{"id":888,"date":"2020-04-17T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/?p=888"},"modified":"2020-04-18T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T14:44:21","slug":"video-the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/2020\/04\/17\/video-the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/730\/2020\/03\/the-fantastic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-892\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, &#8220;The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,&#8221; was first a picture book by William Joyce. The book was written by Mr. Joyce to show his appreciation for his mentor, William Morris, a children&#8217;s book publisher.  You can find the book in Henry Ford&#8217;s Media Center by <a href=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/34709\/search\/all?q=The%20fantastic%20flying%20books%20of%20Mr.%20Morris%20Lessmore&amp;ists=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"clicking on this link (opens in a new tab)\">clicking on this link<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When creating the film, Mr. Joyce designed the look and behavior of the main character, Morris Lessmore, after silent film legend, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Buster Keaton (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.busterkeaton.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buster Keaton<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Younger children will enjoy the sweet story of a man and his magical books, older children will be mesmerized by the physical comedy of Buster Keaton when they do a Google search of his films. Adults will need a box of Kleenex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy! Here&#8217;s the link to the video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ad3CMri3hOs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ad3CMri3hOs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, &#8220;The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,&#8221; was first a picture book by William Joyce. The book was written by Mr. Joyce to show his appreciation for his mentor, William Morris, a children&#8217;s book publisher. You can find the book in Henry Ford&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}