![]() As they struggle with the machinery lines, ad shapes tumble out. ![]() This is a world where "there weren't any books or colors or jellybeans or pizza." But the friends want MORE, and in wordless spreads, they get to work, marching down long stairs among giant cogs and gears. And everything added up…So life was sort of…numberly." Long, tidy rows of the little inhabitants, whose head antennae gives them an extraterrestrial appearance, include five friends who are unhappy with the sameness. They had nice shapes and kept things in order. The spare text and many wordless pages tell of a time when there were only numbers and no alphabet: "Everyone liked numbers. Its buildings appear especially tall as the pages here often rotate the layout-readers must move the book a quarter turn so that the left-hand side tops a view spilling down the double page. Additional Books are available for purchase at our Author Event.K-Gr 3-In this large, mostly vertical picture book, the numberlys are tiny folks living in a black-and-white futuristic metropolis. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only sign Books purchased from Rainy Day Books. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Seating is General Admission.ĭISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Rainy Day Books will have William Joyce’s Books for Sale at this Event. Registration is Required at Call the Library at 81. A Booksigning will follow the Multimedia Presentation.ĪDMISSION PACKAGE: This is a Complimentary OPEN House Event. ![]() LOCATION: A Rainy Day Books Event at Mid-Continent Public Library, Woodneath Library Center, 8900 NE Flintlock Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64157ĮVENT FORMAT: William Joyce will give a Multimedia Presentation of the creation of his Newly Colorized and Reissued Picture Books: Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, A Day With Wilbur Robinson, and Bentley & Egg. Can he rescue the egg before it's too late? An homage to fatherhood, and the appreciation of swell art. But when the decorated egg is mistaken for an Easter egg and is egg-napped, Bently discovers that he has in fact, grown terrifically fond of that ole egg. While egg-sitting for his friend Kack Kack the duck, Bently Hopperton the frog is so bored that he cannot resist painting the egg's shell. Well, perhaps you'd care to read what happens next.ĪBOUT BENTLEY & EGG: A singing frog reluctantly babysits a duck egg in this sweetly hilarious picture book. And somebody left the Time Machine on, so. Bob is an instant neighborhood hit.until his love of chasing cars with his dog pals stirs up trouble with the police for "disturbing the peace." But it's the Pimlico Pirates' opening game and Bob's love of baseball might just be his get-out-of-jail-free card.ĪBOUT A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON: Come meet the Robinsons: Young Wilbur has a robot. The kind who enjoys playing the trumpet and tossing around a baseball. The Lazardo family has brought back a peculiar souvenir from their trip to Africa.a dinosaur Ah, but Bob is the friendly sort of dinosaur. He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana.ĪBOUT DINOSAUR BOB: A family brings a most unusual souvenir home after vacation in this classic picture book from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, which is also his Academy Award–Winning Short Film, to name a few). Check out the amazing work of William Joyce on Instagram!ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR: William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children’s books are his true bailiwick ( The Numberlys, The Man in the Moon, Dinosaur Bob, George Shrinks, and the #1 New York Times bestselling The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. EVENT OVERVIEW: William Joyce will give a Multimedia Presentation of the creation of his Newly Colorized and Reissued Picture Books: Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, A Day With Wilbur Robinson, and Bentley & Egg.
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