Showing posts with label book trailers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book trailers. Show all posts

March 03, 2013

CLA Book of the Year for Children Awards: A History in Book Trailers


Since 1947, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) has awarded the Book of the Year for Children Award (BOYCA) to an outstanding book, published in Canada in the previous year, which appeals to children up to and including age 12. (A complete list of award winners by year is available at the CLA website here.)

On Friday, March 1, 2013, the short lists of books nominated for each of the CLA's book awards, including the Book of the Year for Children Award, were announced and I've posted them on the CanLit for LittleCanadians: Awards site. 

Until the winners are announced in mid-April, I'd like to encourage readers of youngCanLit to look back at some of the most recent winners of BOYCA to refresh their reading with some classics. And to that end, I would like present an impressive collection of book trailers of these recent BOYCA winners, as created by the graduate students at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) for Professor Judith Saltman's Library Services to Children class at the University of British Columbia. Just as these past winners exemplify a full range of genres and themes, so too do these creative book trailers.  Except for the first BOYCA winner, I can only provide links to their YouTube book trailers.  Please explore and enjoy!


1998 Winner
Silverwing
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins
222 pp.
Ages 8-12
1997 
Book Trailer by Kaitlyn Sparks and Ashley Pettet
Uploaded by Kaitlyn1909 on November 22, 2012 to YouTube
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2002 Winner
Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Guelph, Ontario, 1897
by Jean Little
Scholastic Canada
221 pp.
Ages 10-13
2001

 
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZoAcn0LtE
Book Trailer by Monica Spreitzer and Larissa Image
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2005 Winner
Last Chance Bay
by Anne Laurel Carter
Penguin Canada
169 pp.
Ages 10-13
2004 



 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILp-IGApYfg
Book Trailer by Layla Naquin and Julia McKnight
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2006 Winner
The Crazy Man
by Pamela Porter
Groundwood Books
214 pp.
Ages 8-12
2005 



www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm2UQS-_CVg
Book Trailer by Kate Longley and David Waddell
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2007 Winner
Johnny Kellock Died Today
by Hadley Dyer
HarperCollins
152 pp.
Ages 9-12
2006 




Book Trailer by Sabrina Wong and Helen Brown
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2008 Winner
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Scholastic Canada
288 pp.
Ages 9-12
2007


  
 Book Trailer by Kayla Cormier and Chelsea DiFrancesco
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2009 Winner
The Shepherd's Granddaughter
by Anne Laurel Carter
Groundwood Books
222 pp.
Ages 11+
2008 




Book Trailer by Lindsey Krabbenhoft and Michal Sitbon
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2010 Winner
Watching Jimmy
by Nancy Hartry
Tundra Books
144 pp.
Ages 10-14
2009 




Book Trailer
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2011 Winner
Half Brother
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada
377 pp.
Ages 12+
2010 




Book Trailer by Laura Hebert and Megan Melashewsky
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2012 Winner
The Whole Truth
by Kit Pearson
HarperCollins Canada
261 pp.
Ages 9+
2011




Book Trailer by Elizabeth Bell and Mariya Tokhtarova
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Many thanks 
to Professor Judith Saltman and her students for allowing me to share these, and 
to Kay Weisman and Ellen Wu of CLASC for liaising with them.
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November 18, 2012

Waiting for reviews? Here's why

Here's where I'm at:

My Book of Angel by Martine Leavitt from Groundwood Books.
Amazing novel in verse.  Edgy, sad, based on true event.






 
Yesterday by C. K. Kelly Martin from Doubleday Canada.
Twisted manipulation of memories. Romance.

Rebel Heart by Moira Young from Doubleday Canada.  
Sequel to award-winning Blood Red Road. I was afraid to finish it, apprehensive where it might go but thoroughly satisfied with its ending.

Good Night, Canada by Andrea Beck from Scholastic Canada.   
Picture book travels across our country.





Those books have all been read.  The reviews just have to be written. We won't even mention the glorious books sitting in my ToBeRead pile.

But in the meanwhile, there have been book award winners and nominees about which to blog:

Then, there have been book trailers that I think look amazing, whether I've read the book or not:
  • Crush. Candy. Corpse. from Sylvia McNicoll HERE
  • Infiltration by Sean Rodman (Orca) HERE
  • Dead Run by Sean Rodman (Orca) HERE

The book reviewer's lament: Why are there only 24 hours in a day?
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July 23, 2012

Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange series

Wondrous Strange
Written by Lesley Livingston
HarperCollins
978-1-55468-273-7
327 pp.
Ages 12+
2008

Darklight
Written by Lesley Livingston
HarperCollins
978-1-55468-345-1
312 pp.
Ages 12+
2010

Reviewed from audiobook
Harper Audio
ASIN: B00309TZ04
Narrated by Lesley Livingston
6 hours, 58 minutes
2009

Tempestuous
Written by Lesley Livingston
HarperCollins
978-1–55468-455-7
361 pp.
Ages 12+
2011

Reviewed from audiobook
Harper Audio
ASIN: B004G81VZ0
Narrated by Lesley Livingston
8 hours, 39 minutes
2010
 


