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Smartphone with Audible account and credit card info + sweet sticky fingerprints from granddaughter = my dog racking up big bucks in download charges a definite possibility!

Nominate your choice for a visit from the Google Trike! Stonehenge & Warwick Castle have been picked in the UK. Here’s how to add your USA choice (from the Google Blog):
At www.google.com/trike, you can suggest interesting and unique spots in six categories:
* Parks & Trails
* University Campuses
* Pedestrian Malls (e.g., outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks)
* Theme [...]

Check out this video of  notes dancing to Giant Steps, the jazz classic. Perfect to supplement a classroom listen-aloud discussion of the awesome audiobook John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Chris Raschka’s colorful introduction to jazz saxophone master Coltrane.

Thanks to Open Culture for the link!

Awesome, hilarious poetry performance for all school librarians – and those who support student access to libraries! Thanks to slam poet Taylor Mali of Page Meets Stage, for this great Friday morning smile. And if Mali’s voice sounds familiar, he is the terrific narrator of non-fiction audiobooks Close to Shore, Escape! The Story of the [...]

Amazing video: Rube Goldberg to the max – from Britan’s Baynham & Tyres

I must admit to trepidation about the authorized new Winnie-the-Pooh book Return to the Hundred Acre Woods by David Debenedicts. But the video of Jim Dale in the recording studio reading the book’s Exposition is calming the rumbly in my tumbly a bit.  Click here to find out more about the book from the Penguin Group website.

Paul Gagne sent me this note today:  ”A number of months ago David Small had asked Gary McGivney, the director who animated David’s artwork for the Weston Woods productions of So You Want to be President? and My Senator and Me, to create a series of short videos to promote his new book, Stitches. They’ve just been [...]

Hilarious look behind-the-mic of a 10-second voice-over recording session: Ahaarrrr! from Steve Skinner via Proxima UK (where the title is spelled two ways)
Click this link for a marvelous look at the 8 minute film written by & starring Jonathan Kydd and directed by Steven Skinner: http://www.promax-uk.org/result/promaxvideo2col/440.jsp?v=81&n=10023
Thanks to Audiobook DJ for the link!

Now there’s a title that will catch the attention of Shakespeareans and slackers alike – and a just $5.95 special deal on iTunes! Jess Winfield, cofounder of the comedy troupe Reduced Shakespeare Company, talks about his debut novel My Name is Will and the process of recording of the audiobook in this video. I love [...]

HP animates using reams of paper & time-lapse photography in this fun video. Why am I suddenly reminded to make sure the recycling bins are back in place next to the printer & copy machine as I get my middle school library set for the first day of school ?