From 2017: How the children’s-book author Mo Willems teaches young readers to confront problems and be resilient.
I asked Cher what had made her think that the Pigeon story could be a kids’ book. She paused, then said, of her work at the time, “There were two classrooms, the same size, the same kinds of kids in terms of age, background. Every day with their lunch, the children got a cookie that came in a cellophane wrapper. In one of the classrooms, the teacher would come around with scissors and snip the cellophane off each cookie wrapper.
In 2008, Willems and Cher and their daughter, Trixie, who is now fifteen, moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. Northampton is in the Pioneer Valley, an area that was once home to Sojourner Truth, Sonic Youth, and utopian abolitionist communities. Eric Carle, who wrote “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” lives there, as do Norton Juster and dozens of other cartoonists and children’s-book authors and illustrators.
Past the drafting table and the computer area is a hallway lined with wooden filing drawers, each one detailed with a red, blue, or yellow stripe, and labelled with the titles of Willems’s books. “This is where I have the art and page proofs from each book,” he said. The primary colors of the filing drawers surprised me; neither his books nor his clothes nor his demeanor has a primary-color feel to it. “Yeah, these colors are here to remind me to be happy,” Willems said.
The color palette of the books also changed. It became brighter, and the dark outlines of the characters gained contrast. “It happened around mid-series,” Willems said. “I would never have used the colors I used in ‘Slop!’ earlier in the series.” Eating the slop makes Gerald turn purple, then lime green, then orange, then bright yellow with purple polka dots. When he started the series, Willems said, “I just wasn’t ready.
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