Yorick and Bones by Jeremy Tankard and Hermione Tankard - OPTIONAL

Yorick and Bones by Jeremy Tankard and Hermione Tankard, 131 pages, GRAPHIC NOVEL, HarperAlley (HarperCollins), 2020, $10. 9780062854315

Content G

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Yorick is a skeleton who must have lived during Shakespearean times, since he speaks like the Bard.  He is dug up in modern times by a dog he names Bones.  Together they discover what friendship means.

While the graphic art is fun and colorful, there isn’t much of a plot here.   It really does consist of Yorick being dug up by a dog and discovering that A) he is a skeleton and B) a dog can be a friend.  The Shakespeare talk is amusing but might be difficult to understand for younger readers.

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