Lesley Livingston burst onto the YA literary scene in 2008 with her first novel, Wondrous Strange, which quickly won the accolades of readers and juries, winning the 2009 Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year Award. Set in New York City, the Wondrous Strange series is an urban fantasy with the contemporary mortal world crossing paths with the hidden Faerie worlds, often as a consequence of the popular vices of revenge, greed and power.
Kelley Winslow is a young actor enjoying her first foray into professional theatre, performing in the Avalon Players' production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream. But, a chance and memorable meeting with the attractive Sonny Flannery, a Janus Guard, defender of the infrequently-opened gates between the Otherworld and the mortal realm, and Kelley's rescue of a horse from the lake in Central Park bring the Faerie world from the fiction of Kelley's script into her reality.
While Kelley attempts to explain and rid herself of the horse that magically re-appears in the apartment she shares with the beautiful Tyff, Sonny discovers evidence of a kelpie (magic-infused horse that drowns its victims) and ultimately the secret of Kelley's heritage. Through skirmishes with all manner of mortal and Otherworldly creatures, Sonny must convince Kelley of the reality and dangers of the Faerie Realm and keep her safe, while preventing the re-awakening of the deadly Wild Hunt.
In the second book, Darklight, the two young people, so desperately in love, are now forced to live in two different worlds: Sonny, still under orders from King Auberon, must destroy any remnants of the Wild Hunt in the Otherworld, while Kelley continues to perform with the Avalon Players, this time in Romeo and Juliet. After another Janus Guard, the Fennrys Wolf, tries to save Kelley from another attack in Central Park, they tumble into the Otherworld. But Kelley and Sonny's reunion is short-lived after Bob, the boucca, requests that Kelley visit the ailing Auberon and she refuses. Sonny, dealing with the jealous images Queen Mabh has shown him of Kelley with Fennrys, cannot comprehend Kelley's refusal, and seeks out Auberon himself. Happily, Kelley and Sonny are able to re-establish their love when they work together to thwart the leprechauns and the Green Magick, while attempting to save Auberon.
Sadly, Tempestuous begins with Sonny overhearing Kelley telling Tyff that she does not love him. Knowing that Faeries cannot lie, and not knowing Kelley's intentions (to keep him safe), Sonny disappears among the Lost Fae. But the murderous actions of rogue Janus Guards bring Sonny out of seclusion to fight, as does Kelley, those who would trade loyalty for power. As Shakespeare's The Tempest, the Avalon Players' current production, seems recreated in their lives, Sonny and Kelley do all they can to save each other and those for whom they care, mortal and Fae alike.
Though I've tried to give very little away regarding the plots of each book (not wanting to allude to culminating events that are key in the subsequent books), I can tell you that each book in the Wondrous Strange series has Lesley Livingston's signature wit, honest relationships, and sophisticated plotting, all embedded in the Old English folklore and the Bard's comedies and tragedies. For a special treat, listen to an audiobook of at least one volume of this series, as nothing can compare to author-actor Lesley Livingston reading her own work. Not only can she manipulate her voice to create very distinct characters, from young modern-day Kelley, to strong and loyal Sonny (with his disarming romantic side), mischievous Bob, regal Auberon, and self-absorbed Tyff, her sense of timing in the delivery of the clever repartee is impeccable. And the narrative, whether read or heard, is rife with the magick of a wordsmith who is able to forge rich tales that are emotionally engaging (whether to cheer for Kelley and Sonny's growing love, or despise the manipulations of the Faerie kings and queens) and edge-of-your-seat riveting (with chase scenes, deadly altercations, various assaults, and surprise revelations). The series may be called Wondrous Strange but it is more akin to Uniquely Wonderful.

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BOOK TRAILERS

I've put all the book trailers, uploaded by harperteen to YouTube, for the Wondrous Strange series on one page HERE for readers' perusal.

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AUTHOR TALKS

The following three videos (Lesley Livingston - On the Fly I, II and III), while not book trailers, offer a glimpse into Lesley Livingston's choices for her setting, characters and plot in the Wondrous Strange series.
Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2009 to YouTube

Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2009 to YouTube

Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2009 to YouTube
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May 31, 2012

Book Award News moving to its Own CanLit for LittleCanadians Blog

With the onslaught of regional, national and international book awards for which our very worthy Canadian authors and illustrators have been nominated and selected, I have found that my book reviews on CanLit for LittleCanadians are getting lost, or at least overlooked.  It's hard for a title of only one or two words to be seen in a list of posts when each award-post title is multi-lined.  Of twenty-four posts logged this month on CanLit for LittleCanadians, eleven were notices about new shortlists and winners.


So, with the intention of highlighting reviews and news about great CanLit for younger readers, I will be moving all award related posts to CanLit for LittleCanadians: Awards at  http://canlitforlittlecanadiansawards.blogspot.ca/ and only posting future award news on that site.  While it will break up readership (and we know how important numbers are when trying to get recognition and subscriptions for your blog), I'm hoping that this will allow the titles and authors/illustrators to shine a little more brightly, as they well should.  Bear with me as I move older posts about awards to their new home on CanLit for LittleCanadians: Awards.



Similarly, I'll be reposting any videos, trailers, etc. onto CanLit for LittleCanadians: Book Trailers and Other Media at http://canlitforlittlecanadianstrailers.blogspot.ca/ for those who love watching this medium.
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