Mo Willems

So there they love it.

We just flip through usually Mo Willems books and they just point out sight words with witches fingers.

The first graders are starting to track.

And then I have flashlights and things like that as they get older that they just anything to make them want to read a little bit more.

the musical.

So the, the Mo Willems musical, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

Wow.

So it's a really cool musical because it is that story, but there's pieces of his other stories in it.

Mm-hmm.

It's Mo Willems.

Uh, and it's a great fractions book.

Um-

Oh, I love that.

And these are characters created by your husband Mo Willems.

Correct, correct.

My husband Mo wrote 25 of these.

Okay, so the question is, how do you find a credit union in your neighborhood? Well, they're all over the place.

Now that we talked about it, you're gonna start seeing them, but you can also scroll, search or ask your favorite AI, "Credit unions near me."

Well, so you worked on the cookbook with your husband, and then when I was reading the book, it also said, it says, "Recipes by Mo Willems with Peggy Paul Casella."

Yeah.

Another book I have that I really love is The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog.

This is a book by Mo Willems.

And there's lots of different pigeon books out there.

Mo Willems also makes elephant and piggy books.

And so using these silly, very simple and very loud and animated books by Mo Willems are fun because we're exposing children to big feelings.

We're exposing children to kind of negotiating or playing with the food.

So in this book, Pigeon finds a hot dog and Duckling wants to know what the hot dog tastes like.

And so, it just tastes like a hot dog, okay? The more animated and fun we are, the more we bring the books to life, and we can have that interaction be very positively associating and interesting for a child.

Huge names.

There are mentions of Maggie Gyllenhaal, a new book from Mo Willems, a high-end collector's edition for Anthony Bourdain.

We even have Fabio talking about his iconic romance novel covers and updates from Kyle MacLachlan from Sex and the City.

This is the absolute peak of the traditional, highly funded, celebrity-driven cultural machine.

He does.

'Cause I noticed the other, the two good White people, only 'cause I have kids, Mo Willems is a kids author, Elephant and Piggie.

Yeah.

If anyone knows that.

In the early 2000s, CN held a big pick weekend and new shows were created from it.

The shows that won were Mo Willems.

Willems' Sheep in the Big City, a sheep is chasing two government officials wanting to kill him.

[inhales] Greg Miller's Whatever Happened to Robot Jones, a series about a ro-- teenage robot boy in school with, like, an AI voice.

Plus, New York Times bestseller Malcolm Gladwell stopping by to share his brand new book.

And children's author Mo Willems and his wife Cher serving up a taste of their new cookbook filled with recipes the whole family can make.

Today, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026.

Live from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza, this is the third hour of today.

The book, again, it's called The American Way of Killing.

All

right, coming up this morning, children's author Mo Willems and his wife Cher are cooking up something special, a meal that fans of his books are going to love.

There's the pigeon.