Sleepy Time Olie (Rolie Polie Olie Series)

by William Joyce

Overview

Olie must find a way to turn Pappy’s frown upside down—all before bedtime—in this classic picture book-turned-beloved-TV-show from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.

It’s bedtime in the Rolie Polie world, but where oh where is Pappy? He’s fallen down and bonked his head and can’t unfrown! Olie can’t go to sleep without a bedtime story from Pappy, but can Olie cheer him up in time? Olie’s super silly ray should do the trick! A most unusual bedtime book and a lovely ode to the importance of grandparents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481489638
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Series:	World of William Joyce Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	641,412
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

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.

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.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning series TV series Rolie Polie Olie comes another marvelous tale starring the round robots we all know and love.

Rolie Polie Olie's day is over, and he is as sleepy as he can be. He waits for Pappy to come by and read him a bedtime story, but as the minutes pass, Pappy is nowhere to be found. The whole family wonders what happened to him. Pappy finally appears in disarray. "I bonked my head./I just fell down./I broke my smile. I can't unfrown." Poor Pappy is feeling bruised and old, sad and tired. Determined to cheer him up, Olie goes right to work making a super-silly ray. He uses the goofiest of ingredients, from a silly hat and a book of jokes to a loud hiccup from their dog, Spot. He sprays the room with bubbles of happiness, and slowly Pappy begins to feel better. The whole family swirls through the air and dances in the bubbles. "I've never felt so 'swonderful, so 'smarvelous, so 'swirlish!" When they return to the ground, with sleepy eyes, Pappy reads them a perfect lullaby.

Joyce is a master at creating a blissful story in an imaginative world of enchanting characters. A silly ray that can blow the blues away? Who could ask for a better thing? Using high-tech color with perfect lines and humorous accents, Joyce produces a wondrous escape for young readers. This robot family is as warm and caring as the next. Olie's grand fondness for his Pappy shines through, as does his ingenious plan to fix his broken smile. Everything in the Rolie Polie world is a robot, including beds, doors, and teakettles. And every one of them is full of personality. This wonderful world incorporates the familial traditions of yesteryear with the look of a fantastical futuristic universe. A whimsical, heartwarming tale for any youngster. (Amy Barkat)

bn.com

In Sleepy Time Olie by William Joyce, the robot boy waits for Pappy to tuck him into bed. But when Pappy hits his head the man "comes in/ all unwound" and bound for bed himself. Quickly, Olie conjures up a cure that has the once-unhappy Pappy floating in a bubble of fun. (Oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-Gr 2-The robot family introduced in Rolie Polie Olie (2001) and Snowie Rolie (2000, both HarperCollins) is back. When it is time for bed, Olie is used to his special routine: "Happy Pappy, warm and wise,/reads lullabies and hushabies/beneath the sleepy Rolie skies." The little one is worried when the elder robot arrives late one evening, feeling old and discombobulated: "I bonked my head./I just fell down./I broke my smile./I can't unfrown.- My step has not a bit of spring,/my hip has no hooray.-My cheeks do not feel cheeky./My red-letter day has grayed." Olie tries to cheer him up by building "a super silly ray" made out of a funny bone, a hopscotch hop, a book of jokes, and a loud hiccup. One dose of the "Pappy pick-me-up" and the robot is dancing in bubbles and feeling young again. The computer-enhanced illustrations are awash in eye-popping color and the dark backgrounds enhance the three-dimensional effect. The simple, sweet tale about this extended robot family is enlivened by Joyce's signature offbeat images and catchy rhymes.-Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ontario, Canada Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

Rolie Polie Olie is a robot on a roll with sequels, toddler stories in board format, toys, and his own Disney TV show. (Will he roll right on to the big screen next?) In this bedtime story about the Rolie Polie family, Joyce (Snowy Rolie, 2000, etc.) introduces Olie's grandpa, Pappy, who is feeling his age after arriving in a broken-down, depressed state due to a bump on his head. Olie mixes up some humorous ingredients to create a bubble ray gun "to help old Pappy ungrow up," a fanciful concept that will take some explaining to preschoolers, as will references to Elvis, a funny bone and a pelvis bone, and a whirling dervish. Joyce's weirdly wacky, round-headed robots are as appealing as ever, but some of his rhymes are more mechanical than magical. Almost every page has a different rhyme scheme, which causes the reader to struggle a little on the first reading, not knowing just which syllables should be accented to make the new meter fall into place. Rolie Polie Olie fans won't care about any of this, however, as Joyce's inventive ideas, rollicking rhymes, and readily recognizable, Rolie-Polie-round illustration style add up to a winning format with proven success. (Picture book. 2-6)

Kirkus Reviews

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