Good morning, my fine and frisky young denizens of this sphere upon which we make our homes. I’m particularly chipper today as I’ve just returned from a lovely trip to Boston where I attended the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and managed NOT to lose my glasses in the process. More on that tomorrow, but today […]
Video Sunday: Hits ’em With His Head Edition
September 27, 2015 by
So, fun fact. I read a serious 2017 Newbery contender a couple months ago and it looks like they may release it in the nearish future (February 2nd). I’m calling 2016 as The Year of the Fox, by the way, since both Sara Pennypacker and Kathi Appelt have fox related middle grades on the horizon. […]
Video Sunday: Dancing in the Stacks
October 12, 2014 by
A veritable plethora of dancing librarians greet you this weekend. Now I’ll be the first to say that if you’re going to have librarians or library patrons dancing in a video then the video has to be pretty darn impressive in some way. Life’s too short otherwise. But thing is, these folks are pretty extraordinary. […]
Video Sunday: Pregnant iguanas galore
May 25, 2014 by
This may sound a little crazy, but even though I’m on maternity leave for three months or so, this video made me nostalgic for my system. It’s the rather remarkable Why Libraries Matter short documentary from The Atlantic. Beautifully shot and LOOK! There’s Rita Meade again! Somebody give that gal her own show. While we’re […]
Video Sunday: “One floating duck does not a children’s book make”
May 11, 2014 by
I’ll confess to you that I think I just discovered the secret to Video Sunday. If I “Favorite” videos I see in Twitter throughout the week I end up having a MUCH stronger series than if I’d just scouted them out on my own. Phew! Happy to know there’s a secret there. Now in the […]
Video Sunday: “He cried at the BEGINNING of Old Yeller”
January 19, 2014 by
It’s always wonderful when I run across a video that declares to me MAKE ME THE FIRST ONE IN THE VIDEO SUNDAY POST! But when I heard that Shaun Tan has a new book coming out on what appears to be April 24th of this year called Rules of Summer, it was just a matter […]
Video Sunday: If I could chose my own cool library name I’d go with “In Transit”
August 25, 2013 by
A conservative estimate would say that around seven people sent me this particular video this week. A hat tip to every last person who set out to alert then. I wasn’t necessarily going to make a Video Sunday this week, but after watching this I just couldn’t pass this up. The editing, man, the editing!! […]
Video Sunday: She’s not your wife. She’s the princess.
May 26, 2013 by
Can you think of a better way to kick off? Not I, said the fly. Yes, the world’s most confused woman (not me) is celebrating her 50th birthday. I am pleased to report that Harper Collins is allowing me to reveal this video today. The strange thing about Amelia B is that she seems to […]
Video Sunday: That cake’s my most bestest creation
October 7, 2012 by
Who says you need to be Ed Emerley to make fingerprints dance? A canny bit of book promotion, this title is out this year but I certainly hadn’t heard of it until now (Laurence King Publishers, anyone?). Now I’ll need to see it for myself. It’s Let’s Make Some Great Fingerprint Art by Marion Deuchars. […]
Book Talking of the Literal Variety
September 1, 2012 by
As you may have heard Candlewick Press is all about the picture books these days. In fact, they’re so into them that they’ve become vastly ambitious and have launched a campaign called “We Believe in Picture Books”. Part of the plan is to post a video a day for a year celebrating the great picture […]
A Fuse #8 Production: Video Nostalgia
October 7, 2011 by
Folks, it has occurred to me that while I love this blog to pieces, I spend an awful lot of my waking hours here. Time to start instituting a couple ground rules. I’m still going to blog every day, but some posts are going to have to be a bit less in-depth than others. Which […]
Video Sunday: A group of gorillas is called a troupe.
August 1, 2010 by
I don’t usually start off with a book trailer, but for Yummy I’ll make an exception. Original music, a good use of the panels, etc. I might have wanted more real world footage, but that’s not essential. As it stands, this reminds me of why book trailers work best when they’re for graphic novels and […]
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