The book is also available at Amazon and, via these affiliate links. To ensure you can watch this vid and to support its creators, buy it on Amazon Instant Video. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. The Wizard of Oz set the animation’s tone and familiar black and white to color transition. Silent film star Buster Keaton is the visual model for Lessmore. Filled with both literary (Shakespeare, Humpty-Dumpty) and film references ( The Wizard of Oz, The Red Balloon and Buster Keaton), the picture book version of Joyce’s story has a quiet contemplative charm that demonstrates the continuing allure of the printed page. Morris Lessmore, whose personal library is blown away in a terrible wind but who finds meaning caring for the books he finds in a marvelous library. The story, in a nutshell, concerns the titular book-loving Mr. The story was fueled, in part, by a focus on finding happiness and the curative power of books after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Morris Lessmore, the animation inspired by New York Times bestselling author William Joyce‘s book, won 2012’s Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
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