Video Sunday: It’s a YA kind of day

This week most of what I found was of a YA bent.  This is all the more appropriate since I discovered that tomorrow’s Kidlit Drink Night will be held at the same place and time as David Levithan’s Teen Author Drink Night. 

The bulk of authors interviewed here by Scholastic mention children’s literature when asked what books inspired them to become authors.  So how teen is this video really?

It’s nice when a book you like gets a little more love amongst the masses.  I’m not saying that if Al Roker likes something it’s more legitimate or anything, but it is oddly satisfying.  In this particular case, Nathan Wilson’s 100 Cupboards got a bit of the spotlight.  That’s cool right there, but I also recognize one of the kids in the audience as a young woman who came to my last Children’s Literary Cafe to interview Raina Telegemeier. 

Speaking of Nathans . . . I confess to you all that until last night I had never actually watched the Twilight movie.  But it was on TV so Matt and I settled down to watch all two plus hours of the thing.  I can say this much: Great cinematography and choice of landscape.  And the red truck.  That was a superb red truck.  That’s . . . pretty much all I can say politely about it. So I was primed and ready for this Nathan Lane in Eclipse joke this morning.

Speaking of doom (that was a stretch, wasn’t it?), YA author James Kennedy recently had his Dome of Doom party.  And from this post on his blog it was, and I don’t think I’m generalizing here, perhaps the greatest party in the history of man.  Part of the reason?  A fighting arena made of PVC pipe with its own band.