Video Trailer Debut: Saving Baby Doe by Danette Vigilante
Not too long ago I wrote a post called 2014 Kids of Color: Things Are Looking Up. I wasn’t kidding. The number of book jackets with kids of color on them in 2014 puts 2013, and pretty much every other...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern
For a blog that only does videos on Sundays regularly, I’m often surprised when folks offer to premiere their book trailers here. I am, however, always flattered, particularly when the trailers are as...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra by Chris Raschka
Well, I am pleased to announce today’s Book Trailer Premiere, particularly since it is unlike every other book trailer I’ve ever put up. Credit that to the subject matter, really. Chris Raschka is...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere – Zorgoochi Intergalactic Pizza: Delivery of Doom by...
Today I am pleased as punch to premiere the brand spankin’ new book trailer for Dan Yaccarino’s middle grade novel debut Zorgoochi Intergalactic Pizza: Delivery of Doom (say that five times fast – I...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: RED – A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
I’m pleased as punch to be premiering the book trailer for Michael Hall’s rather magnificent picture book RED today. The simple tale of a blue crayon labelled with a red wrapper, it’s rather subtle...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premier: Big Bear, Little Chair by Lizi Boyd
Once in a while an artist comes along who does work so beautifully that you cannot help but gawp. Particularly gawpable (a word? Tis now) is Lizi Boyd. And today, I’m pleased as punch to premiere the...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Sing and Dance in Your Polka-Dot Pants
In this day and age it is prudent of the self-sufficient blogger to warn readers when they may encounter something that will affect the rest of their day, nay, week. And so I say unto you, BEWARE! Be...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: The Tiara on the Terrace by Kristen Kittscher
So. Book trailers. I’ve seen my share. They are good. They are bad. Do they sell books? Probably some of them do, and considering how relatively cheap they are to produce it’s no wonder folks are...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Fluffy Strikes Back by Ashley Spires
My daughter is four going on five at the moment. And though she still reads her fair share of picture books, recently she has become enamored of graphic novels. Particularly those with “bad guys” in...
View ArticleTrailer Premiere: The Ugly Dumpling by Stephanie Campisi
Let play a game. I’ll write out a bit of a professional review from here at School Library Journal and you guess the book. Here goes: “A unique take on the classic tale ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ this is a...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Maybe Something Beautiful
Faithful readers will recall that I have gushed on occasion about the book MAYBE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL by F. Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell, illustrated by Rafael López. For years he’s been creating...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premier: Green Pants by Kenneth Kraegel
Video Sunday bounces back with a beautiful book trailer. But first, a little book trailer 101. When making a book trailer for your third picture book (in this particular case Mr. Kenneth Kraegel was...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Martina and Chrissie by Phil Bildner, ill. Brett Helquist
When I was a kid I didn’t know much about sports. I knew that the Tigers had won the World Series in ’84. I knew that there was a football player called “Refrigerator” and that sometimes football...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premier: How It Feels to Be a Boat by James Kwan
Let me be clear – I don’t actually post every book trailer I’m asked to premiere. If I’m lucky, I may already love a book and then find myself offered the chance to debut it after previously falling...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Our Story Begins, edited by Elissa Brent Weissman
You know, FUNNY GIRL wasn’t the only anthology out this year. I seem to recall quite a few of them gracing our bookstore and library shelves in 2017. One of them struck me as particularly keen too....
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: How to Make Friends With a Ghost by Rebecca Green
There are book trailer premieres and then there are book trailer premieres. When Tundra Books asked if I might be interested in premiering the trailer for Rebecca Green’s simply adorable How to Make...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown, ill....
Every generation gets the Frida Kahlo picture book biography it deserves. Now at some point here I’m going to write an article about why some female figures get picture books biographies while others...
View ArticleBook Trailer Premiere: Sorcery for Beginners
You know me. I’m a sucker for a clever book trailer. Book trailers in general are such a strange creation. No one knows the degree to which they influence readers to pick up their books. Yet there’s...
View ArticleBook Trailer Reveal: Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Let me tell you a little something about reveals. They slot neatly into two categories: Cover Reveals and Book Trailer Reveals. Now Cover Reveals are pretty doggone easy. You just say you’ll show the...
View ArticleBook Trailer Reveal: Waiting for Chicken Smith by David Mackintosh
The summer is dying. Every night the crickets sing. I haven’t had to turn the air conditioning on in my home for weeks and just yesterday morning my daughter begged me to consider increasing the heat...
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