Guest Post by Author Anna Staniszewski: Top Five Favorite Fairy Tales
Today on the blog, I’m excited to have a guest post by Anna Staniszewski, author of the hilarious My Very Unfairy Tale Life series. The...
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- May 10, 2010
- 1 min
Brontë sisters action figures!
This is just too cool not to share. Make sure to watch towards the end to see the Brontësaurus in action! #charlottebronte #emilybronte...
- Apr 26, 2010
- 1 min
A sneak peek at some new e-ink gadgets
Redferret.net has an interesting blogpost about some new e-ink prototypes, including one with a flexible screen: #eink #ereader #video
- Mar 22, 2010
- 2 min
Monkey Week at Monkey Poop!
I’ve decided to declare this week Monkey Week here at Monkey Poop in honor of my two year blogaversary! Okay, so the anniversary was...
- Mar 16, 2010
- 1 min
Ray Bradbury on Writing and Rejection
In junior high (aka middle school to some) I did a project on Ray Bradbury and ended up reading all of his short stories that we had in...
- Mar 11, 2010
- 1 min
Making a Book Cover
(via @bookninja #video
- Feb 27, 2010
- 1 min
How to make a book (1947)
(via The Book Bench and via Book Patrol) #link #video
- Feb 18, 2010
- 1 min
Three of My Favorite Disney Lullabies
Okay this is a bit off-topic but in the spirit of my new motherhood I thought I’d share a few of my favorite Disney lullabies with you....
- Jan 20, 2010
- 1 min
Lebowitz: Jane Austen is popular because she is misread and misunderstood
I seem to be in (yet another) Jane Austen kick these days. Author and Vanity Fair contributing editor Fran Lebowitz on Jane Austen (via...
- Oct 8, 2009
- 1 min
Boston Globe Horn-Book Award Speeches
Here is Neil Gaiman’s Acceptance speech for The Graveyard Book: You can see the rest of the videos here (including MT Anderson’s speech):...
- Oct 3, 2009
- 1 min
Mad Men–Sesame Street Style
(as seen on bookshelves of doom) #AMC #MadMen #sesamestreet #video
- Sep 18, 2009
- 1 min
Harvard Book Store to offer Espresso…
…book machine that is! Check out http://www.harvard.com/bookmachine/ for more info. They’re also having a machine naming contest so email...
- Sep 11, 2009
- 1 min
still don’t want to read the book, but i might want to see the made for TV movie…
(via bookshelves of doom) PS I’m going on vacay for a week or so. I’ll be responding to emails, but won’t be posting to the blog. See you...
- Aug 14, 2009
- 1 min
E-reader with a flexible screen
this e-reader (called the Readius) looks really cool to me, but I guess they’ve been having trouble finding investors. I wish I could get...
- Jun 29, 2009
- 1 min
espresso book machine
I’ve been hearing about this automatic book machine for a while now but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a video of the machine...
- May 20, 2009
- 1 min
Sherlock is that you? Are you sure?
(As blogged by bookshelves of doom) I’m pretty sure Sherlock wasn’t like this in the stories I read but it might still be entertaining:...
- May 15, 2009
- 1 min
A Conversation With Jeffrey Eugenides
An interview with one of my favorite authors: A Conversation With Jeffrey Eugenides – Video Library – The New York Times #links #video
- Oct 1, 2008
- 2 min
Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and made up words
So this morning, my husband showed me this XKCD comic making fun of Neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem (Disclaimer: I have not actually...
- May 2, 2008
- 1 min
“The Writing of Fantasy” lecture online
I recently discovered this lecture online and wish I could have gone to it. The speakers were Gregory Maguire, Susan Cooper, and Roger...
- Apr 29, 2008
- 1 min
Amy Tan on Creativity
Peta had this on her journal and I really enjoyed it. It is a lecture by Amy Tan on creativity from Ted.com #amytan #video
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