Give the Gift: Bond with Your Baby (Video)

One-on-one book sharing time with baby is a miracle.

Be Silly with Your Baby! (Video)

Digital Pop Up Book No. 3 (Video)

The last augmented reality feature in Tony DiTerlizzi's Search for Wondla.

Once Wondla Vision started, I pointed the webcam at the computer screen.  This creates a mirrored effect of the map of Orbona, particularly noticeable are the doubles of the clouds.

Digital Pop Up Book No. 2 (Video)

Page 277 of Tony DiTerlizzi's Search for Wondla in augmented reality. 
I tried to capture the whole computer set up this time and let myself be in the background.

Digital Pop-Up Book No. 1 (Video)

Page 123 of Tony DiTerlizzi's Search for Wondla in augmented reality. 

I'm in WondLa indeed ...

A Batty Great Time with Brian Lies (Video)

At the Mazza Museum Summer Institute, I was able to share a dinner table with this approachable author/illustrator.  Here's a video clip from his presentation wherein he shared personal, batty stories.

Patricia Polacco, the Ultimate Storyteller (Video)

Patricia Polacco is an illustrator, writer, and storyteller who captivated the Mazza 2010 Summer Institute audience with personal, historical vignettes.  She touched the audience to tears with her themes of loving relationships, abounding beauty, learning and educational challenges, and heroism.

Below is Ms. Polacco sharing her family's four (or more?) generational "keeping quilt."

Image from Amazon.  Notice the Sydney Taylor Book Award in the upper right hand corner.

Calef Brown the Artist (Videos)

 

Calef sketches in my autograph notebook!

Calef told Mazza Summer Institute participants the story of how a monkey mugged his mango and inspired this illustration. He has traveled to India and is inspired by the culture's color schemes:

Calef Brown the Poet (Videos)

During the Mazza Summer Institute, Brown referred to the musicality of words as his muse.  He makes a case for reading poetry out loud.  Sylvia Vardell anyone?

 

I first performed "Combo Tango" in graduate school as an audience participation, movement rhyme.  I've been incorporating it into my programs ever since.

Kamishibai, Japanese Paper Theater (Video)

Hazuki Kataoka shares the folktale Momotaro the Peach Boy at the American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference using the "Japanese kamishibai format." "Kami" means "paper," and "shibai" means "theater."

 

(Yes, I took this video.)

Notes for creating your own kamishibai taken from Kamishibai Story Theater: The Art of Picture Telling by Dianne de las Casas:

• first card’s text goes on back of last card
• second card’s text goes on back of first card
• use 11x15 or 14x22 paper

Storyteller and REFORMA President (Video)

Cuban native Lucia M. Gonzalez shares her noche (night) story, complete with cucullos. After introducing herself this way, she retold Bossy Gallito.  Gonzalez opened for brain scientist Patricia Kuhl, hence Gonzalez's hint at phonological awareness (having the audience repeat the sounds in words).

(Yes, I took this video.)

Mo Accepts the Andy at ALA (Video)

Mo Willems at the American Library Association Annual Conference 2010. This is the introduction to his acceptance speech for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. (Yes, I took this video.)