Video Sunday: Trailers, Links, and Dancing Jawas

Many of you know my style. I like picture books but don’t go all in for that ootsy cutesy stuff. Adorable animals? Puh-leeze. Puppy and kitty books do not render my knees rubber.  Newbery Honor winning authors do, however, and so I shall direct you to the book trailer for Kirby Larson’s upcoming true-life picture book Two Bobbies.  The trailer is nice, though I would have liked more pictures of the real animals.  Then again, I suppose that there’s a danger that if you put photographs of the animals all over the trailer, people are going to assume that those same photos are in your book.  Book trailers have all kinds of rules no one has defined clearly yet!

Familiar with Inanimate Alice?  You should be.  Here’s the summary: "‘Inanimate Alice’ tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the first half of the 21st century, and her imaginary digital friend, Brad. Over ten episodes, each a self contained story, we see Alice grow from an eight year old living with her parents in a remote region of Northern China to a talented mid-twenties animator and designer with the biggest games company in the world."  Episode Four is now online.  Thanks to Monica for the link.

And to end on the nerdiest note imaginable, recently I attended ALA and I saw the Bookcart Drill Teams perform.  I’ll be posting my videos of the event soon enough, but we need to remember that there are other groups out there with dancing skills.  Take the recent Star Wars weekend at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  It’s adorably nerdy.