In 2019, Mo became the very first Education Artist-in-Residence for the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Leonardo is truly a terrible monster-terrible at being a monster that is.
Mo Willems has written and illustrated over 50 children's books for young readers. He also has a number of standalone children's books including Opposites Abstract, A Busy Creature's Day Eating, and Leonardo the Terrible Monster. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Mo Willems has three popular book series, The Pigeon Series, Elephant & Piggie Series and the Knuffle Bunny series. To date, Mo has been awarded three Caldecott Honor Awards, two Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal Awards, five Geisel Honors, six Emmy Awards, and many #1 New York Times best-selling books. Hyperion Book CH, Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages. Some of his books have been adapted into musical productions and are performed in several countries. Mo Willems is currently the author and illustrator of more than 50 books, including his most beloved characters Knuffle Bunny, the Pigeon, and Elephant & Piggie, whose books are now translated into over 25 languages around the world. In 2003, Mo wrote his first children’s picture book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, which went on to receive his first Caldecott Honor Award. He then worked for the Children’s Television Workshop as an award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Street from 1994 to 2002. After travelling for awhile and living in London as a comedian, Mo returned to the States and went to college, studying film and animation, earning a degree from New York University. He also acted and did stand-up comedy in high school. Mo drew cartoons all during his childhood, and was a big fan of the Peanuts cartoons by Charles Schultz.
Leonardo & Sam received its world premier streaming via the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in March, 2021.Mo Willems was born Maurice Charles Willems on Februin Des Plaines, Illinois, and grew up in New Orleans.
Kerry and Sam will need to make a big decision: will they be friends or will they be controlled by their fears?Īdapted from the beloved children’s books by Mo Willems, and realized through mind-bending puppetry, DIY cinema, music, and an original score by critically-acclaimed multimedia artists Manual Cinema, Leonardo & Sam tells the story of a monster who longs to be scary and the big decisions about identity and empathy that we all must make. Will Leonardo finally get his chance to scare the tuna salad out of an unsuspecting human? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship? The plot thickens when this pair meets Kerry and Frankenthaler, an even scaredier-cat and her monster friend. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. *THE TERRIBLE MONSTER AND THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT KID IN THE WHOLE WORLD, RESPECTIVELY
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