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Mo Willems

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#1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books and In addition to such picture books as , and , Mo has created the books, a series of early readers, and published , an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. The New York Times Book Review called Mo "the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." 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...

Dr. Seuss

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was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract...