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Oh, why not. Let’s just start with what is undoubtedly the best thing ever. Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 90-Second Newbery and James Kennedy, the author and organizer, was clever enough to know how to start things off. It seems that Aaron Zenz and his Boogie Woogie kids have made another video. And darned if it isn’t even better than their previous (genius) efforts. I liked it so much I’m including the Making Of film as well.
Those of you already familiar with the PBS Digital Studio’s remixes of Mr. Rogers, Julia Child, and Bob Ross (boy is that catchy) know that no one is safe when it comes to classic public television. They did a nice job with LeVar here too. It’s fun to watch based on his shifting facial hair alone.
Seems to me that LeVar Burton had his way of recommending books. Iron Guy Carl of Boys Rock, Boys Read has a different method: Scare them away with a PSA. Works for me!
Now here we have a movie coming out based on a YA novel I never read. I did listen to the Read It and Weep podcast episode about it, but now I suppose that was insufficient. I dunno. The creepy kiddo looks interesting but I may just hold out for The Last Apprentice film that’s coming out soon anyway.
Oksey-doksey. New publishing model time. It happens. Seems Rebecca Emberley and Deidre Randall are creating a new “hybrid children’s book imprint” called two little birds (something about that name just speaks to me). They’re pairing a picture book in print form with an app of the same title and publishing them simultaneously. The first book is the sure-fire winner The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, catchy song in tow.
You can learn more about their Kickstarter campaign here and read the article about it here.
Author Alan Silberberg has a different method of bringing videos and books together. He animates his thoughts on writerly advice. Like so:
Sweet screams never sounded so right.
Finally, the off-topic video (I did well this week, didn’t I? – she said like an eager puppy). Normally I’d eschew something as tawdry as a Gangnam Style parody, but . . . but . . . there are literary references! And for once the idea of looking like you’re riding a tiny pony makes odd sense.
Thanks to Jeanne Birdsall for the link.
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There was no question in my mind which video to begin with today. I cannot help but think that meeting Quentin Blake must be akin to meeting Roald Dahl. The man is a living legend and this video is a true treasure. Would that every illustrator were half so thorough when discussing the preservation, creation, and process that goes into their art. A very big thank you to Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels for the link.
Mind you, Quentin had some stiff competition for the top video of the day. He only narrowly beat out this Reading Rainbow remix.
I’ve been trying to identify all the books in the video but it is incredibly tough. I can account for Carl Hiaasen’s Flush, Christopher Paul Curtis’s Elijah of Buxton, and what appears to be a Civil Rights book that I can never quite catch the title of. Other spotted books are welcome. Mention them! And thanks to mom for the link. Probably the only time you’ll ever see the New Orleans Bounce on this blog, I’d wager.
Benefit books come out occasionally but rarely do they incorporate Broadway stars. Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project is benefiting breast cancer research. You’ve got big name vocalists singing songs from big name composers with a book illustrated by big name artists (for the most part). Here’s the roster:
” . . . the project’s book component also features a distinctive cover illustration by fabled cartoonist/playwright Jules Feiffer, along with a foreword written by stage and screen legend Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. Among the award-winning illustrators lending their talents are Selina Alko, Lynne Avril, Paulette Bogan, Beowulf Boritt, Lauren Castillo, R. Gregory Christie, Seymour Chwast, Jane Dyer, Richard Egielski, Daniel Glucksman, Julia Gran, Ying-Hwa Hu, Genevieve LeRoy-Walton, Betsy Lewin, Anna Louizos, Victor Mays, Emily Arnold McCully, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jon J Muth, Sean Qualls, Peter H. Reynolds, Marc Simont, Javaka Steptoe, Melissa Sweet, Cornelius Van Wright, Neil Waldman, Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Tony Walton, Gary Zamchick, and Paul O. Zelinsky.”
I had no idea Jules Feiffer was a fable. And here I was convinced he was a real person. In any case, impressive list of names! A couple I don’t know but most I do. And here, on a related note, is a glimpse at one of the songs.
Thanks to Rich Michelson for the info.
Speaking of Julie Andrews, I’m sure you’ve all seen Stephen Colbert’s interview with her in conjunction with his own picture book release of
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Who can think about Kids Book Website Tuesday when the phone keeps ringing and I have to make nametags for StoryFUSION and I haven't collected enough media cords for my workshop yet?????
