Praise for HOORAY FOR AMANDA AND HER ALLIGATOR: “Six and a half short stories make up this expertly paced page-turner about a girl and her toy alligator, laced with the kid-centric humor on which Willems has built his career. Praise for HOORAY FOR AMANDA AND HER ALLIGATOR: “Amusing and heartwarming, it will leave Willems’s fans totally satisfied.” - School Library Journal (starred review) His books are simple, not simplistic they are clever, witty, various, and surprising.” - Boston Globe Like Brown, Willems has his finger on the pulse of what interests children most. “Mo Willems is to our era what Margaret Wise Brown was a half century ago…. “A hilariously fractured fairy tale….Top-notch for group storytime” - Kirkus Reviews A hugely entertaining and riotous re-telling of a classic fairytale from one of the most original and funny voices in childrens books today. “On every page, the text winks broadly at readers, first pointing to and then playing with conventions of folklore, narrative voice, literary foreshadowing, and plain old common sense.” - Horn Book (starred review) Readers of all ages will find much to chuckle about in this wacky retelling.” - School Library Journal (starred review) “This is pure Mo Willems, from the many visual gags in the cleanly drawn illustrations and the tight, tongue-in-cheek story line to the endpapers. Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs.
Willems, the author/illustrator of Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and the Elephant and Piggie. Three Bears, so funny and so originalit could only come from the brilliant mind of Mo. “With a sense of irony (and humor) as sharp as this dinosaur trio’s talons, Willems’s retelling is a sure bet for audiences who have moved beyond more gently witty fare.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs is a new take on the fairy-tale classic Goldilocks and the. “Willems has delivered his very best work so far-this is a tasty treat for kids already fluent with the original, and for any fan of funny, and everybody will want to read it again and again and again.” - Booklist (starred review)
Mo lives with his family in Massachusetts. Before he turned to making picture books, Mo was a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he won six Emmys. His books are perennial New York Times bestsellers, including Knuffle Bunny Free, Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!, and the Cat the Cat series. A three-time Caldecott Honor winner (for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny, and Knuffle Bunny Too), he also won two Geisel Medals and two Geisel Honors for his Elephant and Piggie books. Regan McMahon, reviewing from Common Sense Media, stated that the book is an "exceptional delight" with an art style that included "sly elements to entertain adults".Mo Willems knows a Good Idea when he sees one. Kirkus Book Reviews called it "Top-notch for group storytime, for a project on revising classics or just for enjoyment funniest for kids who know the original." A review from Publishers Weekly praised the book's humour and commented that it is "a sure bet for audiences who have moved beyond more gently witty fare". Published in 2012 by Balzer and Bray, it is a parody of the traditional tale of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears" but the bears are replaced with Dinosaurs. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs is the title of a children's picture book by Mo Willems. 2012 children's picture book by Mo Willems Goldilocks and The Three Dinosaurs Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems This spoof brings Goldilocks (who looks suspiciously like Trixie of Knuffle Bunny.
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