Library Cart Drill Team Champions for 2010

Thanks to all who came out for an afternoon of weirdness at ALA. Jon Scieszka & I can't get enough of those funky carts!

TIME TO SLEEP, SHEEP THE SHEEP! publishes today!

I hope you enjoy Cat the Cat's latest adventure!

Thanks to you...

The New York Times Bestseller list includes 2 of my books for the 2nd week in a row:




And City Dog, Country Frog debuts on the PW bestseller list at #6!

Thanks, you!

Huzzah!

I'm off!

To Washington DC for the ALA Convention to talk about the upcoming Knuffle Bunny Free: an unexpected diversion, Elphant & Piggie's We Are In a Book! and accept the Carnegie Medal for the animated Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! with fellow producer Paul Gagne.


I've got a pretty full schedule and hope you'll drop by to say hello (or win a drawing from me).

And if you get a chance, drop by the Wonder Shirts booth to check out this brand new just released Elephant & Piggie t-shirt:



If you can't make it to DC this weekend, then:

Why not drop by San Francisco for the opening of the Cartoon Museum's Storytime! exhibit and see some Elephant & Piggie drawings?

Or, if you're in Chicago, get your tickets for next year's Emerald City Theatre production of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!


Or if you're a kid anywhere in Illinois, you can vote for your favorite kids book (including Leonardo the Terrible Monster) in the Monarch Awards.

Yay Fan Mail!

The Favorite Fan Mail File was full, so I thought I'd bring out some recent greats:

Fancy Elephant & Piggie:


I love this Piggie:


Sage Advice:
Knuffle Bunny having a hot dog party:



This is the most shocking and awesome idea for an Elephant & Piggie book. I wish I were brave enough to steal it:


Yay Cat the Cat!





Love the Willem DeKoning expression!


I think Pigeon is thinking, "Refreshing!"


I always tell kids that an eraser is part of the pencil! Love seeing the process:

Hee hee:

Love this Pigeon:

Dad's legs slay me:






Piggie is very funny in this one:



A cool envelope:
Love it when kids combine my characters with theirs:




And here's a preview of this fall's upcoming, Knuffle Bunny Free:


Phew!

We'd love to see your drawings here at the Mo Willems Studio. Drop a line to:

Mo Willems Fan Mail
c/0 Jordan McMakin
Hyperion Books for Children and Pigeons
114 5th Ave 14th fl. New York, NY 10011

Please be very patient, it takes a while for mail to be forwarded!

(Teachers: a cover letter including the grade you teach is appreciated)

Happy Father's Day!

We're #2! (& #3!)

Last week saw the release of both Elephant & Piggie's Can I Play Too?:

And my collaboration with Jon Muth in City Dog, Country Frog:


This week saw both of them hitting the New York Times Bestseller List, coming in at #2 & #3!


To top it off, City Dog, Country Frog debuted on the Indie-Bound bestseller list at #6 as well!

There are lots of people to thank for the success of these books, from my editors, agent, marketing departments, & my family.

But mostly, thank you for your continued support.

I hope you're enjoying the stories!

Pigeon Games! (& 'Mo)

An awesome package came in the old mail bag recently. The very first set of PIGEON GAMES!

First off there's the awesome Pigeon doll.


But, wait a second! That's not a doll! It's the packaging for THE PIGEON WANTS A MATCH!, the brand new matching game that's more fun than driving a bus!


Each game has tons of scenes from your favorite Pigeon adventures:


Plus brand new, never been used in a matching game before LOSE A TURN and EXTRA TURN tiles!


The game also comes with instructions on how to play AND how to draw the Pigeon!

Also from the fine folks at University Games come two puzzles based on THE PIGEON FINDS A HOT DOG:



and DON'T LET THE PIGEON STAY UP LATE!
I've been working with the University Games guys for about a year on these and an upcoming board game all of which should be hitting the shelves next month!

I'm very happy with them and hope you will be too.

So, flock on over to your nearest toy shop and say The Pigeon sent ya!


In more exciting news, San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum just announced their upcoming exhibit, Storytime! Graphic Novels for Kids of All Ages, featuring a full set of process drawings from Elephant and Piggie's ELEPHANTS CANNOT DANCE.


The show will feature work from Jeff Smith's fantastic Bone, old Little Lulu, Beanworld, and much more! Should be a knockout!


And in more great Pigeon news, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! has just won the 2010 3 Apples Young Reader Book Award, an award voted on by real kids! Thanks, kids!


In other news, the Los Angeles Times likes City Dog, Country Frog, saying about the book: "The result is both funny (like Willems) and poignant (like Muth)" and "a perfect expression of what lasts in friendship."


And finally: if you get a chance check out these sketches & ideas of visiting cartoonists to the Center for Cartoon Studies by students. Subjects include myself, pal Robert Sikoryak, Kim Dietch & others.

HUZZAH!