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Ever since I read American Born Chinese and The Sign of Qin (sequel please!!!) I have desired that someone, somewhere make a Monkey King movie. Isn’t it odd that there hasn’t been one in America yet? Trickster gods in general don’t tend to appear on the big screen, but who wouldn’t love watching a monkey […]
Well, why not? It’s a nice teaser trailer. Let’s start Sunday off with a little Harry Potter action then, eh? Tracie Zimmer’s The Floating Circus get the full book trailer treatment this week. This is a very good example of how to do a low budget preview for a book without a lot of complications […]
Um. This is the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a very long time. Now I have just one sentence for you: Post-apocalyptic library science educational television show from the 1980s. What’s not to love? How to Eat Fried Worms even gets a shout-out. Sublime. Thanks to Jennifer Schultz and LISnews for the link. Here […]
Huh! Not a bad idea here. Actors wanting to play Jamaican need to learn how to speak Jamaican patois anyway. Why not learn via YouTube? Here’s a Dr. Seuss title and one by Robert Kraus, read with great aplomb. Thanks to bookshelves of doom for the link. And finally, this made me very happy. Thanks […]
Heaven only knows when my blog will be viewable again by you, oh reading public. So I’ll just post these videos and links into the great dark void and hope that somebody, at some point, sees them. Jennifer Schultz sent me a link that I have to warn you about. Beware of going to this […]
First things first. I wasn’t the biggest Tale of Despereaux fan when it came out and won a Newbery award. So it is with great interest that I watched the recent trailer for the upcoming filmed adaptation. As Bridge to Terabithia taught us, never trust what a trailer is telling you. To my mind, this […]
I was sent Nick of Time by Ted Bell to look at. Sure I was. A lot of people were. And while it didn’t interest me particularly I bore it no ill will. Recently its author went on Glenn Beck’s show, which allowed the two of them to do what non-readers of age ranges beyond […]
Author Vicki Cobb first came to my attention when she won the Siebert Honor for her fabulous scientifically-minded picture book I Face the Wind. Little did I know that she also has quite a few videos on her website in which kids use science to do cool and gross things. I recommend you check out […]
Few videos make me laugh out loud. This one did. By all accounts it is Mo Willems’ very brief acceptance speech after winning the Book Sense Book of the Year Award at Book Expo. I keep stealing links from bookshelves of doom. This is due in part to A) The fact that I am lazy […]
A couple book trailers to begin your day. It occurs to me that maybe pop-up books are better designed for the book trailer format than their stagnant cousins. I mean, they move already. Why not take them to their logical extreme? With that in mind, this here’s The Castaway Pirates. Thanks to Cynsations for the […]