Mo Willems
Mo Willems was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on February 11th, 1968 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 56, Mo Willems biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Mo Willems (born February 11, 1968) is an American writer, animator, voice actor, and author of children's books.
He specializes in television animation, Including production of the animated television series Sheep for Cartoon Network, as well as working on Sesame Street, The Muppets, and The Off-Beats.
Personal life
In 1997, Cheryl Camp married Cheryl Camp in Brooklyn, New York. They live in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Career
Willems spent a year travelling around the world drawing a cartoon every day, some of which were included in the book You Can't Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons.
He began his writing career on Sesame Street, where he received six Emmy Awards for writing from 1993 to 2002. Susie Kabloozie, her pet cat, Feff, was one of the segments he wrote and animated for the show. During this time, he also appeared in NYC and wrote essays for BBC Radio, as well as producing a commercial for Cartoon Network and animating the opening for a show on Nickelodeon. In the Big City for Cartoon Network, he produced two animated television series, The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon and Sheep. Sheep in the Big City was a hit among the critics, but the critics had trouble finding enough followers and was cancelled after two seasons. Willems served as the head writer on Codename: Kids Next Door, a children's magazine created by one of his Sheep, Tom Warburton co-founders. He left the show to pursue his writing career.
Willems has published many books for young children, several of which have received critical acclaim. Willems was described as "the best new talent to emerge so far in the 00's" by the New York Times Book Review, as well as his pigeon characterization as "one of this decade's contributions to the pantheon of great picture book characters." He also writes the Elephant and Pig books, an early reader book series about a friendly elephant and pig. Willems published a new series of books starring Cat the Cat in 2010, which was also aimed at young readers.
Willems' books have been translated into a variety of languages, developed animated shorts that have twice been nominated for the Carnegie Medal (Knuffle Bunny, 2007, and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, 2010), and have been turned into stage musical performances. His drawings, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been on display in galleries and museums around the country. In 2008, he made multiple appearances on NPR's All Things Considered as the show's "radio cartoonist."
Willems was named as the first education artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center in 2019. As a way of keeping children entertained during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center sponsored a series of virtual lunch doodles with Mo Willems in 2020.
