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Who Was Chuck Jones?

Who Was? Ser.

by Jim Gigliotti

Synopsis

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of many classic animated cartoon shorts. They starred Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, PepU Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner Brothers characters. When he moved on to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his work includes a series of Tom and Jerry shorts as well as the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Jones was nominated for eight Academy Awards, won three, and received an honorary Oscar for his work in the animation industry. His career spanned almost seventy years, during which he made over 250 animated films, including What's Opera, Doc? , a classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd short that is considered to be one of the greatest cartoons of all time.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2018
ISBN-13 9780448488578
ISBN-10 0448488574
Class Copyright
Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group
Subject Design
File Size 27 MB
Number of Pages 112
Length of Recording 2
Language ENG
Shelf No. NA938
Grade Range 3-7
Ages 8-12
Lexile 1010L