![]() ![]() They flutter around him protectively, watch as he starts writing again, and care for him as he ages: "They read themselves to him each night." Underneath this book-about-books, there's a deeper story of love, loss, and healing, one that will be appreciated as much (if not more) by adults as by children." - Publishers Weekly, "Joyce's Academy Award-winning animated short-film-turned-app that celebrates those who care about (and receive nourishment from) books is, ironically, now a picture book. ![]() being pulled along by a festive squadron of flying books," Morris finds an abandoned library whose books are alive and whose covers beat like the wings of birds. This one follows a dreamy bibliophile named Morris Lessmore, who loses his cherished book collection to a cataclysmic storm that's half Katrina (Joyce is from Louisiana) and half Wizard of Oz. ![]() The unusual sequence of film-to-book (there's an app, too) suggests that while books are indeed glorious things, what really matters is story. "Joyce's magnificently illustrated book-about-books inspired-yet arrives after-his 2011 animated short film of the same name, which won an Oscar. ![]()
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