Video Sunday – Autumnal Abundance
Good Sunday to you, poppins. At this moment in time I’m sitting at a table at Columbia University at the New York Times Great Children’s Read. As I soak up what little sun remains of the year, enjoy some videos on my behalf.
I’ll have to see this first one when it comes out to figure out if it’s any good or not, but here’s the trailer for the new televisions series, "Tin Man". I’m ashamed to say that it took me almost the entire ad before I figured out who the Tin Man even was.
Thanks to Dark Horizons for the link.
Author Stacey Cochran has been taping and placing onto YouTube a series in which he records the entire process of finding a literary agent. I’ll just put up Stacey making his Literary Agency Query Package, but I think he may be best known for the video where he gets a positive response for the very first time.
Thanks to Bookninja for the link.
Seven Impossible Things posted this one a little while ago on their site. Here’s how they described it: It’s a Quidditch match as conveyed in American Sign Language. Really, you don’t have to know ASL to understand it {rather, you can still appreciate it, even if you’re not fluent in ASL}, as his poem is mostly comprised of what are called classifiers, or ways of showing shapes and movement in ASL (or, if you’re a nerd: classifiers move through the signing space to iconically represent the actions of their referents). And this is hard to explain, but each sign begins with a letter of the alphabet, and he goes from A to Z (it’s a particular kind of ASL poem, and it’s especially clever how his last one is “Z” for Harry’s scar). This poem is short. And awesome. And, hey, you don’t have to turn up the volume. At first, the man is signing “An ASL Poem: Harry Potter and Quidditch.” That’s all you need to know. Then, just watch him go.
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Now that Banned Books Week is long over, here’s a video made by ALA about the top banned books of the year.
Thanks to Kids Lit for the link.
I saw a stunning (if padded) production of The Wolves in the Walls at the New Victory Theater here in New York. You can watch a small video about the production here, or you may prefer to watch the video of the upcoming Comet in Moominland show. Thanks to Children’s Illustration for the latter.
Finally, word has gotten around that I tend to post one off-topic video per week. This week it comes from the very on-topic illustrator Dan Santat. This one works best if you know nothing about it aside from the fact that the kids here are teenagers and that their group is named The Wrong Trousers.
And now I will go off and hum this song for the rest of the day.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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You just totally made this compulsive finger-speller’s day. SO c-o-o-l!