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December 14, 2008 by Travis Jonker

Sunday Link Du Jour: Mo Willems Radio Cartoons

December 14, 2008 by Travis Jonker   3 comments

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Mo Willems, author of countless outstanding books for children has also been trying his hand at radio cartooning. This is akin to me trying to blog by smell. Not an easy task. Here’s how it works: Mo draws a picture, posts it on the NPR website, and listeners submit captions. They read the best submissions on air before Mo provides his punchline. Entertaining stuff. Click the play buttons below to have a listen to some of the results.

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Mo Willems Puts Santa On the Couch

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Mo Willems: Walking In On the Jester

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Mo Willems: The Symmetric Pirate

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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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