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When the Whistle Blows - Book Trailer/Author Video with Fran Cannon Slayton

2009-04-12T22:09:03.325Z

Midnight rituals. Secret initiations. A father who belongs to a secret society. In WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS (Philomel Books/Penguin, June 2009), Jimmy Cannon navigates the mysteries – and changes – that steam through his 1940’s railroad town as he comes toe-to-toe with his stubborn father and his own uncertain future.

Join author Fran Cannon Slayton in a video interview that includes pictures of steam and diesel engines, a discussion of dieselization and economic changes resulting from technological changes, and other background information about When the Whistle Blows.

Excerpts of reviews by authors Richard Peck and Ellen Hopkins are included, along with other reviews by School Library Journal's Diane Chen and Elizabeth Bird.

Rock Stars of Reading part 3: Lane Smith cont’d

2009-04-05T17:45:44.261Z

Author/Illustrator Lane Smith (on JOMB) walks us through his thought process and style decisions for two books he’s working on that will be published in 2009 — Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) with Florence Parry Heide due out September 22, 2009; and The Big Elephant in the Room due out July 7, 2009. He also demonstrates how he takes original sketches, imports them into Photoshop and turns them into digital, production-ready artwork.

Rock Stars of Reading video series Teaser

2009-03-26T23:52:49.841Z

Finally!!! Mark has produced more than half of the videos from our six-day holiday to Connecticut and North Hampton — our November 2008 Rock Stars of Reading road trip. This means we’ll begin publishing the video series, one video at-a-time, beginning on March 31; filling up the “off-days” in the Just One More Book!! publishing cycle until all of the videos are available.

To prove this is really happening, here is a promotional video for the series. It’s an extract from Part 1 and features some of our car travel as well as photographs and video clips from the entire trip, all cut to the amazing song Animus Girl by savium. Look for the faces of Richard Michelson, Paul O. Zelinsky, Jane Yolen, Jeanne Birdsall, Mo Willems, Jane Dyer, Jarrett Krosoczka, Diane de Groat, Lane Smith, Corinne Dumas, Jeff Mack and MANY MORE!

With the exception of this promotional video, we will not be embedding the videos into the Just One More Book!! RSS feed. You’ll have to come here to watch them. Each video will be about 15 minutes long.

JustOneMoreBook.com KidLit RoadTrip Teaser Video

2009-01-19T19:14:24.081Z

We’re hard at work editing 13 hours of video, 25 hours of audio and over 2,000 pictures into a series of short documentaries about our 6-day children’s book roadtrip. To reward your patience, we’ve created this quick teaser of our visit with Lane Smith and Molly Leach.

A Bear In War

2009-01-10T13:48:22.604Z

It’s November 8, 2008, three days before the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day, the end of World War I. A crowd has gathered in a big hall in the Canadian War Museum. Among the historic military machines on exhibit is a small glass display case, one foot by one foot, set atop a narrow pedestal. In the display case is “Teddy”, a child’s stuffed toy.

The crowd is here to celebrate the launch of the book A Bear in War, written by Stephanie Innes and Harry Endrulat and illustrated by Brian Deines. In the book, “Teddy”, that stuffed toy on display in the museum, tells the true story of a family affected by World War I; Lt. Lawrence Browning Rogers, his wife Janet May Weaver Rogers and their two children Aileen and Howard.

MUSIC: Poor James from the CD Tractor Parts: Further Adventures in Strang by Zubot and Dawson.

Related links

* A detailed series on the workflow to create this episode
* Remembrance Day Tribute podcast

As an experiment, we’ve created a video/slideshow version of this edition of Just One More Book!! The video can be viewed on our website; it is not included in our RSS subscription feed. The audio version of the program is available, as usual, at the bottom of this post. We’d appreciate your feedback.