William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4424-7347-8
Worry not, kids. Missing a sock? Homework vanished into the ether? Just realized you have “a booger dangling out of your nose and you know it’s been there maybe all day and everybody has probably seen it?” It isn’t your fault. These and other woes...
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William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-7351-5
Joyce’s recreation of an episode from his own childhood bursts with energy and warmth. Eccentric fourth-grader Billy is obsessed with the Sunday funnies, which Joyce (the Guardians of Childhood series) spoofs lovingly, and he’s thrilled about a...
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William Joyce, Author Laura Geringer Book $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-443129-3
A boy who dreams he is small wakes up to find that it's true, yet still tries to complete the list of chores his parents have left for him in a note. ""Illustrations in full, wild colors suit the frantic doings in Joyce's debut, a fast and funny...
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William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3041-9
Joyce's (A Day with Wilbur Robinson) concoction, the inaugural offering in the Guardians of Childhood series (with films and 12 books to follow), is a rich, cinematic brew of steampunk fancies. His sumptuous spreads are crowded with rotund...
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William Joyce, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-023047-0
From the creator of George Shrinks and illustrator of other books comes a campy extravaganza about the savvy Lazardo family, which, while on vacation in Africa, acquires a dinosaur. Scotty and his sisters, Zelda and Velma, plead to keep him, and...
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William Joyce, Author Laura Geringer Book $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-008810-1
Familiar characters star in all new adventures this season and a pair of companion volumes encourage wordplay. In William Joyce's Big Time Olie, the robot boy hero makes use of the ""shrink-and-grow-a-lator"" when his parents exclude him from ...
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William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4424-5702-7
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). Joyce’s magnificently illustrated book-about-books inspired—yet arrives after—his 2011...
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William Joyce and Kenny Callicutt. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4424-7349-2
Joyce (The Numberlys) dispenses with the scarier parts of Jack and the Beanstalk (no “Fee fi fo fum” here), stringing old and new elements together with chatty narration and dialogue. In this version, there’s a drought in the kingdom where Jack...
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William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4424-7355-3
Joyce (the Guardians of Childhood series) delivers a delicious remix of classic movie and storybook themes: imprisoned toys, talking junkyard friends, and a doll lost a generation ago. Six-and-a-half-year-old Billy returns from a family wedding to...
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William Joyce and Laura Geringer, illus. by Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $14.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3048-8
Launching the Guardians series, a chapter book counterpart to Joyce's Guardians of Childhood picture book series, this beguiling clash of good vs. evil brings together several legendary figures, updated by Joyce. Key players include Ombric, a wizard
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-027163-3
Joyce diverges from the hyperbolic, pleasurably bizarre imagery he created for The Leaf Men and Dinosaur Bob in this digitally enhanced but uneventful picture book. Rolie Polie Olie is a robotic child living in a ""land of curves and curls,"" where...
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-029613-1
In Sleepy Time Olie by William Joyce, the robot boy waits for Pappy to tuck him into bed. But when Pappy hits his head the man ""comes in/ all unwound"" and bound for bed himself. Quickly, Olie conjures up a cure that has the once-unhappy Pappy...
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-440710-6
Real-life animal-lover Gertie Lintz and Buddy, the gorilla she adopted in the 1930s, have one cosmopolitan adventure after another; the story was also the subject of a feature film from Jim Henson Pictures. All ages. (Feb.)
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator HarperCollins $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027237-1
Joyce's (Dinosaur Bob; Santa Calls) characteristically offbeat and occasionally eerie illustrations carry the day in his latest picture book fantasy. The plot travels well-worn ground--a quest, magical intervention, triumph--as a troop of tiny...
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-020385-6
With a dash of whimsy and a dollop of eccentricity, this sprightly tale of a ``young and musical frog who loved to draw'' contains an endearing hero, amusing pandemonium and a pleasingly happy ending. The plot is deliciously impossible: asked to...
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William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3042-6
In the second picture-book installment in Joyce’s Guardians of Childhood series, Sanderson Mansnoozie (aka, the Sandman) is enlisted by the Man in the Moon and does battle with the Nightmare King, Pitch. With his cherubic face, cottony hair, and...
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-021074-8
Who says there's no improving on success? Not funnyman author-illustrator William Joyce, who has just added 16 pages of mirth to Dinosaur Bob: And His Adventures with the Family Lazardo (HarperCollins/Geringer, $16, 48p, ages 4-8 ISBN 0-06-021074-5).
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-053484-4
Fans of the television series will welcome this tangible introduction to Rolie Polie Olie's world. PW
said that the 3-D hero "practically steps out of the frames." Ages 2-5. (Feb.)
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William Joyce. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-3043-3
This third picture book in Joyce’s Guardians of Childhood series, following The Man in the Moon (2011) and The Sandman (2012), recounts the backstory of Jack Frost, the only “Guardian who is a child himself.” As Joyce tells it, Frost was originally...
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William Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $6.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-443817-9
Of this fantasy tale filled with quests and triumphs, PW
said, "For readers, the paintings will almost magically invoke a universe of creatures whose dramas unfold, almost out of sight, on the edge of daily life." Ages 3-8. (June)
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William Joyce and Christina Ellis. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4424-7343-0
In a lush series of b&w spreads meant to be viewed vertically, Joyce (the Guardians series) and newcomer Ellis imagine a factory lit like a Busby Berkeley set or Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, full of massive halls and gigantic machinery. Thousands of...
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William Joyce, Author, Joyce, Author, William Joyce, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-023070-8
Illustrations in full, wild colors suit the frantic doings in Joyce's debut, a fast and funny tale. When George wakes up one morning, he realizes that his dream has come true. George has dwindled. He's smaller than his toy soldiers, half the size of
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William Joyce, Author, W. Joyce, Author HarperCollins $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-022967-2
Dinosaur Bob fans should rejoice: in his latest work, Joyce pulls out all the stops and introduces the weirdest family since his Lazardo clan. A young narrator, going to see his best friend Wilbur, remarks, ``His house is the greatest place to visit.
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William Joyce. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-6133-2
“People. Bugs. Birds. Forks. Spaghetti and meatballs. You name it. Sad was all over the place,” writes Joyce (A Bean, a Stalk and a Boy Named Jack) at the start of this far-out and furry picture book. What’s more, there’s a single cause: Snarly...
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