Tag: Rise of the Guardians

This post has been corrected, as indicated below. William Joyce first began crafting back stories for Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy nearly 20 years ago, as bedtime tales for his own children. Now Joyce’s storytelling is spawning the 2012 Dreamworks Animation movie “Rise of the Guardians” and an accompanying series of young adult fantasy novels, the first of which, “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King,” hit stores in October. “It seemed odd and slightly criminal that we know what Superman’s origins are, but these guys that we believe in, we don’t know,” said Joyce, a children’s author and illustrator whose book “A Day with Wilbur Robinson” was the basis for the 2007 Walt Disney animated movie “Meet the Robinsons” and whose Disney Channel series “Rolie Polie Olie” has won three Emmy awards. “I remember as ...