No time to dilly-dally, people! We’ve most of our peers and betters living it up in Las Vegas. Let’s soothe our sorrows of not attending ourselves in some lovely videos then, eh whot? First off, you may have known that there was a recent Boston Children’s Book Trivia Night. But did you know there was […]
Video Sunday: And to think . . .
And here I thought that Dr. Seuss films began with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T and those short animated specials and ended with stuff like the CGI fests we’re seeing in theaters practically every year. Not so! Good old stop-animation also has had a hand in Seuss’s silver screen career. Interestingly, this is the […]
Video Sunday: Sleepy post-Thanksgiving posting

Missed posting this last week. Those Peacekeepers really look spot on, don’t they? We’ll see how it goes but this trailer gives us a sense that The Hunger Games may be worth watching. Would have liked to see a little Haymitch, of course. So! We never filmed the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival at NYPL, but […]
Video Sunday: Bluebeard ain’t too shabby either

Morning, everyone! While exploring various French children’s literature blogs earlier this week I stumbled across this remarkable little book trailer for a pop-up book. Love the children’s literature references, though I admit to being baffled by the inclusion of Madame Butterfly. Ah well. I did also notice a movie trailer of some sort coming out […]
Video Sunday: Trailer Bonanza

A little more than a year ago I conducted a Children’s Literary Salon at NYPL with a bunch of talented female graphic novelists of children’s literature (Colleen AF Venable (Hamster and Cheese), Raina Telegemeier (Smile), and Tracy White (How I Made it to Eighteen)). It was recorded for posterity (unlike most of my Salons) and […]
Video Sunday: The singer would be significantly less weird looking if he had eyebrows, yes?
It’s Kind of a Funny Story Story
Video Sunday: Pep
Video Sunday: “So I like to think that I killed him.”

Consider the book trailer not just as an advertisement for a book, but as a short film in and of itself. When we consider the future of online book advertising, we may notice that films for books are becoming longer and better constructed than those of the past. This video starring M.T. Anderson is no […]
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