Video Sunday: Horseshoe Balding + Massive Sideburns = Awesome

I like to say that people love process. Particularly process in action. So I thought it was particularly keen when Leila Roy linked to these two videos of artist Quentin Blake discussing his own artistic process for a camera.  Video #1 is contemporary and Video #2 is a piece about his work on a program called (I love this name) Jackanory.  And who knew that there had been a live action Arabel and Mortimer puppet show?  And check out Blake’s awesome 1977 sideburns.  They don’t hardly make ’em like THAT no more.  The glimpse of Roald Dahl is interesting too.  Many thanks to bookshelves of doom for the link.

I had heard before that something called IttyBittyLit was making videos out of picture books.  And now you can see Siobhan Vivian’s Vunce Upon a Time in action.  Siobhan says that there is no feeling like having your own book read back to you.  I think she also lucked out with the reader.

I’d forgotten all about this. Certainly I haven’t looked at it since I actually started working for The New York Public Library. Remember the one and only episode where the Seinfeld characters go into a library? This is the moment when the library cop, Mr. Bookman, get’s on Jerry’s case for not returning Tropic of Cancer all those years ago. I’m fascinated by the inclusion of The Five Chinese Brothers (written by a former employee of my own children’s room) in the conversation.

Just One More Book, inarguably the world’s most compelling children’s literary podcast, has gone visual!   In an attempt to lure in a new listenership they are drawing in the ears by making a plea to the eyes.  This is their podcast concentrating on the lovely (and something about the very name is compelling) book Bird.