The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
By William Joyce
This beautifully illustrated picture book opens up the imagination to the endless possibilities that books and stories hold. The first pages begin with a man working on his own story, when his world is turned upside down, and he begins meeting all these new types of books. He ultimately lands in a library, where he creates deep relationships with all genres. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore can be used to inspire students with the magic that books and stories contain and the importance of the stories that our own lives tell and the legacies we leave for others.
Here is a snippet from this book, so you can see if you might like to read the entire story!
“Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books.
His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another. He would open it every morning and write of his joys and sorrows, of all that he knew and everything he hoped for.
But every story has its upsets. One day the sky darkened. The winds blew and blew…
…till everything Morris knew was scattered – even the words of his book.
He didn’t know what to do or which way to go. So he began to wander. And wander.”