{"id":144857,"date":"2024-11-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=144857"},"modified":"2024-11-10T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T17:14:04","slug":"storytime-takeover-william-joyce-for-rocket-puppies-saturday-november-23-2024-at-10-am-square-books-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/storytime-takeover-william-joyce-for-rocket-puppies-saturday-november-23-2024-at-10-am-square-books-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime Takeover: William Joyce for Rocket Puppies\u00a0Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 10 am Square Books Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Join author William Joyce for a special storytime takeover as he reads from his new book, the &#8220;doggone adorable&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews) Rocket Puppies.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeXnHX3iA1KyHONI1JvKzDmuXO2HR5zi-hZ2lSneuIjUWi64DsvTMyLdbY86aVZiBYbz5vCFftOUm2OmA7Ok2RasMkD_UUx7pedZhcNOw3tAvPMCqDCqvOf2nThwGQBghRFocndRw?key=XF3Tj_UVjRczkHHrEStC5t1G\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a should-have-been-happy time, the earth is feeling sort of sad.\u00a0From people to bugs and birds to forks, smiles have disappeared, and bad\u00a0moods reign supreme. Then, from the outer reaches of Not-from-Here,\u00a0come the Rocket Puppies! These impossibly cute canines hiccup bubbles\u00a0that play songs, stop bees from stinging, and keep recesses rain-free.\u00a0Slowly but surely, everyone\u2019s frowns turn upside down. But not everyone\u00a0wants to be cheerful. Snarly McBummerpants is determined to glom onto\u00a0gloom. When he billows out Mopey Smoke, can the Rocket Puppies rally to\u00a0defeat this new foe?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children\u2019s books are his true bailiwick (<em>The Guardians <\/em>series, <em>Dinosaur Bob <\/em>series, <em>George Shrinks<\/em>, and the #1 New York Times bestselling <em>The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore<\/em>, which is also his Academy Award\u2013winning short film, to name a few). He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Rocket Puppies\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br>By William Joyce\u00a0<br>$18.99\u00a0<br>Publisher: Atheneum\/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books\u00a0<br>ISBN: 9781665961332\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join author William Joyce for a special storytime takeover as he reads from his new book, the &#8220;doggone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":144858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[5,4,602,603,30687],"class_list":["post-144857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-square-books","tag-square-books-jr","tag-william-joyce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/william-joyce.png?fit=295%2C295&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144859,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857\/revisions\/144859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}