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| - Willems first became interested in cartoon art when he was just a child. When he was 3 or 4 he started to draw and create his own characters. Willems enjoyed writing stories about his characters to share with others. However, he became very disappointed when adults would constantly praise his work out of politeness. To fix this dilemma Willems started writing funny stories. He knew that even polite adults could not fake a laugh. So when the adults laughed he knew his story was good and if the adults still gave polite comments then he knew his story was bad.
- Mo Willems (b. 1968) is an Animator and Writer who works in both capacities on Sesame Street, writing and contributing countless Episodes on Madeline (TV series) and designed and directed the opening for "Elmo's World". As as Writer, Willems contributed scripts for Sesame Street since Season 24 and Madeline (TV series) since season 6. He created and Animated many Cartoon Segments starring Suzie Kabloozie, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, as well as other spots and he also wrote and directed the Home Video release The Alphabet Jungle Game. As an Animator, he did sequences he wrote for Madeline with his assistant Animator, D.B. Sweeney. He also animated Curly for Madeline: Lost in Paris as well as other Characters.
- Willems started his career as a writer and animator for Sesame Street, where he earned six Emmy Awards for writing during his tenure from 1993 to January 2002. He then created the KaBlam! short The Off-Beats, where it ran on the show's first two seasons. Willems went to Cartoon Network to create Sheep in the Big City, where it was a success with the critics but ultimately failed to attract sufficient viewership and was canceled after two seasons. Mo Willems currently resides in Massachusetts with his wife and their daughter Trixie.
- In a 2010 interview, Willems remembered getting hired at Sesame Street: “When I got there I was making films for grown-ups. I was really happy to get the job because it paid the rent and I was getting to write sketch comedy. That's what Sesame Street is. It was at Sesame Street that I learned how to write for children. I wrote a lot of Elmo and a character called Baby Bear. By the time I was gone I realized this was where I wanted my career to be.”
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| - In a 2010 interview, Willems remembered getting hired at Sesame Street: “When I got there I was making films for grown-ups. I was really happy to get the job because it paid the rent and I was getting to write sketch comedy. That's what Sesame Street is. It was at Sesame Street that I learned how to write for children. I wrote a lot of Elmo and a character called Baby Bear. By the time I was gone I realized this was where I wanted my career to be.” Outside of Sesame Street, Willems created the Cartoon Network series Sheep in the Big City (which at various times featured Sesame Street cast members Joey Mazzarino, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Fran Brill, Ruth Buzzi and Jerry Nelson). He also wrote for Codename: Kids Next Door and created the "Off-Beats" interstitials for Nickelodeon. More recently, Willems has shifted to writing and illustrating children's books, including Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Leonardo the Terrible Monster.
- Willems started his career as a writer and animator for Sesame Street, where he earned six Emmy Awards for writing during his tenure from 1993 to January 2002. He then created the KaBlam! short The Off-Beats, where it ran on the show's first two seasons. Willems went to Cartoon Network to create Sheep in the Big City, where it was a success with the critics but ultimately failed to attract sufficient viewership and was canceled after two seasons. He later worked as head writer on the first four seasons of Codename: Kids Next Door, created by one of his colleagues from Sheep in the Big City, Tom Warburton. He left the show to pursue his writing career. Three of Willems' books have been awarded a Caldecott Honor: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2004), Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (2005), and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (2008). Recently he has been creating the Elephant and Piggie books, an early reader series about a friendly elephant and pig. Those books won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal in 2008 and 2009, and Geisel Honors in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2010, Willems introduced a new series of books featuring Cat the Cat, also aimed at early readers. Mo Willems currently resides in Massachusetts with his wife and their daughter Trixie.
- Willems first became interested in cartoon art when he was just a child. When he was 3 or 4 he started to draw and create his own characters. Willems enjoyed writing stories about his characters to share with others. However, he became very disappointed when adults would constantly praise his work out of politeness. To fix this dilemma Willems started writing funny stories. He knew that even polite adults could not fake a laugh. So when the adults laughed he knew his story was good and if the adults still gave polite comments then he knew his story was bad.
- Mo Willems (b. 1968) is an Animator and Writer who works in both capacities on Sesame Street, writing and contributing countless Episodes on Madeline (TV series) and designed and directed the opening for "Elmo's World". As as Writer, Willems contributed scripts for Sesame Street since Season 24 and Madeline (TV series) since season 6. He created and Animated many Cartoon Segments starring Suzie Kabloozie, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, as well as other spots and he also wrote and directed the Home Video release The Alphabet Jungle Game. As an Animator, he did sequences he wrote for Madeline with his assistant Animator, D.B. Sweeney. He also animated Curly for Madeline: Lost in Paris as well as other Characters.
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