Your feathered champion will be right there, encouraging you all the way, with a loud “WOO HOO!” that’ll keep you going and remove any doubt you’re super terrific. What’s better than a cheerleading chicken?Īre you ever blue, unsure, tired, or overworked? Do you ever feel lost or overwhelmed? This uplifting book, expressed in delightful, jaunty verse, explains how to lift your spirits pronto: What you need is a booster chicken telling you’re doing great even when you’re not so confident, as when you’re learning or practicing a new skill, for instance.

Leonardo and Sam appear mostly in the corners of vast blank spreads, the showbiz typeface (all caps) emphasizing the theatricality of it all. The highly predictable ending is made fresh by the superb control of pacing, just-zany-enough sense of humor and body language readers have come to expect from the creator of Pigeon and Knufflebunny. and scare the tuna salad out of him!” Exhaustive research yields Sam, who, in a double-page-spread torrent of words, explains why he’s so miserable he cries when Leonardo tries to scare him: “MY MEAN BIG BROTHER STOLE MY ACTION FIGURE !” The instant connection between the two is the very definition of sympathy, and Leonardo and Sam proceed to become fast friends. Realizing that he doesn’t possess the ideal monster attributes (1,642 teeth, enormous size or utter weirdness), Leonardo resolves to find “the most scaredy-cat kid in the whole world. Leonardo & Sam received its world premier streaming via the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in March, 2021.With a palette straight from the endpapers of Where the Wild Things Are, and postures not a little reminiscent of Max, Willems crafts a sweetly original morality play about a very unscary monster. Kerry and Sam will need to make a big decision: will they be friends or will they be controlled by their fears?Īdapted from the beloved children’s books by Mo Willems, and realized through mind-bending puppetry, DIY cinema, music, and an original score by critically-acclaimed multimedia artists Manual Cinema, Leonardo & Sam tells the story of a monster who longs to be scary and the big decisions about identity and empathy that we all must make. Will Leonardo finally get his chance to scare the tuna salad out of an unsuspecting human? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship? The plot thickens when this pair meets Kerry and Frankenthaler, an even scaredier-cat and her monster friend.

Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world.

He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. *THE TERRIBLE MONSTER AND THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT KID IN THE WHOLE WORLD, RESPECTIVELY

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