Picky reader
  • Home
  • Cool Links for Learning
  • Library Challenges blog
  • Starbooks 2019
    • Starbooks 3-4
    • Starbooks 5-6
  • Library Page
    • Geography Map Resources
    • Image Toolkit
  • All About Ms. Knight
  • Ms. Knight on Goodreads
  • Contact info
  • Archived Pages
  • Stop Motion Animation
    • 2019 Summer school >
      • Hex Bugs
    • 2018SummerSchool
  • 2020 Stop motion class
  • Kids Lit Election 2020

Author Study - William Joyce

Picture
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Meet-the-Author Book Reading

https://www.teachingbooks.net/book_reading.cgi?id=8465

​
Directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, the 15-minute film draws from Hurricane Katrina, “The Wizard of Oz,” Buster Keaton and, of course, a love for books. The story starts in New Orleans with the Keaton-like Mr. Morris Lessmore writing a book on the balcony of a hotel. A menacing storm swirls into town, blowing away houses and street signs, taking Mr. Lessmore and his unfinished book with it. Lessmore is transported to a land filled with fluttering novels; a land where he can dedicate his life to filling his book with the abundance of words he is now surrounded with.

​

Photos from our author visit day
​

Picture