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A Dreamer's Dream; A Story of Mo(rpheus) Willems

You may not be familiar with creative-type Mo Willems. The Emmy-winning Seasame Street writer/animator created Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City and wrote plenny episodes of Codename: Kids Next Door . Nowadays, he is rightly recognized in connection with his excellent award-wining children stories, including Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and the Elephant and Piggie series.  Willems is obviously the love child of Doctor Suess and Genndy Tartakovsky. However, he is also far more than a mere children's media auteur. A post-modern metaphysical radical whose work not only frequently comments on itself, breaks the forth wall, and implicates the viewer/reader in the action - he is also a freer of minds. His work subtly and elegantly puts forth theories of reality that forever open people to thoughts previously unthinkable (again, this is the guy who did Sheep in the Big City ). It's not hard to imagine that, somewhere out there, some anal-retentive white dud