One day, five robot friends decided that there had to be more than the same orderly numbers over and over, so they got creative and worked on building letters. In their world there was no alphabet so streets, towns, and countries were all called by their numbers. The story appeared first as an iPhone app, but works almost as well as a picture book, thanks to Joyce's innate instinct for visual storytelling. The robot Numberlys get their name from being orderly. The letters magically acquire color as they come off the assembly line, offering at last jellybeans and pizza, and even a new way to sleep ("zzzzzzz"). gloopier." With can-do spirit, five industrious elfin creatures break some of the factory's numbers into pieces and invent letters, using the factory's pulleys to lift them, steel mill like claws to move them, and extruders to mold them like Play-Doh. Thousands of workers pour through its doors, and thousands of numbers emerge from it, providing order in the world and making it "numberly." Alas, there are no "books or colors or jellybeans or pizza" in this regimented world just 00267, which is "thick and gray and gloopy," and 00268, which is "thicker and grayer and, well. 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. 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. Beta School Supplies has The Numberlys written by Joyce William, the isbn of this book, CD or DVD is 9781442473430 and. 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! alphabet concept seems sophisticated for young picture book readers, but teachers and librarians might find useful opportunities for discussion or by pairing this with other alphabet books.From the team who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. The jacket flap invites readers "to "see this book come to life through the augmented reality app." Readers/viewers able to manipulate those machines on screen and help those little people crank out letters are likely to enjoy the lesson of recognizing and naming them. The varied layouts can be a bit confusing and the tone rather static, but there are comic moments and a provocative premise about the value of letters and words. Then…artful…" As the falling bits shape into letters of the alphabet, they also take on color, and soon the world has pizza, jellybeans, and names for people. ![]() 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. Kids Club Eligible 'Pig the Monster' Only 9.99 with Purchase of Any Kids Book The Numberlys by William Joyce, Christina Ellis (Illustrator) 4.0 Hardcover 17.99 Hardcover 17.99 eBook 10. ![]() 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.
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