You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons - The World on One Cartoon a Day

I picked up You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day by Mo Willems at a library sale last week. You know Mo Willems, right? The amazing children's picture book author, he of Pigeon fame and Knuffle Bunny fame, universally adored by children of all sizes and ages (even those of us who are 58). If you know who he is, then you know why I couldn't possibly pass up this book for a buck. I read the blurb on the back, telling You Can Never Find a Rickshaw is a compilation of cartoons Willems drew during a round-the-world trip he took in 1990. He made one cartoon a day, each a drawing to help him recall the quirkiest thing that happened that day.

But here was the most amazing thing about this little $1 buy:

Autographed!

A fun, slice-of-life travelogue. Which is enhanced by knowing most of his of children's books. I hadn't realized that Willems wrote for Sesame Street, but the back flap says he's a six-time Emmy Award winner for it.

I haven't traveled nearly as extensively as Willems, but I have been to Thailand. Touching down in Bangkok, then traveling by sleeper bus down part of the peninsula. It was fun to see some of the overlap of our experiences about 20 years apart. I had also been there during the king's birthday, Willems talks about candles, we sent off lanterns.