When I was first putting together my questions for you, I realized that a lot of them had to do with things like how we can help kids with the ambient stress of parents’ worrying about the pandemic or politics.
‘‘The idea that one of my books would be one of the first that a child reads on their own - that’s incredibly powerful,’’ says Willems, who just published the latest in his Unlimited Squirrels series, ‘‘I Want to Sleep Under the Stars!’’ ‘‘Reading by yourself is the first time you don’t need your parents to do something vital. Seuss and Charles Schulz, with all the responsibility that implies. In their whimsy, slapstick and emotional matter-of-factness, these books have established their creator as sort of a cross between Dr. His two best-selling series of books - one about the odd couple Elephant and Piggie, the other about the mercurial Pigeon - resonate with the hard, confusing time of early childhood. (He pitched in again by hosting another doodle session on election night.) That Willems, who is 52, was ready to help during a hard, confusing time was no surprise.
During the first wave of the pandemic in the winter, Mo Willems’s ‘‘Lunch Doodles’’ series, in which the beloved children’s-book author and illustrator led viewers in endearingly no-frills online drawing sessions, was a lifeline to families desperate to exercise their imaginations during lockdown.
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