Don't Pigeonhole Me!-Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook

By Mo Willems

Book Overview

Young readers first met the Pigeon, a beleaguered bird desperate for a shot behind the wheel of a bus, in 2003. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! went on to sell millions of copies, receive a Caldecott Honor, and spawn additional picture books, apps, games, and even silly bands.

But did you know the Pigeon was born many years earlier in the pages of a sketchbook?

In Don't Pigeonhole Me! Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook, readers are given a rare glimpse into the mind of the man the New York Times described as "The biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the '00s." Since he was a teenager, Mo has been creating characters and scribbling ideas in the pages of sketchbooks. In the early 1990s, he started self-publishing collections of his drawings, and The Mo Willems Sketchbook was created. What began as a calling card for his work has morphed over the years from a form of therapy, to an opportunity to explore and experiment, to a gift for friends and loved ones. But these sketchbooks have always been (and continue to be) the well from which Mo draws ideas and inspiration.

Featuring a foreword by Eric Carle and an introduction by Mo, this volume includes all twenty sketchbooks from the last two decades. Don't Pigeonhole Me! reveals the author/illustrator at his most truthful, most experimental, most grown-up.

Most Mo.

Want to know where ideas come from? Look inside.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1423144368
• ISBN13: 9781423144366
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Hyperion Avenue
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Not What I expected

I LOVE Mo Willems but I was not excited about this. It is very adult and I can't share it with my children. I wouldn't buy it again and I'm not sure what to do with it as I am not keeping it. UGH