This Academy Award winning book is a story about Mr. Morris Lessmore. It begins painting a picture of his love for books and words so much that he even writes his own story into a book daily. One day his story's words were scattered from a storm and he was lost. Then he met a lady who's books were flying her away. He was sad to find his book did not fly. Because he just needed a good story to continue, the lady gave him her favorite, which flew leading him to a library. From that day on, he leaped into every adventure and story as he read every book and continued writing his own story. In the end, his life among the books end, but his story is left behind for another one to continue.
The pictures in this book are exquisitely animated and intriguing. The imagination that each page contains would engross any young and old reader.
This book would be a wonderful way to talk about the power of books and stories with a class. The importance of sharing good books is emphasized throughout this book, so it would be neat to do a project in which students advertised (through art or writing) and then shared to the class their favorite books. Another project idea would be for students to write their own story of their lives with blank pages at the end to continually add to as the year goes on.
The following is a link from the author to the Academy Award winning short film that was inspired by this book: http://morrislessmore.com/
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