Rolie Polie Olie Board Book - Hardcover

Joyce, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060557168 ISBN 13: 9780060557164

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

Synopsis

Rolie Polie Olie lives a happy life on a planet full of friendly robots, with his parents, his sister Zowie, and his dog Spot, and if something goes wrong, a rumba dance fixes everything.

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Review:

Any book that features robots dancing around in their underpants is a book worth owning. William Joyce--creator of Dinosaur Bob and George Shrinks--brings his expansive, wildly colored illustrations to the story of a cute, buglike robot and his family. Rolie Polie Olie lives on a faraway planet with his mom and pop, his sister Zowie, and his doggie Spot. They spend a pretty ordinary day playing, working, eating, and getting ready for bed in this delightfully modest tale of robotic family happiness. Joyce's bouncy prose is engaging enough to be read aloud time and again: "You're Rolie hot and Polie tired. Your motor's zapped. Your piston's fired. Yes, okey dokey is the day when all you Rolie did was play." The illustrations are vintage Joyce, with a 1930s deco look that's polished without being soulless. The pictorial lushness is a nice counterpoint to the simplicity of the tale, which devotes a grand full-page spread to the little-known fact that "The Rolie Polie Rumba Dance was always done in underpants!" --Claire Dederer

About the Author:

William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children’s books are his true bailiwick (The Numberlys, Rolie Polie Olie, Dinosaur Bob, George Shrinks, and the #1 New York Times bestselling The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, which is also his Academy Award–winning short film, to name a few). He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. Talk to William Joyce and look at upcoming work at @HeyBillJoyce on Twitter and Instagram.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060557168
• ISBN 13: 9780060557164
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Joyce William