Video Sunday: “Sometimes he shaves his head and wears a beard. Sometimes he shaves his beard and wears his head.”

Found a book trailer the other day from, of all places, Kane/Miller Books.  Yup!  One for a book called Conspiracy 365 by Gabrielle Lord that tilts more in the cinematic trailer direction.  When we’re discussing the different kinds of book trailers out there (can we shorten that term to something quick like LitFlicks, even though that phrase is awful?) this one definitely falls in the movie category.  Ain’t half shabby neither.  Thanks to William Waldman for the link.

What do your Caldecott Award winning illustrators do in their spare time?  Apparently they embarrass themselves publicly on purpose.  I read in School Library Journal that Amanda Stern, who penned You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (Hyperion, 2007) under the pseudonym Fiona Rosenbloom, had created something called The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series.  In this series "storytellers, writers, and musicians . . . read from their works as long as they’re willing to do something embarrassing."  And one of the fellows performing?  None other than Brian Selznick.  Very fun.

Finally, the off-topic video comes today via Children’s Illustration.  All I can say about it is that both this and The Dolly Song are excellent representative examples of what my brain will play on a loop when I’m 102 and losing my mind.  It is, of course, from U900 the famous Japanese ukulele duo.