I can!! Ta Ra Ta Ra! I can think about Kids Book Website Tuesday. Of course, right now my favorite KBW is Battle of the Books. DUH!! With amazingness happening at every cliff-hanging turn! Today, Judge Jewel Parker Rhodes chose Drawing from Memory to move to the semi-finals. I have hope for Inside Out and Back Again to rise from the dead in the final round.
I was hoping to share a Reading Rainbow site but since the show was taken off, PBS no longer hosts a site for it. But, never fear, Reading Rainbow fans. I have heard from very credible sources that Reading Rainbow will come out with an app for your iPhones this Spring!!! YAY! Take a look! It's in a book! Reading Rainbow.
Here you go. Stone Soup, the magazine, has been publishing stories, poems and drawings of young people for decades. So Stone Soup, though not actually a book website, is my choice for this week's Kids Book Website. Sample the writings of children and teens. This magazine never publishes the work of grown-ups. NEVER! Stone Soup is Peter Pan's favorite reading material, I've been led to believe. I'm sure that's true.
Make sure you check out the video on the magazine's home page. Very cool.
Back to BoB: Tomorrow, Life: an Exploded Diagram goes up against Wonderstruck. My first lackluster prediction is that Wonderstruck will head to the next round. But Chris Lynch is the judge and that changes things. Must....think... ... ... I am going to predict Wonderstruck. Just because I feel I should predict something. Is that lackluster enough for you? Both good books. Both worthy opponents. Just not A Monster Calls.
That was this week’s Most Alerted Video. I had a couple folks send it my way and I admit that you simply could not come up with a better beginning to a Video Sunday. Aside from the fact that Fallon does one heckuva Jim Morrison, I love the choices of books he sings halfway through. Hopefully LeVar is aware of this (how could he not be?). Thanks to Jarrett Krosoczka, Anna Hebner, and Lindsey Lane and others for the link!
Book trailer time! As some of you might be aware the newest Diary of a Wimpy Kid came out this week. I’d have read it except that I was too busy downing a very different Abrams book by the name of My Friend Dahmer (do NOT get the two mixed up!). This book trailer is for the Kinney title but there’s something odd about it. I think I’m becoming a major book trailer snob. For as big a book as the latest Wimpy Kid is, why did they opt for GarageBand background music? Now hand me my caviar and don’t chintz on the 1978 Montrachet, my good man.
And now another book trailer. This one comes from James Proimos and is for 12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn. The bt as short film. I have seen it done before (the MT Anderson video here, for example) but it’s rare to see it so . . . . artistic, I guess.
Author Katie Davis alerted me to this next video. As she says, it’s “a book charity that is really different and whom I’m interviewing for next week’s podcast. It’s called Milk and Bookies and it’s got the most gorgeous web site ever, and GREAT video which you should totes use for Video Sunday (IMHO!) Here is the URL, and the video is right on the home page.”
So I checked it out and lo and behold . . . she’s right! This thing is bloody gorgeous.
That’s all I had this week, folks. More soon, you betcha. In the meantime, enjoy this little short film. I found it via Dan Santat. Nice.
4 Comments on Video Sunday: But you don’t have to take my word for it (ba-dum-bum!), last added: 11/22/2011
Wow! A fabulous Video Sunday! Laughs, thrills, chills and excitement. I was searching my brain pan for why James Proimos’s name was ringing such a bell…and then it came to me: Todd’s TV! Really, this was a wonderfully varied and delightful set of videos today. Thank you! Well done/gathered/posted!
Elizabeth Bird said, on 11/20/2011 2:31:00 PM
Ah! I should have mentioned that. Good callback!
Jules said, on 11/20/2011 6:54:00 PM
I read somewhere that LeVar saw Fallon’s video and loved it and tweeted it. Or something like that. Could have dreamt it, could have been a lousy source, but I know I read *some*thing like that in the hypo-hyper world of Facebook. (Not a reliable thing, but for what it’s worth…)
Anne Marie said, on 11/22/2011 12:31:00 PM
It’s true! Levar Burton-approved.
