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Art Quote by Mo Willems

“An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.” quote by Mo Willems — Download Open image

“An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.”

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Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency…

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I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and…

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The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

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The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

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I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie are retired, so this is what they do in their spare time. What will they end up wanting to read? Time will tell. We've got to let that evolution happen as the series goes on. Any return of…

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

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