Happy Birthday and thank you to this thoughtful kindergarten friend of the library! If you're looking for a monster story that is more likely to make you chuckle than scream, Leonardo, the Terrible Monster is the book for you. We just can't get enough of Mo Willems and this is one book we did not yet have in our collection. Add this to your "must read" list! |
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Last Monday, author and illustrator Mike Wohnoutka spent the morning teaching, entertaining, and inspiring our youngest students. He is probably best known at NDA as the illustrator of the Star of the North winning book, Moo!, but he has illustrated many more books and has recently written and illustrated a couple of equally charming books, Little Puppy and the Big Green Monster and Dad's First Day. Mr. Wohnoutka first presented to the preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders and then to the second and third graders. We learned about his childhood (both a troublemaker and a good student), education (inspired by author/illustrator David Shannon at Savannah College of Art and Design), and his writing process (including lots of editing, of course!). Mr. Wohnoutka also taught the students a bit about illustrating as he pulled their creative ideas into some amusing drawings for us to keep. If you'd like to learn more about Mike Wohnoutka and his wonderful picture books, check out his website at http://www.mikewohnoutka.com/.
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