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LeVar Burton takes Reading Rainbow into the 21st Century (by launching RRKidz. Just like its previous iteration, RRKidz is all about reading, but the twist is that it’s an app for iPad and Android featuring a curated collection of... Read the rest of this post
Twihards rejoice! The full trailer for ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1′ is finally here (and by the looks of it, it may be the most intense of the movies yet. Needless to say, we know where millions of teen girls will be on... Read the rest of this post
After posting a video from the episode of Community where Troy meets his hero LeVar Burton I got a penchant for a little Reading Rainbow. The universe, it appears, was happy to oblige. First off you have a woman that I would love to meet one day. If the name Twila Liggett fails to ring any bells, know only that amongst her many accomplishments she was the founder and executive producer of Reading Rainbow back in the day. In the article Just Read Anything! she writes a message to parents and teachers that’s pretty self-explanatory. If you can’t think of Reading Rainbow without the aforementioned LeVar, however, the same website Happy Reading has a lovely interview with the man. I’d love to meet LeVar myself, but I think my reaction would be a shade too similar to Troy’s.
Mmm. Critical reviews. They’re important. I don’t do as many of them these days as I used to, but I try to work in at least a couple per year. Some bloggers don’t do them at all, and while I understand that I think it’s important to have a critical dialogue in the children’s literary blogosphere. That nice Justine Larbalestier author recently wrote a post called I Love Bad Reviews that covers this. She’s a gutsy gal, that one. I hope she writes a middle grade book one of these days (How to Ditch Your Fairy came close but wasn’t quite there). And if the research author Elizabeth Fama found in the Sept/Oct 2010 issue of Marketing Science is true, then “negative reviews of books of relatively unknown authors raised sales 45%.” So there you go, oh first time authors. It’s win-win!
Along similar lines is this other snarky link. Personally I’ve nothing against Cassandra Clare. She was a lovely person that I got to meet at a Simon & Schuster preview once. Of course, I’ve never read a one of her books (she’s a YA writer) but bookshelves of doom gave a positive review to her City of Bones and I trust Leila. That said, I enjoyed Part One of the podcast Read It and Weep’s series on that same book (Part Two isn’t out as of this posting). Read It and Weep is a couple dudes and their guest host talking about books and various pop culture icons they dislike. I wouldn’t recommend the podcast for fans of the series, but if you’re curious about the book it can be amusing. Particularly since they will mention things they enjoyed, like the cat-related paging system. I think I’ll have to seek out their thoughts on Percy Jackson soon. Not Twilight, though. It’s been done.
Everyone and their mother emailed me the amazing Aaron Renier
I love photos of Karl Lagerfeld’s bookshelves. I hear he even owns the bookstore next door to where he lives!
Animated Books said, on 3/8/2011 9:39:00 PM
[...] Hat tip to Bookshelf Porn, which I found via Betsy Bird’s Fuse #8. [...]
Jarrett J. Krosoczka said, on 3/9/2011 1:44:00 PM
Betsy,
You know LaVar is making a special appearance at the Children’s Choice Book Awards, right? I’m currenly working on all of my introductions for the evening… Yeah. I KNOW!
=)
JJK
Shelley Moore Thomas said, on 3/9/2011 5:50:00 PM
I hadn’t seen the Matilda strip. Loved it!
The first song my daughter ever sung was the theme to Reading Rainbow!
“Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high…….”
I really miss it.
Shelley
Elizabeth Bird said, on 3/9/2011 6:00:00 PM
Woah, Jarrett!! I knew you were hosting but I had no IDEA that he’d be there. Aw, man. Slip me a $300 ticket, wontcha? Failing that I’ll just do a nice little write-up on it for Monday.
When I first started to work for New York Public Library I was placed at an amazing near 150-year-old part of the system called the Jefferson Market Branch in Greenwich Village. My husband once shot a fantastic short film there in the clocktower, and I believe a Law & Order episode took place there once involving a man and a sword. This little PSA is also set there and takes advantage not only of the architecture (gorgeous, right?) but also my former boss Frank who takes great glee in his role as Library Ghoul. Love you, Frank!
I’m not entirely certain the universe is big enough for me to imagine Weird Al and Shel Silverstein having a conversation with one another. But huge thanks to Mr. Schu for this amazing piece of info.
I would have watched Uncle Shelby’s Corner. Absolutely, you bet!
