Yorick and Bones

Name: Yorick and Bones
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jeremy Tankard
ISBN: 9780063081956

Author: Jeremy Tankard, Hermione Tankard

Narrator: Gary Furlong, Maxwell Glick, Morag Sims, Alister Austin, Joel Froomkin

Unabridged: 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Published: 04/13/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Graphic Novels, Animal Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

An original full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from authors Jeremy and Hermione Tankard, performed by Gary Furlong, Maxwell Glick, Morag Sims, Alister Austin, Joel Froomkin, and featuring a full sound design! 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.

About Jeremy Tankard

Jeremy Tankard is the bestselling authorstrator of the Grumpy Bird picture books. He has always loved comics and planned to make a career of them when he was about nine years old. He discovered the joys of Shakespeare in high school when his drama teacher cast him in a production of The Tempest. He has loved all things Shakespeare ever since. His book Yorick and Bones sees these two interests collide in the most unexpected ways. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children.

About Hermione Tankard

Hermione Tankard discovered her love of Shakespeare in fourth grade when she asked her father to buy her a copy of Romeo and Juliet. She read it to herself as a bedtime story for the next two weeks. Little did she know it would one day lead to a job writing new Shakespearean adventures with her dad. When not helping her dad with their book Yorick and Bones, she enjoys acting and singing onstage.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rod on September 25, 2020

Yorick, the lamented skull in Shakespeare's Hamlet, is dug from the ground in the present day by a passing dog and walks around scaring people with his iambic pentameter and skeletal form. Did we need a kid's book scripted entirely in iambic pentameter? Wasn't it bad enough when we had to read Stan......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on February 02, 2025

I love this graphic novel so much! I can just feel the awkwardness, the loneliness and the reality of the main skeleton character. A skeleton has been woken from its grave and has come to a world ages after it’s been buried. It tries to befriend the people as it meets but is soon being abandoned as......more

Goodreads review by laura (bookies & cookies) on April 09, 2021

Fun father-daughter collab inspired by Shakespeare! Though the art reads more juvenile, I would recommend this as a read-with for the younger kids and a read-alone for middle-grade students.......more