Also, I love, love, love color, so I really like when the book’s illustrations change from sepia to full color.Ī quirky book, The Numberlys is a perfect read-aloud for elementary school kids. I think it’s cool that Joyce and Ellis have readers play around with what it means to ‘read’ a text in a book centered around the power of letters and words. I like the nontraditional, interactive page lay-out (you have to almost flip the book to read the words) and how some of the pages are wordless. Because of a commitment to change, these friends give meaning to their world by introducing words. So five friends decide to shake things up a bit and end up producing letters, the alphabet, and, eventually, cool words like jellybeans and pizza. And everything added up …” But this numberly world does not allow enough expression. They had nice shapes and kept things orderly. Readers are introduced to a wordless world, which works for a while: “Everyone liked numbers. He has achieved worldwide recognition as an author. Morris Lessmore (view the animated short film version here), so I was excited to see what he was up to this time. William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1957) is an American writer, illustrator, and filmmaker. Morris Lessmore, which is also his Academy Awardwinning short film, to name a few). I absolutely loved William Joyce’s book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children’s books are his true bailiwick (The Guardians series, Dinosaur Bob series, George Shrinks, and the 1 New York Times bestselling The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. One day, they decide they want something different from their orderly, black-and-white world. Friends 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 live in a world where there is no alphabet - only numbers. While there are a number of picture books that give the perils of uniformity a stronger treatment-Jeffers’ The Hueys in the New Sweater (BCCB 7/12), for example-Joyce’s en vogue aesthetic and incorporation of numbers and letters will likely mean this sees some serious circulation.William Joyce and Christina Ellis’s (2014) The Numberlys ( Moonbot Books) is a strangely enticing read. William Joyce All cast & crew See more cast details at IMDbPro Storyline The Numberlys is an epic homage to Fritz Lang's Metropolis, but for kids. These contrast effectively with the mad-scientist wordsmiths, who are a veritable crew of rounded robotic-looking folks with white faces and big, expressive eyes. The most compelling aspect here is the illustrations, which pay clear homage to Lang’s Metropolis in their fuzzy black-and-white, larger-than-life, and gear-driven cityscapes. However, that frequent flipping does make the physical book cumbersome to read. Morris Lessmore, this concept began with a mobile app, and the interactivity of that medium has carried over into the book’s design, with spreads switching often between vertical and horizontal and several wordless images showing off the creativity of the newly designed glyphs in alphabetic order. Numberlys is the second story app from Louisiana-based Moonbot Studios a digital animation and development company founded in 2010 by William Joyce. As with Joyce’s The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. jellybeans or pizza”), but the link between letters and the vibrant and diverse world isn’t made very clear, and overwrought handling of the concept draws the set-up out too long. There’s a certain whimsy to Joyce’s overstatement of the problems of uniformity (“There weren’t any. Click here for a larger image For the animated short, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 were each created as black-and-white, computer-generated models that Moonbot animators could use in expressive movement. Five friends in this drab but steampunky world, however, finally get sick of dinners of 00267 (“which was thick and gray and gloopy”) and, after much experimentation with breaking down and reassembling numerals, are able to invent the alphabet, which also bursts forth into color. Click here for a larger image In an early sketch for The Numberlys picture book, William Joyce explored how the Numberlys would work together to create the alphabet. A long time ago, there were no letters or colors, only numbers keeping things very orderly.
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