in a business that allowed him to work from home. In the year 2003, he left his career in television in order to become a stay-at-home dad for his daughter. If they adults laughed, he knew the tale was actually good and it was a bad story if they still gave out polite comments.Īfter graduating from Tisch, he spent an entire year traveling around the entire world drawing, one cartoon each day, which got published in “You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons”. He realized that even the most polite adults were unable to fake a laugh. To combat this, he began penning funny tales. Willems enjoyed penning tales about the characters he created and shared them with others, but got disappointed when adults just praised his work to be polite. He started drawing and creating his own characters around the age of three or four. Mo initially became interested in cartoon art when he was a little kid. ![]() He graduated cum laude from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He grew up in New Orleans, where he graduated from Isidore Newman School and Trinity Episcopal School. Illustrator and author Mo Willems was born in Des Plaines, Illinois on February 11, 1968. ![]()
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