Plane Crazy

Mo Willems began his career as a writer and animator for the show Sesame Street on PBS. During this time, he earned 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. Willems worked on Sesame Street for nine seasons and created two animated series The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. Codename: Kids Next Door was another show where Willems served as head writer at Cartoon Network, it was during this time that Willems began writing and illustrating books for children (Willems, Mo. FAQ). “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” was Willems debut book. It became a New York Times Bestseller and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2004 the Carnegie Medal for animated versions of books and the NAPPA Award Winner for animated version of book in 2010 (“Awards and Honors.”). Willems Pigeon Collection and Elephant and Piggie books share some very similar attributes. First, in both book collections the illustrations use a minimalist style, using simple lines and shapes to create his main characters. In an interview with CNN Willems says “The other formal thing that I do is that I make sure that the characters in my books are characters that a 4- or a 5-year-old can draw: infringe on my copyright with great ease. So a lot of my design work is reductive. I make drawings, then I try to take as many lines out, so that it's at its easiest to copy (Wrenn, Jill Martin). White or one colored backgrounds frequent most pages of these books. Instead of using lines of text Willems uses…

“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.” -Walt Disney, this is something that Walt Disney said it shows how no matter your age you can still have an imagination. Walter Elias Disney born on December 5th 1901 in Chicago,Illinois would grow up to be someone that changed pop culture forever. Walt had many ups and downs within his career getting criticized by everyone. From a young age Walt knew what hard work was, he had lived through the great depression. Walt…

One mistake that I had made and learned from is when my dad and I went to California. When I went to California it was my first time on a plane, and missing school for something other than being sick. It was also my first time trying real seafood that was freshly caught. On the way back the view was amazing, we seen death valley, some type of cavern, and a lot of huge mountains. Even though it seems like fun I should have been at school taking the five tests that I missed in those two days. My…

starts with Denzel 's Character, Whip, flying a commercial Plane to Florida to Georgia, with his co-pilot, Ken. Whip has a bad drug & alcohol problem. Before the flight in his hotel room, he snorts a line of coke, and even during the flight, pours three small bottles of vodka into a bottle of orange juice. For the most part, Whip doesn’t seem impaired, but takes a 26 minute nap while the plane sits in autopilot. A flight attendant walks into the cockpit and talk with Ken and jokes about Whip…

“Do you need a help with your backpack” the stewardess asked me in British accent. “Pardon”, I said “I didn’t hear you well”. She repeated, but I still didn’t understand what she was trying to say. I started to panic. “If I cannot understand British English, which I learned in the university for 1 year, how I will understand American English”. “How I am going to study in University in America if I don’t understand simple things the stewardess was trying to say, maybe I should get out of the…

which they finally found by a exquisite blue lake. It felt so good to empty our packs and stretch. After waking at midnight to start our summit in order to beat the possible rainstorms, we were off to climb Mt. Massive, the second tallest mountain in Colorado. Climbing rocks with heavy backpacks, crossing rivers,bushwhacking about 3 and a half miles, and dealing with heavy winds that almost blew us over, we finally found the trail! Once in awhile the wind was so bad we had to wait until it…

Apocalypse Grant, Jonah, and I got of the bus in San Francisco and had to walk to the airport. We couldn’t find it so we ask someone. They said “ you'll see a big chemical place beside it, you can’t miss it from their. We had to hurry because our flight left pretty soon. WE probably got the best seats on the plane and we THOUGHT it was going to be a very enjoyable ride. When we took off I noticed out the window that we weren’t getting of the ground, at all. We were getting towards the end of…

The story I'm about to tell is based on my life's vicarious but first I'm going to tell something about me. I'm a RC (Radio Control) airplane and any other RC stuff like RC car RC boat. I start to fly RC plane when I was around 8 years old or maybe little bit earlier but that's no the point, so I start to fly RC around 8 years old and my first RC toy was a 3 channel Helicopter. I enjoyed it!, but as you know kids break stuff. I started to learn to build a hand launch glider. My dad is a RC…

REALLY EXCITED .I thought it was cool because it’s the longest time i’ve been visiting my dad. So I said my goodbye to my mom she hugs me and I get on the plane. Now that i’m on the plane the flight attendant started to talk on the microphone saying…

to Florida It was a hot summer morning, my mom was at work, while my dad was at the house purchasing plane tickets. I had no idea that we would be going to Florida this summer. As much as I wanted to be excited I wasn’t. It was a tough decision I had to make with myself because if I wanted to be on the volleyball team I had to stay and commit to volleyball camp. The only thing that really upset me was that our trip to Florida was on the same day as volleyball camp. Having to choose between…