A few weeks ago I posted the book trailer for Lane Smith’s It’s a Book. I guess they’ve been around for a while, but book trailers are pretty new to me. They are, as you might imagine, trailers put out by publishers to get people interested in soon-to-be-published books, in much the same way that …
Category Archives: Books on the Web
Eclipse, but Better
Okay, so I didn’t read Stephanie Meyers’s Twilight books. Pretty much nothing about them appeals to me. Not even a little bit. BUT. This version of Eclipse, done with action figures on a kitchen counter by Jen Lancaster over at Jennsylvania, is AWESOME. Especially the puns. And now I feel all caught up.
“It’s a Book” Trailer
I quite enjoyed this video, shown to me by a coworker. It’s a trailer for a new book from Macmillan: It’s a Book by Lane Smith. Enjoy!
Turnoff Week 2009
Remember how I just posted about Ellen Currey-Wilson’s The Big Turnoff, about raising a TV-free kid? Guess what? next week is Turnoff Week! Check out the full article here. I especially like the quote from second grader Drew Henderson at the very end…
Article: Abandon a Bad Book?
It’s like I always say…life is too short to read bad books!