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August 31, 2012 by Travis Jonker

A Conversation in Books (Literally)

August 31, 2012 by Travis Jonker   17 comments

Elizabeth Bird (of A Fuse #8 Production) had a dream. A dream to conduct an entire conversation using nothing but the titles of books. She asked if I would be willing to help make this happen and I agreed because it sounded like a excellent dream to me. We wrote it up, filmed our scenes, and put it together.

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Now, you may have heard that Candlewick Press is kicking off a yearlong campaign to honor the importance of picture books. It’s called “We Believe in Picture Books”, and they plan to post one video a day – 365 in total – to celebrate the fact that picture books are pretty great.

The site launches today (click here to visit) and we get to see The Bird’s dream realized. This was fun.

(filming credit for my portion of the video: John Schumacher and Colby Sharp)

Filed under: Books on Film, News

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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  1. shelly says

    August 31, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    Love! Love! Love!! Congratulations on this wonderful new (soon to be mimicked everywhere) way of communicating!

  2. Elizabeth Fama says

    August 31, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    Bestest thing on the Internet today. Betsy, you ham!

    • Travis says

      August 31, 2012 at 12:58 pm

      Thanks Elizabeth. Ha – her acting skills put me to shame, don’t they?

      • Mark Flowers says

        August 31, 2012 at 6:52 pm

        There’s no doubt Betsy should have been a 20s silent film star, but you did pretty well too Travis.

  3. Stacy Dillon says

    August 31, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Ooooo….I think I feel a 4th grade assignment in the works!

  4. Jesse Klausmeier says

    August 31, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    This video completely made my day. So excited for a whole year of picture book love. Thank you Candlewick! And thanks Betsy and Travis, for a great launch video.

  5. Ellis Weiner says

    August 31, 2012 at 9:19 pm

    Betsy: You got it, kid. That certain something. You went out there just another gal associated with Fuse #8, but you came back A STAR.

  6. Linda Baie says

    September 1, 2012 at 9:26 am

    I just watched your launching video-wonderful and fun to see, & then I watched Jon Klassen today. It’ll be a wonderful year! Thank you Elizabeth & Travis!

  7. PragmaticMom says

    September 3, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    This is so much fun!

  8. Sharon Creech says

    September 4, 2012 at 8:16 am

    Love that clip.

    • Travis says

      September 4, 2012 at 2:19 pm

      Thanks, Sharon!

  9. Jim Averbeck says

    September 5, 2012 at 11:21 am

    ??????????????????????????

    • Jim Averbeck says

      September 5, 2012 at 11:22 am

      argh! When I input that comment it was a row of hearts. Truly a case of lost in translation.

      Loved the video.

      • Travis says

        September 5, 2012 at 11:59 am

        Thanks, Jim!

  10. mistercupido says

    September 26, 2015 at 6:53 am

    Grazie mille per queste preziose informazioni

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