{"id":402,"date":"2008-05-05T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=402"},"modified":"2008-05-05T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:41:36","slug":"the-intro-writer-for-the-next-complete-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/the-intro-writer-for-the-next-complete-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The intro writer for the next Complete Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mo Willems will provide the introduction for The Complete Peanuts <\/strong>volume 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, I suspect that while a few of you will smile at that, others are going “who”? Mo is a former Sesame Street writer who has become a leading children’s book creator. He is the creator of the endearing Knuffle<\/strong><\/a> Bunny <\/strong><\/a>books, the sweet Elephant<\/a> and<\/a> Piggie<\/a><\/strong> books, the enjoyable Leonardo the Terrible Monster<\/strong><\/a>, and the execrable Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct<\/strong>.<\/a> (Hey, they can’t all be gems.)<\/p>\n

But best of all, Mo Willems is the creator of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus<\/strong><\/a>, which would get my vote as the best comics story of this century. This kids book about a pigeon trying to wheedle his way into a chance to drive a bus is both a great use of comics tools and a smart reflection of all the tricks we use to get what we want. If you’ve got a three year old, buy it for them. If not… slip into the library and read their copy. There are a number of follow-up<\/a> Pigeon<\/a> books<\/a>, also worthwhile and enjoyable, but that first one remains the pinnacle.<\/p>\n

I look forward to seeing what Mr. Willems has to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mo Willems will provide the introduction for The Complete Peanuts volume 10. Now, I suspect that while a few of you will smile at that, others are going “who”? Mo is a former Sesame Street writer who has become a leading children’s book creator. He is the creator of the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}