Storytime was part of this year's White House Easter Egg Roll festivities. Here's a 5 minute video of President Barack Obama reading Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are" on the South Lawn of the White House.The first lady and children followed by reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond.C-Span has more video here.Event doubles as a tremendous plug for the upcoming film adaptation of "Where The Wild Things Are"Here's the trailer for that:Thanks to the LibraryThing blog for the lead
How It Works
click image to enlargeThough it looks like a New York City subway map it is actually a visual rendering of the current trends in technology and publishing put together by the folks at the Spanish blog Soybits. If you look at where it begins in the upper left hand corner you'll see that it all starts with Jeff Bezos.Then there is this video that hit airwaves earlier this week from the the digital marketing team at Macmillan. It has received tons of viral attention and seems to be popping up everywhere in the book blogosphere. It is called "From the...
The Russian Winnie-the-Pooh: Vinni Puh
I kind of love these Russian animated versions of Winnie-the-Pooh I recently stumbled across. If you know the stories as well as I do (I think my daughter and I have read each of the book stories several dozens times over the last six years), the fact that these are in Russian won't matter much. There's an odd charm to them: such beloved and well-known characters (previously so perfectly captured by E.H. Shepard) filtered through the character of another country. Here's "Winnie-The-Pooh and the Honey Tree":Also: Part II, Part III, and Part IV.
Ray Bradbury on Bookstores, Book Reviews and Love
"I raised myself in used bookstores. I went in looking for myself and I found me on every shelf."- Ray Bradbury in conversation with Steve WassermanTruthdig.com is airing a great conversation between Steve Wasserman, the former editor of the now defunct Los Angeles Times Book Review and now Literary Editor of Truthdig, and Ray Bradbury.The conversation is broken into three video segments; Bookstores, Book Reviews and Love and all are worth a look.Here is the video of the first part- Bookstores:The other 2 segments and a complete transcript of the conversation are available here.
Poppets on the Bookshelf
Here is a 4 minute journey featuring a bunch of poppets checking out a bookshelf.It is quite a trip. On how many bookshelves can one go from a book on Duran Duran to the works of Neil Gaiman without missing a beat?Poppets on a Book Tour was directed by Alia and KirkpatrickThanks to Omnivoracious for the lead