Like all Manual Cinema productions, you’re invited to watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or to watch the artists below as they create the story in real time.

Manual Cinema wanted to re-create the experience of holding one of Mo’s book pages, which are big, bold, colorful, and full of visual rhythm, with a playful use of scale. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated paper puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, and songs to bring Mo Willems' books to life. Kerry and Sam need to make a big decision: will they just be scaredy cats or can they become friends? Determined to succeed, Leonardo sets himself to training and research. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to frighten anyone. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? 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. Leonardo is truly a terrible monster-terrible at being a monster that is.

Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just… isn’t. (Mar.Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster Illustrator’s agent: Jen Rofé, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Author’s agent: Marcia Wernick, Wernick & Pratt Agency. Willems’s story celebrates making music while acknowledging those whom celebrations of high culture sometimes ignore: “Because workers checked the lights and the seats.” Debut illustrator Ren takes the sprightly energy of The Philharmonic Gets Dressed and adds depth, with distinctive expressions for each diverse face and a wonderful vision of the powerful emotions that music evokes-building on the idea that it takes multiple players to create something wonderful. If you love the books of Leonardo & Sam by Mo Willems, join our presenting partner, The.

Because “she worked very hard”-and because “she was also very lucky”-she becomes a composer, and the performance of her work joins the chain of events that change lives. Leonardo & Sam Storytime with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She floats out of the concert hall vignettes show her practicing multiple instruments diligently. They practice and schedule a concert, and because “someone’s uncle caught a cold,” a brown-skinned girl in a red sweatshirt gets a ticket, and the experience changes her. A quiet Willems book traces a child’s path to her musical vocation as the consequence of a string of events and contributions: “Because a man named Ludwig wrote beautiful music-/ a man named Franz was inspired to create his own.” For the love of Schubert, present-day musicians form an orchestra.

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