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Midterm Paper: Mo Willems

Searching through the rows of picture books on the library shelves, I was caught by the gaze of a stick-figured pigeon. Initially I had another illustrator in mind, however the pigeon had me transfixed and I had to write about Mo Willems. Amazingly, the same pigeon also caught the eye of an editor after numerous rejections for five years and helped Mo Willems publish his first picture book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Hume, 2008). Mo Willems is significant to the field of children’s literature because his experience in this subject is unparalleled. For nine years he was a writer and animator for Sesame Street and won six Emmy awards for his works on the show (Patton, 2006). The animated television series Sheep in the Big City and The Off-Beats were also his creations as well as being the head writer for Cartoon Network’s Codename: Kids Next Door. (Net Industries, 2008). Even “The New York Times heralded Mo Willems as the biggest talent......

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