Author Study with Kwame Alexander and Special Guest Mo Willems

Join us when Kwame welcomes MO WILLEMS to Author Study on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT.

This 45-minute virtual livestream session is a unique opportunity to engage with and learn from not one but TWO #1 New York Times best-selling authors!

Kwame will read from Acoustic Rooster and speak with Mo about his approach and process as an author, illustrator, animator, and playwright. He'll also do a mini-craft lesson, followed by a LIVE Q&A, taking questions from select attendees in the chat!

Our December 10 event is recommended for elementary & middle school grades, but all grade levels are welcome. This event will run 45 minutes (1:00-1:45pm ET / 10:00 - 10:45am PT) and will include an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter.

In order to give participants a unique and more personalized experience, space for this virtual livestream event is limited. Please see FAQs below for additional details.

Classrooms & Libraries General Registration:
$375 for one registration, or two registration bundle for $650
Title I Classrooms & Homeschoolers Registration:
$250 for one registration, or two registration bundle for $400
Two-Registration Bundle

The Two-Registration Bundle is automatically set up to apply the two registrations to the same event. If you would like to leverage the Two Registration Bundle, but use your second registration for a different Author Study event, please FIRST contact [email protected] and we'll follow up with instructions.

View the full schedule of 2024-25 events at AuthorStudy.com.

Registration Access

Each registration provides access through a unique URL and passcode as a single login to the virtual livestream, which can be used from one device for viewing in an individual library. The login cannot be used on multiple devices concurrently.

Group Discounts

For organizations interested in five or more registrations, please contact [email protected] for information on group discounts.

Pay by Check / ACH

For libraries needing to pay by check or ACH, please complete this form and we'll be in touch regarding next steps.
Additional Details & FAQ

This event is intended for students in elementary and middle grades and will run 45 minutes (1:00-1:45pm ET / 10:00 - 10:45am PT). Please see FAQs below for additional details. For other questions about this event, contact [email protected].

Author Study with Kwame Alexander is a Big Sea Entertainment initiative.

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, Emmy® Award-winning producer, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 40 books, including This is the Honey, Why Fathers Cry at Night, An American Story, The Door of No Return, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), Rebound, which was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, and The Undefeated, the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

Kwame is also the Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Writer of the Emmy-award winning series , based on his Newbery-Medal winning novel of the same name, which premiered on Disney+ in April 2023. The series was produced in partnership with LeBron James' SpringHill Company and Big Sea Entertainment, Kwame's production company that is dedicated to creating innovative, highly original children’s and family entertainment. Other current projects in development at Big Sea include , the groundbreaking reality television series for writers, as well as an animated series in production with GBH based on his beloved children’s book Acoustic Rooster.

Kwame was recently appointed as the Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts for Chautauqua Literary Arts, and also serves as their Inaugural​ Writer-in-Residence. A regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition, Kwame is the creator and host of the podcast featuring conversations about love and parenting and loss, with fathers and sons. He regularly shares his passion for literacy, books and the craft of writing around the world at events like the Chautauqua Lecture Series, the Edinburgh Book Festival, Aspen Ideas, and the Global Literacy Symposium in Ghana, where he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana.

His mission is to change the world, one word at a time.

Mo Willems’s bestselling picture books have received numerous awards, including three Caldecott Honors (Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale; Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). His celebrated Elephant and Piggie early reader series has been awarded two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors.

Mo was also the inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence (2019-2022), and continues to collaborate in creating fun new stuff involving classical music, opera, comedy concerts, dance, painting and digital works with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Ben Folds, Yo-Yo Ma, and others.

Host or Publisher Big Sea Entertainment