Recently I was asked to blurb a new edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant. Now normally I’d think twice about that kind of request because, let’s face it, Oscar Wilde was one weird children’s author. We sometimes think of Hans Christian Andersen as an odd duck (Red Shoes, anyone?) but I doubt he ever created much of anything to compare to The Happy Prince and its ilk. The Selfish Giant has always been way too didactic for my tastes (too much of an allegory) but there is a way to make it palatable. First off, you give the book great art. Then, if possible, you hire an orchestra and turn the book into a kind of Peter and the Wolf type gig. Here’s a taste.
Cool, eh?
I wouldn’t call this next video of a jazzed up version of The Three Bears any real threat to Hey There, Little Red Riding Hood, but it’s still interesting.
This week I was pleased to be asked to come up with a list of great Black History Month titles for our local channel NY1’s coverage of what to read with your kids. Fellow librarian Robyn Mutnick did a top notch job of presenting the books themselves.
I should note that there was one change made to the books I recommended
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Due to low ratings and lack of funds, PBS's "Reading Rainbow" is no longer being broadcast.That's too bad. I have fond memories of watching the show with my daughter. They featured some terrific books, like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and, Everett Anderson's Goodbye. (Neither one is by a Native writer or features any Native content. They're just two books I like.)
Native-authored books (that I recommend) that were on the show include:
Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp
The Goat in the Rug, by Charles L. Blood, illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker
In looking over the books they've featured over the years, I am puzzled that none of Joseph Bruchac's books are on the list.That was a tremendous oversight by the show's producers, and, a loss to its viewers who could have found some terrific books by him.
Among the Reading Rainbow books I do NOT recommend are:
Dancing with the Indians, by Angela Shelf Medearis, illustrated by Samuel Byrd - Depiction of a ribbon dance is wrong, playing drum with hands is wrong, Native dancers are just plain scary...
Knots on a Counting Rope, by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Ted Rand. Among other problems, Rand depicts Native dancers watching a horse race in their traditional clothing, suggesting it is worn everyday. In reality, the men would be wearing jeans, shirts, and boots, just like the other spectators.
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back, by Penny Pollock. She (like "Jamake Highwater" did in Anpao) collapses the diversity within the hundreds of Native tribes into a single "Native American" portrayal.
There are a handful of others I could have listed here as 'not recommended' but those three jumped out at me. One of Paul Goble's books is on it, but that is not ok.... Looking over the list on their site, it just seems to me that their 'rainbow' did not have much space on it for Native authors.
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Reading Rainbow built the love of reading. It was the show I watched daily in graduate school as I learned about children's books. I also stole many of LeVar Burton ideas for making books come alive. I had a little Reading Rainbow notebook(I still have it).
The FUN needs to be put back in reading and learning! Send a email to PBS to keep this show on the air.
Even if you can't remember a specific Reading Rainbow episode, chances are, the theme song is still lodged somewhere in your head: Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high,Take a look, it's in a book — Reading Rainbow ... Remember now? Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. The show, which started in 1983, was hosted by actor LeVar Burton. (If you don't know Burton from Reading Rainbow, he's also famous for his role as Kunta Kinte in Roots, or as the chrome-visored Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Each episode of Reading Rainbow had the same basic elements: There was a featured children's book that inspired an adventure with Burton. Then, at the end of every show, kids gave their own book reviews, always prefaced by Burton's trademark line: "But you don't have to take my word for it ..." "The series resonates with so many people," says John Grant, who is in charge of content at WNED Buffalo, Reading Rainbow's home station.
Enlarge GPN/Nebraska ETV Network and WNED Buffalo. "I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being," Burton said in a 2003 interview. "It's just such an integral part of the human experience — that connection with the written word." GPN/Nebraska ETV Network and WNED Buffalo. "I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being," Burton said in a 2003 interview. "It's just such an integral part of the human experience — that connection with the written word." The show's run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show's broadcast rights. Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the philosophy of educational television programming. The change started with the Department of Education under the Bush administration, he explains, which wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling. Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do. "Reading Rainbow taught kids why to read," Grant says. "You know, the love of reading — [the show] encouraged kids to pick up a book and to read." Linda Simensky, vice president for children's programming at PBS, says that when Reading Rainbow was developed in the early 1980s, it was an era when the question was: "How do we get kids to read books?" Since then, she explains, research has shown that teaching the mechanics of reading should be the network's priority. "We've been able to identify the earliest steps that we need to take," Simensky says. "Now we know what we need to do first. Even just from five years ago, I think we all know so much more about how to use television to teach." Research has directed programming toward phonics and reading fundamentals as the front line of the literacy fight. Reading Rainbow occupied a more luxurious space — the show operated on the assumption that kids already had basic reading skills and instead focused on fostering a love of books. Simensky calls Reading Rainbow's 26-year run miraculous — and says that its end is bittersweet. Reading Rainbow's impending absence leaves many open questions about today's literacy challenges, and what television's role should be in addressing them.
