Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Book + Trailer: Boo: The Life of the World's Cutest Dog, by J. H. Lee


Everyone loves Boo! His signature fluffy head and teddy bear--like persona are irresistibly adorable. With more than 1.3 million Facebook fans, Boo is an international superstar. This charming book features exclusive new photographs of Boo doing all his favorite things: lounging around, playing with friends, exploring the whole wide world, and making those famous puppy-dog eyes. To know Boo is to love him, and this book is for anyone who loves the cutest dog ever.
Available at chroniclebooks.com: http://www.chroniclebooks.com/boo
(From the YouTube description)


Saturday, January 21, 2012

Book + Trailer: The Flame Alphabet, by Ben Marcus


A short film. Video by Erin Cosgrove. Based on The Flame Alphabet, a new novel by Ben Marcus.

Become a fan of Ben on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ben.M.Marcus

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.

A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighborhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction.

With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents' sickness, unaware that in just a few years she, too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn't so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition.

The Flame Alphabet invites the question: What is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus's position in the first rank of American novelists.

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/204524/the-flame-alphabet-by-ben-marcus
(From the YouTube description)

Monday, December 26, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Book + Trailer: Taft 2012, by Jason Heller

(@jason_m_heller)
Meet William Howard Taft. He's back, and he's the biggest thing in politics.

Paid for by the Citizens to Reelect William Howard Taft

Taft 2012
www.taft2012.com
(From the YouTube description)

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Book Trailer: The Beggar's Opera, by Peggy Blair

(@peggy_blair)
The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series.
(From the YouTube description)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Book + Trailer: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, by Michael Scott

(@flamelauthor)
Watch the amazing trailer for The Alchemyst, the first action-packed thriller in his bestselling The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.

What would you do it you held the secret which could end the world?

Josh and Sophie arrive at their summer jobs expecting just another ordinary day. But their whole world is about to change....

www.thealchemyst.co.uk

www.nicholasflamel.co.uk.
(From the YouTube description)

Monday, November 28, 2011

LADY GAGA x TERRY RICHARDSON, by Lady Gaga


@ladygaga reads the foreword she wrote to open her new book LADY GAGA x TERRY RICHARDSON, available wherever books are sold on 1. Pre-order at www.ladygagaxterryrichardsonthebook.com
(From the YouTube description)

Book + Trailer: Goodnight iPad: a Parody for the next generation, by Ann Droyd


A witty parody picture book for the gadget-crazy kid in all of us.

GOODNIGHT iPAD is a gentle reminder to power down at the end of the day. It will make you laugh, and it will also help you wrest yourself away from your gadgets and put yourself -- and your machines -- to sleep. Don't worry, though. Your gadgets will be waiting for you, fully charged, in the morning.
(From the YouTube description)

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Book + Trailer: Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers

(@OliverJeffers)
Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers! Watch this fantastic video reading by Oliver himself.
(From the YouTube description)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Book + Trailer: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs

( @ransomriggs)
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs.

It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Credits:
Written and directed by Ransom Riggs
Cinematography by Charles Haine and Ransom Riggs
Boy: Zachary Haas
Grandfather: Paul Gregory
Music composed by Michael Picton
(From the YouTube description)

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Book + "Trailer": Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me, by Jenny Slate

(@jennyslate25)
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
Written by Dean Fleischer-Camp + Jenny Slate
Starring Jenny Slate as "Marcel"

***Read our new picture book MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON: THINGS ABOUT ME, out now!***
www.penguin.com/Marcel
(From the YouTube description)

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Book + Trailer + Music: Breathe Owl Breathe - The Listeners / These Train Tracks


After years of writing one-off children's stories, Micah Middaugh has created a limited edition canvas-covered book that reads from the outside covers inward, ending at the center. And in the middle, slipped between a hand cranked copper block printed sleeve, are two new Breathe Owl Breathe songs pressed onto black 70 gram 7" vinyl. A project that took close to 3 years to complete, and all within the confines of his home studio (Cavern Lantern Wonder Welding) in the Jordan River Valley of Northern Michigan. Every single cover, page, sleeve, and block was made in Michigan.

Breathe Owl Breathe - The Listeners / These Train Tracks
RAD 006 - Book / 7"
Release: 12/6/11

1. The Listeners (The Mole & The Ostrich) [4:49 / 26 pages]
2. These Train Tracks [3:41 / 26 pages]

www.breatheowlbreathe.com || www.whatisrad.com

Copyright 2011 by Breathe Owl Breathe
(From the YouTube description)

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Book + Trailer: Confessions of a Guidette, by Nicole Polizzi


@nytimes bestselling author @Sn00ki takes over her book publisher's office and shares her sickest tips from CONFESSIONS OF A GUIDETTE. Production Company: Web Media Digital
(From the YouTube description)

Monday, October 10, 2011

Book + Trailer: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness, by Julie Klam

(@JulieKlam)
The secrets of love, health, and happiness gleaned from a life lived with dogs from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Woof and Love At First Bark.

Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, unable to meet a man she could spend her life with. And then it happened: she had a dream about a Boston terrier- a dream that practically hit her over the head. The companion she needed was not necessarily the one she'd had in mind.

As fate would have it, a dog is exactly the thing that she needed. The New York Times bestselling You Had Me at Woof is the often-hilarious and always charming story of one woman's discovery of all she really needed to learn about life through her relationships with her canine companions. Klam shares how her love for dogs and the lessons she's learned caring for them has shaped her heart. This is a funny, earnest, and emotionally compelling look at the surprises, pleasures, and revelations that happen when you let any mutt, beagle, terrier, or bulldog go charging through your world.
(From the YouTube description)

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Visible Man, by Chuck Klosterman


Book trailer for bestselling author @CKlosterman's new novel.
[Directed by Charles Haine; produced by Dirty Robber]

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Book + Trailer: A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness


(@Patrick_Ness) and illustrated by Jim Kay
Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
(From the YouTube description)