They love each other so much and this shines through in every book. His best friend, Piggie, is a light-hearted, fun-loving person who is brave. Gerald is a spectacle-wearing elephant who is a bit of an old fuddy-duddy. These Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems are SO POPULAR right now, and with good reason.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door.
Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's."
In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES *"Accessible, appealing, and full of authetic emotions about what makes friendships tick, these titles will put a contemporary shine on easy reader collections."- Booklist (starred review), PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES * "These masterful mini-dramas will delight and amuse easy-reader and picture-book audiences, alike."- School Library Journal (starred review), PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES "Willems manages to hit that singular moment where even the most restrained readers can't help but bark out a laugh."- BCCB, PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES "Willems manages to hit that singular moment where even the most restrained readers can't help but bark out a laugh.", PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES *"Accessible, appealing, and full of authetic emotions about what makes friendships tick, these titles will put a contemporary shine on easy reader collections.", PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT & PIGGIE SERIES * "These masterful mini-dramas will delight and amuse easy-reader and picture-book audiences, alike."- School Library Journal (starred review), PRAISE FOR THE ELEPHANT PIGGIE SERIES * "These masterful mini-dramas will delight and amuse easy-reader and picture-book audiences, alike.#1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale.
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