![]() ![]() This title lacks the hilarity of Willems's previous accounts of persuasion, but it does assert the power of a spoonful of sugar. The simply drawn children recall the various Peanuts characters, and the insistent mice clown around in ways that reward rereading. ![]() Finally the girl appeals to her father with a gracefully hand-lettered "please" that does the trick, and the tutorial concludes with the rodents begging (politely) for a bite of her hard-earned cookie. ![]() Have an ulterior motive-wave banners and fly tiny zeppelins emblazoned with word-by-word commands: "Go ask a big person/ and/ Please say 'please'!" Then, in a digression from the main story, they and some other children demonstrate the versatile applications of "please," "excuse me," "sorry" and "thank you" ("you have to mean it!"). As she resists their advice, the mute mice-who might The gaggle of Ignatz-lookalike mice first introduced in Time to Pee!ĭispense the lesson, instructing a girl who wants a cookie by holding up four red placards shaped like stop signs ("Don't just grab it!") to arrest her first impulse. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. In his previous life, Mo was a six-time Emmy Awardwinning writer and animator for Sesame Street and the creator of Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. In this etiquette lesson (from which Pigeon, star of a few other of Willems's picture books, could benefit), the author explains the tactical usefulness of the magic word. He also wrote Today I will Fly,My Friend Is Sad, There Is a Bird on Your Head, and I Am Invited to a Party, the first books in this series. ![]() Willems's assertive characters know what they want, but they seldom ask for it politely. ![]()
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