Yorick and Bones

Hear ye, hear ye! Father-daughter duo Jeremy and Hermione Tankard are pleased to introduce the first book in a rib-tickling, heartfelt full-color graphic novel series perfect for fans of Bird & Squirrel! Yorick is a skeleton who was just dug up after a few hundred years of sleep. He speaks like it too. "Forsooth, my joy, I barely can contain!" Bones is the hungry dog who did the digging. Though he cannot speak, he can chomp . What will become of these two unlikely companions? Will Yorick ever find the friend he seeks? Will Bones ever find a tasty treat that does not talk back? The course of true friendship never did run smooth.

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"The Tankards' debut collaboration is a delightfully quirky and lively introduction to Shakespearean conventions and iambic pentameter. Fun, forsooth." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[A] joyous, cross-generational read-aloud. A true comedy." - Booklist
"Hermione's droll text is slyly matched with Jeremy's fast-paced, emotive art, often with an inside-comics flair. It's tragedy and comedy combined, and that - plus flashes of merriment - captures the spirit of Yorick and his adorable companion." - The New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Hermione Tankard, Jeremy Tankard, Jeremy Tankard Tankard, Tankard Jeremy
• Assisted by: Jeremy Tankard (Illustration), Tankard Jeremy (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780062854315
• ISBN: 978-0-06-285431-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dogs and wolves, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Dogs, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Violence, JUVENILE FICTION: Comics & Graphic Novels / Humorous, JUVENILE FICTION: Comics & Graphic Novels / Animals, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Runaways, JUVENILE FICTION: Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical, JUVENILE FICTION: Comics & Graphic Novels / Paranormal, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Strangers, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations