Video Sunday: Steampunk rodentia
Now this is really neat. There’s a series called BOOKD through THINKR (apparently E’s are considered gauche these days) that will take a topic and really go into it with a panel of experts. In this particular case the question is whether or not you should re-read Charlotte’s Web. Author Bruce Coville and teacher/blogger/author Monica Edinger (amongst others) give their two cents. Really nicely edited and shot, don’t you think?
In other news, I had no idea that the Royal Shakespeare Company had created a staged adaptation of The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban. Hoban died just last year in 2012. I feel a bit miffed that he didn’t get to see this. Maybe he got a sneaky peak in some way. At any rate, it look fantastic (love the ending on the second video). I just wonder how they pulled off The Caws of Art. I’ve two videos here for the same production. Love them both for very different reasons.
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Thanks to Stefan for the links!
Sometimes I like to step into an alternate universe where I grew up in the USSR and watched television like this version of The Hobbit. Instead I grew up on the old Rankin & Bass version. Which was better? Um . . .
Thanks to Educating Alice for the link!
And kudos to The New York Times for this lovely Christoph Neimann illustrated video of an interview Sendak conducted with NPR.
When I die, let’s do that. That would be fun. Make a note of it.
And finally, for the off-topic part, gold gold goldy gold. I don’t even know if you could label it “Off-Topic” since it involves a child reading. Or rather, a three-year-old child “reading”. I know it’s three minutes but I seriously sat down and watched the whole thing because it’s a fascinating case study in what words kids pick up on when they hear stories. The “but then” particularly amuses.
Many thanks to Stephany Aulenback for sharing that.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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Hmmm… Manny the Rat looks uncomfortably like the Russian Gollum. Just kidding. So excited to see those trailers for the RSC’s MOUSE AND HIS CHILD production, one of my all-time favorite books. And more than the Caws of Art, how about the Last Visible Dog?
Love that Vivi reading! Pasgetti for dinner?! I see a future children’s librarian here; did you see the way she held up the book to show the pictures while she was reading?! So cute!