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That is, as you can see, is one Terry Pratchett discussing his recent knighthood. A pity we haven’t an American-version of knighthood over on this side of the pond. My husband recently told me about a film that may or may not be in the works right now where an ancient evil rises and the […]
Many videos. Many many. First up, the one I couldn’t embed. Through the process of growing copious amounts of facial hair around the mouth-like part of the face, author/illustrator Adam Rex has finished his fundraising for underfunding classrooms to the tune of a sweet $1,120. Now check out the video that goes along with his […]
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 […]
This is a video I sincerely wish I could embed on this blog, because it is without a doubt a magnificent idea. Award winning photographer Eamonn McCabe went about Britain photographing various writers’ studios. You can see the results here, and it’s a delight. Russell Hoban’s is described as "the best room ever" shortly after […]
Who Is Señor Calavera from Yuyi Morales on Vimeo. The talented illustrator is a true artist. Particularly if the realm of pupeteership is within their grasp. After hearing countless schoolchildren ask her, "really, who is Señor Calavera?" time and time again, award winner Yuyi Morales decided to come up with this little video. The world’s […]
This is a new thing I’d like to try. Each Video Sunday I have fun vids but often they fall, as they say, "below the fold". My individual postings have a limited amount of characters they can display before the infamous "Read More" pops up and everything else I’ve written falls out of sight. My […]
Video Sunday: “It’s Not Appetizing. Why Do You Think the Guy Doesn’t Want to Eat it for 30 Pages?”
|Someone should go out and systematically characterize the different levels of nerdom out there. Otherwise, how am I suppose to catalog myself when I fall goofy-in-love with a video as nerdalicious as this? A group of anti-Walmart advocates have found the perfect way to make their case: spoof Harry Potter. The result is an oddly […]
Mark this one in the files of How Did I Miss This? I loved me my Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka when I reviewed it in August so how’d I go for a whole month without seeing the book trailer? A mystery. Enjoy it now anyway. Knucklehead featuring Jon Scieszka from Jon Scieszka on Vimeo. Thanks […]
Recently Jay Asher urged fellow YA authors to post their Senior portraits on their respective blogs. Much along the same lines but infinitely worse are videos of authors from their Senior years. Monica recently located Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)’s graduation speech from 1988 which is now on YouTube. Wow. Ah. To be young and […]
Illustrator Dan Santat is now the proud father of a beautiful bouncing baby boy. But before this happened he was also the creator of this truly fabulous book trailer. It’s for Anne Isaacs’ "The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch" (a book I’ve been meaning to take a peek at) and is a fine example of how […]