![]() They’re heroic figures because what they do is not quaint and cute, it’s global. “Santa Claus, the Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, the Man on the Moon, Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny, Mother Goose-they all know each other, they hang out, they work together,” Joyce explains. The title doesn’t begin to suggest the genius of its premise which, we admit, we wish we’d thought of. ![]() ![]() So began a long creative odyssey that ultimately led to a new series of books, The Guardians of Childhood, and a brand-new animated film (the first, we suspect, of a trilogy) called The Rise of the Guardians, which opens the day before Thanksgiving. And I was like, ‘Ah! I’ll look into that.’ ” “Jack had just lost a tooth, so the Tooth Fairy was on their minds,” he recalls, “and she asked me if the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus knew each other. On an August day some 15 or so years ago, he was hanging out with his two children-daughter Mary Katherine and son Jackson-when Mary asked a fateful question. Author, artist, animator and all-around storytelling wizard, William Joyce remembers the very moment that his greatest inspiration struck. ![]()
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