Video Sunday: “When did I start drawing? When did you stop?”

A particularly profitable crop of videos this fine and frozen morning (snowfall has finally hit New York).  This first one will make your day.  Particularly if you feel your skin itch everytime you see another film or television personality with a "new book for kids".  Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black together skewer the idea of the celebrity picture book within an inch of its life. 

I find it amusing that of all the publishers they went with Simon & Schuster.  Thanks to Adam Rex for the link.

Awesome!  It’s Where the Wild Things Are, only done entirely in American Sign Language.

Thanks to Sam Riddleburger for the link.

Found this Lost Works of Judy Blume from SNL somewhere.  It’s pretty funny (and don’t you feel sorry for poor John Malkovich when you consider how they gave him such long hair?).  I mostly include it here because I suspect that the covers of her books in the montage at the start are from my library system.  My tip-off?  Take a close look at the cover of Double Fudge.  See where the cut-outs are covered up because whoever wrapped the jacket in plastic failed to cut out the white paper backing?  That’s the kind of thing you only see on library books.  Boo-yah!  Caught ya, SNL! 

Thanks to PW Children’s Bookshelf for the link.

I don’t want to overload you with goodies, but I couldn’t help but include this interview with Shaun Tan.  You may know him best for The Arrival, but long before that he had picture books.  One was called The Lost Thing and it looks as if it’s being turned into a short film.  Tan and CGI make for an interesting mix (though of course he did work on movies like Wall*E, so it’s not a huge surprise to see this).

Thanks to Drawn for the link.

And finally, we come to Babymouse.  Sweet sweet Babymouse.  Penned by sweet sweet people.  The production value hose gets turned on full throttle, bringing you not only Babymouse herself, not only the Holms, not only Felicia Furrypaws, but on top of all that the series’ equally adorable editor Shana Corey.

The kid’s got class.  Be sure to go to this site for more Babymouse information and even an Educators Guide.

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