by Jas Faulkner To experience a William Joyce book is the enter a place where things tend to fall together in a fashion that is both charmingly out of step with modern sensibilities and yet imbued with enough emotional currency that his words and images resonate with the most hard-bitten contemporary reader. His answer to our frantic digital age is found in the elegant mechanics of a clockwork world that requires the intervention of a human hand in order to keep working in its own orderly/disorderly fashion. It has been proven time and time again that there is a type of writer who is informed as much by his or her physical location as they are by the emotional and intellectual landscape in which they
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I didn’t realize when I watched the Oscars the other night, that the winner of the award for Short Animation was from the hand of the fantastic children’s writer and illustrator William Joyce. He is the marvelous inventor of A Day With Wilbur Robinson about a boy’s very eccentric family, and the search for his grandfather’s false teeth. It’s one of my favorite contemporary children’s books. Someone posted a link, and much to my wonder and joy–the winning short, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore is available for viewing for a very limited time–how long, I don’t know, but if you want to experience the though animation, what we as book lovers feel daily, go to this link. It truly is magical. http://theguardiansbooks.com/FlyingBooks/