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. K-Gr 3-In this large, mostly vertical picture book, the numberlys are tiny folks living in a black-and-white futuristic metropolis. Exactly what our heroes didn't even know they were missing.Īnd when the letters entered the world, something truly wondrous began to happen.Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books!īased on the award-winning app, this is William Joyce and Moonbot's Metropolis-inspired homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray.
Twenty-six letters-and they were beautiful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was.artful! One letter after another emerged, until there were twenty-six. So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. But our five jaunty heroes weren't willing to accept that this was all there could be. Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers. Morris Lessmore comes an alphabet tale extraordinaire! From the team who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.
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