"But" — as Burton would have told his young readers — "you don't have to take my word for it."
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I have the pleasure of being one of two judges for the kindergarten entries for the local Reading Rainbow contest sponsored by KEET-TV. I so look forward to judging because I love to see what these young minds are thinking. I also delight in their artwork, how they interpret shapes and mix the wildest colors together. It's so honest.
So yesterday, I sat out on my deck, entries spread before me, and read the stories. At this age there's not a whole lot of character development, or even conflict. But there is imagination. I got a kick out of the clown who carried around blue cotton candy and offered to share it with the bears at the zoo. I also loved the insect amusement park with its grasshopper merry-go-round. There was even a story that made me think it had potential as a real book, about a Mexican family who was divided - part lived in Mexico to tend to the sheep, and the others lived up here for work.
Judge number two will read the stories next, and then we'll discuss our top choices, so I don't know who won yet. Good luck, future writers and illustrators!
Today we look at the library. Why? Because there are roughly a million videos on YouTube involving libraries and getting people into them. The best way to do so is to get the children while they're young. Now when I saw this video on Becky's Book Reviews, the memories just starting flooding back. I remember this routine like it was yesterday. What else is residing in my brain that I don't know about?
And correct me if I am wrong, but didn't this contemporary commercial totally rip-off Sesame Street?
Beautiful. Not that I wasn't equally swayed as a child by Reading Rainbow.
Speaking of Reading Rainbow, this one amuses me horribly. First of all, Levar seems to be participating in some kind of Rex Harrisonish song styling. Then there's the fact that the sign says "FREE LIBRARY" which is a term I haven't seen in my lifetime. I'll have to ask my grandmother about it. And the first librarian in this video? Fab.
Gotta get me some hot pink spandex shirts and purple skirts to wear. I adore that she still wears a bun. Otherwise how do you know what her profession is? Then the whole video becomes Pippin. I'd mind, but I've a soft spot for Pippinish behavior. Y'know, they still rerun old Reading Rainbows on PBS these days. I love the thought of some kid catching this on the telly, then asking their parent what a record is. My library still has them. Does yours?
I remember all of these. But this one from The Electric Company? Not so much.
If you pause it quickly enough you'll see that the "I" at the end appears over a book titled, "The Truth About Weight Control". Odd. Speaking of which...
Cell-u-leet? 1987 was a glorious year.
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The only place I've ever seen the phrase "free library" is in Urbana, IL, when I went to college at the University of Illinois. The Urbana Free Library is the public library there. It was just like any public library--better collection than any I'd seen up to that point. I'm not sure why they used that terminology, but it appears to have had some precedence somewhere.
Liz B said, on 4/15/2007 7:09:00 AM
The Free Library of Philadelphia.
As opposed to a library where you paid to belong via subscription or shares. The library Ben Franklin started was a subscription library.
Monica Edinger said, on 4/15/2007 7:22:00 AM
Shouldn't that be something like "Apprendre La Bibliotheque" or "Etudier La Bibliotheque"?
fusenumber8 said, on 4/15/2007 9:08:00 AM
Undoubtedly. In that my French is exceedingly rusty despite the 5-6 years I studied it. I'm just pleased as punch that I managed to spell "bibliotheque" correctly.
Both Free Library examples are great, but my point was that seeing a newish sign sporting an, admit it, old-fashioned phrase is a bit odd.
I'm really guessing that the library in the Reading Rainbow clip was a Philadelphia or Philly area library as liz b suggested. All the libraries in Philadelphia are referred to in signage and elsewhere as "Free Libraries," regardless of whether they were built in the 1870's or 1970's. It struck me as odd, too, when I moved here 6 years ago, but I think it's charming nonetheless.
fusenumber8 said, on 4/15/2007 11:47:00 AM
Huh! Well I'll be hornswaggled. You learn something new every day. Just goes to show the depth of the Philly-related gaps in my brain.
