#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author and illustrator
[b]Are You Big? By Mo Willems[/b] is out in paperback on 21 March 2024, price £7.99
#1 New York Times bestselling author, Mo Willems tackles a BIG concept in this fantastic non-fiction picture book about the relationship between size and scale.
A simple question sends readers to the far reaches of the universe. From an average-size kid . . . to a hot air balloon . . . to a storm cloud . . . to the M100 Galaxy, size is a matter of perspective.
Bold text, expressive art, and real-world science come together in this original Mo Willems STEAM-based, early-learning concept book.
Willems puts the world into perspective for young readers through a simple progression of scale, travelling from the very little to as large as the universe.
ABOUT MO WILLEMS
Mo Willems is an author, illustrator, animator and playwright. Willems is best known for his #1 New York Times bestselling picture books which have been awarded three Caldecott Honors (Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale; Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity), and his celebrated ELEPHANT & PIGGIE early reader series which has been awarded two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors.
Mo’s art has been exhibited around the world, including major solo retrospectives at the High Museum (Atlanta) and the New-York Historical Society (New York City). Over the last decade, Willems has become the most-produced playwright of Theatre for Young Audiences in America, having written or co-written four musicals based on his books.
He was the inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in Residence (2019–2022), and he continues to collaborate in creating fun new stuff involving classical music, opera, comedy concerts, dance, painting and digital works with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Ben Folds, Yo-Yo Ma and others.
He began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards for writing. Other television work includes two series on Cartoon Network: Sheep in the Big City (creator and head writer) and Codename: Kids Next Door (head writer). Mo’s recent TV projects include the live-action comedy special Don’t Let the Pigeon Do Storytime! and an animated rock opera special based on Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, which originally premiered on HBO Max. His papers reside at Yale University’s Beinecke Library.
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- Features on Mo Willems -
o Sunday Today Show, “Author Mo Willems reflects on 20 years of beloved children’s books” (June 2023)
o CBS Mornings, “Mo Willems on how he hopes the Pigeon inspires the next generation of authors, illustrators” (December 2023)
o New York Times, “By the Book” (September 2022)
o Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, “Mo Willems Teaches Jimmy How to Draw a Pigeon Using Only His First Name” (May 2023)
o New York Times, “Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance” (June 2022)
o Edutopia, “Mo Willems on the Lost Art of Being Silly” (February 2020)
o NPR Morning Edition, “Kids’ Author Mo Willems Has a New Creative Challenge (And So Should You)” (July 2019)
o The New Yorker, “Mo Willems’s Funny Failures” (January 2017)
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