Numberlys Storytime at Barnes and Noble, Special Sale through August 25th

On Saturday, July 12, at 11 a.m., stores nationwide will celebrate reading via a free event for children ages 3 to 7 featuring William Joyce's new picture book, The Numberlys. Based on the award-winning app, this is author William Joyce's homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray.

The Numberlys is the creative story about friends with dull lives because there are only boring numbers. So, they break out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and start creating numbers. One letter after another emerges until there are 26, and when the letters enter the world, something truly wondrous begins to happen like Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books! The book highlights the process of making art and the thrill of discovering new things through one's imagination.

From July 15 to August 25, while supplies last, customers who want to bring the fun home can buy The Numberlys for only $8.99 (regularly priced at $17.99) with the purchase of any children's book.

Use the Barnes and Noble store locator to find a storytime at a store near you!

William Joyce, Christina Ellis and friends at Toy Fair for the Numberlys Book Signing

Post by Moonbot Studios.

William Joyce Chats with the Turner Classic Movies Podcast

One of the first things that visitors to Moonbot Studios see is our lobby television that's usually tuned to Turner Classic Movies. William Joyce recently sat down with TCM's Podcast to talk about classic movies, the Numberlys animated short and how he was first introduced to their programming.

Check out both episodes of the podcast below:

Get a Sneak Preview of The Numberlys Short Film

Our latest short film, The Numberlys, has been screening around the globe at film festivals. Now you can catch an exclusive sneak peek at the Good Morning America blog, which says "when five, charismatic little inhabitants of this 'numberly' world decided to put their heads together ... they ended up creating something extraordinary."

View the clip and read more on the Good Morning America blog.





The full film will be released online soon; but if you can't wait, check out a screening of the Numberlys short film at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 24th during the Family Picture Show.

Don't forget that the Numberlys picture book by William Joyce and Christina Ellis will be available at a local bookstore near you on May 27th.

January 2012 Update

Greetings from the moon! We've been quite busy here at "The Museum of Future Children's Classics", aka, Moonbot Studios. Our new storybook app, Numberlys, out now on the iTunes App Store, happens to be the App of the Week for iPad and iPhone! Huzzah!

  

The Numberlys presents a fanciful depiction of the origins of the alphabet and is the newest interactive epic from Moonbot Studios, the creators of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. The Numberlys is a story App celebration of the early fantasy epics King Kong, Metropolis and Flash Gordon with a dollop of the Marx Brothers, a splash of the Fleischer Studios technicolor Superman and a little bit of the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

The Numberlys is huge in scope. It's an adventure! A mystery! A game! And a story!

It's a new way to entertain, learn and rediscover our storytelling "golden age".

Interested in learning more about William Joyce's copious creative endeavors? Animation Magazine's detailed report/interview, Expanding the Magical World of William Joyce, is profuse with the author's thoughts on projects past and future, including everything from Leafmen to Morris Lessmore to Rise of The Guardians. 

 

Last but certainly not least, we encourage you to enjoy this video, courtesy LPB.