Yorick and Bones

By Jeremy Tankard and Hermione Tankard

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: May 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9780062854322

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.

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Reviews for Yorick and Bones

[villemezbrown · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

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 Lee's original Thor comic book where he doths, haths, and -eths everything?Morality police: Yorick steals without consequence.Quibble police: The author says he decided that Yorick and Hamlet were childhood friends because Shakespeare "doesn't make it clear whether Yorick is a grown-up or not." This despite Hamlet referring to Yorick as a "man," who "hath borne me on his back a thousand times" until his death 23 years previous to the graveyard scene, when a 30-year-old Hamlet would have been seven (or even younger if you care to dispute Hamlet's age). Yorick was the king's court jester, so it seems highly unlikely he was a child peer of Hamlet's.

[sweetiegherkin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A Shakespearean-era skeleton is unearthed by an active dog and seems to have no sense that time has passed -- or that he is dead. This is meant to be a humorous tale and it certainly has its moments. I was entertained enough for this title but not as much as I wanted to be and not enough to continue with the series. The rambunctious dog nicknamed Bones is quite adorable. Yorick's cluelessness to his skeletal situation requires more suspension of disbelief than I could quite muster up on reading it.I do think it's sweet that the book is the creation of a father-child duo and I am impressed by the teen's commitment to using Shakespearean language. I wonder, however, if a lot of that will just go over the heads of the target audience of relatively young children.