Pete List is an

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-based musician and animator.

Career

List has done animation work for

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and

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. He directed the

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music video for "

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". Some of his work has focused on children's videos for Scholastic &

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. In 2020 he created a short that was a response to

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’s handling of

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. List was the animator for the video adaptations of ''

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'' which won the 2010

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and '' That is NOT a Good Idea!'' which won in 2016. List is a multi-instrumentalist and a member of Beatbox Guitar with

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, and Djinn with

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. His music with Djinn is featured on the

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episode of

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's No Reservations.

Selected works

*'' Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!'' (adaptation) *

The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? ''The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?'' is a 2012 picture book by Mo Willems. It is about a duckling that asks for, and receives, a cookie, a pigeon that complains about it, but is then flummoxed when the duckling passes the cookie to him. In 2014, Wes ...

, won the International Animated Film Association-East award for Excellence in Animation *'' The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!'' *'' Leonardo, the Terrible Monster'' *'' That is NOT a Good Idea!'' *''

'' *'' Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs'' *

*''

Partial discography

* Songs for Kassar

References

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