Oyez, oyez, oyez! Congrats again to the ALA Youth Media Award Winners! (Ugh, there’s got to be a better way to refer to these awards . . . ) Here are a collection of videos to salute you!
First off, I found fabulous montage based on Peter Sis’s The Wall. It intersperses images from the book with Polish newsreel footage from the ’50s and ’60s. Plus, it has a nice beat. Very helpful if you’re thinking about teaching a unit based on the book:
Next up: Expanded Books’ lovely piece on The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This is what the “Today Show” SHOULD have done.
One of the most puzzling books of 2007, in my opinion, was Jacqueline Woodson’s Feathers. Yeah, I liked it, and I’m happy it got a Newbery Honor, but you gotta admit: the book is darn hard to describe, and I’ll have a difficult time booktalking it. Or, I could simply let everyone watch this video (posted online by Woodson herself) and let technology do the work for me. It’s pretty:
Lastly, I was able to fish up this brief lil’ clip from a stage production of Bud Not Buddy. Put together by the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, it looks pretty stylish and fun. Best of all, it’s currently on stage, so all of y’all in the Midwest better get hoppin’:
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