She’ll have a book contract within a week. This was undoubtedly the most popular video of the past week, making the rounds amongst folks who (A) like cute French kids (B) like Winnie-the-Pooh and (C) are aware that Pooh books are strikingly lacking in “singes”. Many thanks to BoingBoing for the link.
But really, this week 100 Scope Notes had all the good videos. In fact, if you read your 100 Scope Notes regularly (as I know you should) then you’ve probably seen all of these already. Like this young woman reading Fox in Socks faster than any human has ever been able to before.
What really stands out to me while watching that video is how remarkable Seuss’s writing is, was, evermore shall be. He did something so original that it can never be effectively replicated. Now I need to run off and read some Fox in Socks.
Oh, how adorable. I’ve only attended the ALA Media Awards since they got huge. But Travis managed to find an old C-Span video of the award announcement from way back in 2001. A full ten years ago. How time has changed things. And did I hear Lisa Von Drasek screaming “Yes!” when Casey at the Bat was mentioned as a Caldecott winner? I think I did. In any case, these are always fun to watch, if only to hear the reactions from the audience.
Fabulous find, Travis! Thanks to 100 Scope Notes for the link.
In this next one, I saw on Swiss Miss that a photographer had taken a lot of neat photographs around New York, many in Bryant Park behind my library. I then discovered this video of how he made the photos. The first one shown here is in the Bryant Park fountain. Apparently they took some in my library as well (undoubtedly when the guards were looking the other way). Here’s a video on how they were made.
Thanks to Swiss Miss for the link.
Booktrailer time. Carolrhoda Books (in conjunction with Lerner) put out this great little quick look at how Stephen Gammell paints his newest creation Mudkin. Gammell. There is no one on this good green earth that kind paint like he can. No one.
Thanks for the shout-out! And I’m with you on the crowd reactions being awesome in that older Newbery/Caldecott video. My favorite is when someone shouts “I love that book!” when Click, Clack, Moo is announced.
Congratulation for your “trouvaille” même chez the french people.
But why not one top 100 on the comicsbooks?
Amitiés de France!
Do you mean a Top 100 Graphic Novels for Kids poll? Could be fun. Small problem being that it might be hard to come up 100 really great books at this point. In even 5 years from now, sure! But at the moment . . . tis a question.
You blow my mind every Sunday. Really. Thank you.
Aw. Shucks. No problemo.
I had no idea CSPAN used to broadcast the awards announcements. When did they stop doing that?