Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

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 ?

Listen to your next book! <Groan> But this video is worth that horrid intro
Today’s video break: Outside the box from Joseph Pelling.

Thanks to LibraryBytes for the link!

Check in next Wednesday for a new “Inside the Audiobook Studio.” I’m taking the day off to celebrate my birthday. Perhaps I’ll get this awesome new iPhone announced in the Onion – or maybe the cool laptop below. I do love shiny gadgets…

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Watch this video on recording World War Z & The Zombie Survival Handbook as audiobooks. Interestingly, Brooks praises the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic’s audiobooks, featured in this Comic-Con post with Stan Lee, for helping him make it through school as a student with reading difficulties. World War Z is one of my personal [...]

In honor of Comic-Con, watch superhero legend Lee record his Feedback comic book for Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic, the nation’s educational library serving people with print disabilities.

Audio, video, lesson plans & more available for free at Teaching Books.net. Here’s more from TeachingBook’s founder, Nick Glass:
A few weeks ago I posted a request for a few hard-to-find cover images of books that were recognized by the Coretta Scott King Book Award. Needless to say, ALSC colleagues came through — generously scanning and [...]