Anonymous said, on 4/15/2007 3:52:00 PM
Not to dwell on this, but there are "Free Libraries" all around Massachusetts, especially surrounding Boston - new or old.
I loved every video today... especially the Reading Rainbow insane dance in the stacks.
Carl in Charlotte said, on 4/16/2007 9:02:00 AM
Hey Fuse #8,
I loved the videos! I'm glad someone remembers The Electric Company. Does anyone recall that Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman were on that show. (I believe MF was a character named "Easy Reader"). As for kids asking their parents what a "record" is, I had a little tyke at one of our storytimes who knew exactly what a record is for. Some of us baby boomers will occasionally pull out an old vinyl album to play at our our storytimes. Well, once I got one and pulled it out of the cover when the little fellow asked me, "What are you going to do with that? Are you going to go "wicki, wicki, wicki?" Like I was some DJ at a club! Just call me Grandmaster C!
SarahBela in NYC said, on 4/16/2007 9:26:00 AM
These clips were so much fun, thank you for sharing.
there's a ton of libraries in their name, which I didn't get when I first heard their name:
Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore Public Library)is another one.
Once I started Library School, i always thought it related back to the Ben Franklin subscription library...
Brooke said, on 4/16/2007 6:06:00 PM
Oh. My. Goodness.
The excercize video is AWESOME.
Whenever I see a COM CAT in the library (and yes, they do still exist) I'm going to have a devil of a time resisting singing "You Spin Me Round."
As for the phrase "Free Library" . . .there are a few libraries that are titled "Free" in the Pittsburgh area, but not at the one where I work -- the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Instead, the words "Free to the People" are inscribed in the stonework above the front doors. It's something that gives me a good ol' shot of cheesy pride whenever I walk in.
Awww. This is adorable. YouTube has put up all these booktalks done by kids for books they particularly enjoy. Book Moot has the scoop, plus four talks of interest. My sole problem with this is that anytime a kid finishes I keep expecting the three note "Ba-dum-bum!" that would play after the kid booktalks on Reading Rainbow.
Just have to second that shout-out for Levar Burton -- as a child whose TV show allowance was limited to Reading Rainbow, Square One, and Star Trek: The Next Generation for most of my formative years, I grew up thinking that Levar Burton, as a star in TWO shows, had to be the coolest actor alive. Plus he could see heat radiation and teach socially inept people like Data and me how to make jokes. Way cool. :-)
CB
fusenumber8 said, on 3/1/2007 3:05:00 PM
Yup. Of course now when I'm home during the day and flipping channels, if I happen to stop on Reading Rainbow my husband will scream, "HE CAN SEE! IT'S A MIRACLE!"
I'm not one for panel series. Seems to me they tend to overprice themselves and I just end up talking with the participants at ALA meetings anyway half the time. But this one... this one is different. This one I have an active interest in.
This panel, the second in a series organized by New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), will explore the evolution of children's media - from wholesome to edgy - and look at what's in store in the future. Participants will ask some tough questions: What happens when the goal posts of taste, wholesomeness and educational value are moved? What are the differences between media created for children and media created for teens and adults? What factor does money play in determining what is suitable entertainment for children?
People of my generation tend to slip into Cranky Old Codger Mode when the subject of children's television programming comes up. "You whippersnappers don't know what it was like. Why in MY day we had Reading Rainbow, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, GOOD Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and a bunch of shows I can't even REMEMBER. You kids today with your crummy corporate shows. Do they even teach sign language on Sesame Street anymore? Huh? Huh? What about kids with Down's Syndrome? How many of those do you get on the show these days?"
I could go on. You see why this panel appeals to me.
The real highlight? I was just discussing with the Kidlit Drink Night attendees that Reading Rainbow may still exist. Now I see that Twila C. Liggett, founder of the show, will be on the panel. I'll ask her.
The whopping great price to attend? $10 if you're a nonmember. I'm there. Let me know if you'll be showing up as well.
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Aw I watched Reading Rainbow all the time. Sorry it's off the air.