
The plot generated much discussion about their impact on their future early childhood and elementary students. My students were engrossed because of the splendid animation and musical score.

They laughed, cried, sighed relief, gasped, and cheered for Mr. I showed this movie to my students, who are elementary pre-service teachers. What a treat! It has been quite some time for me to be excited about a story, and I talked about this one to anyone who would listen. Soon after the Oscar telecast, I bought the movie. The movie adaptation won for Short Film (Animated) (See ). Morris Lessmore during the 84 th Academy Awards. Second, I was introduced to The Flying Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. This book allowed me to relive the joys of reading with every page, and I am thrilled to be reviewing it for the Nerdy Book Club. I play with delicious words when I write with my students. I celebrate beautiful phrases, sentences, and illustrations with my family and friends. I walk with reverence upon setting foot into my favorite neighborhood bookstore or library. I giggle with glee when new books arrive in my mailbox. I have a few confessions to make right away.

Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012 Illustrators: William Joyce and Joe Bluhm Ages 4 8.Title: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. 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. 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.

As e-books put pressure on the printed word, picture books that romanticize books proliferate (The Lonely Book, It's a Book, and Dog Loves Books come to mind).
