Book Title Poetry

Here's how I see it...

the outsiders,

betrayed,

a curse dark as gold,

angels turns their backs

witness - wildmagic - chosen

phoenix rising

star in the storm.

Book Title Poetry

Book Title Poetry



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Sew teen!!
the misfits,
a kiss in time,
I want to be your shoebox.
How fast is it?
Running out of time

Book Title Poetry

Here's some book title poetry made by your L.A. teachers. I think they had fun creating them too.

The Undergrounders

Undergrounders by David Skuy

Move over Sigmund Brouwer and Eric Walters - I think we've found your replacement... David Skuy. This is David Skuy's fourth hockey book and I think he's firmly got his foot in the door and a fan base to back him up.

The summary:
Can playing hockey help a street kid get his life back? After his Mom dies, and the landlord kicks him out, twelve-year-old Jonathan faces the loneliness and danger of life on the streets -- until he meets Lewis. Lewis takes him under his wing and leads him to his new home among a group of kids living in an abandoned underground shopping mall who call themselves the "undergrounders." Now renamed "Mouse" Jonathan runs errands, delivers packages and panhandles for food money. An escape from this life comes to him in the form of hockey gear. Stolen hockey gear, but hockey gear nonetheless. He suits up and heads to the community rink, where he befriends regular kids who welcome him into their game and onto their team. He agrees, knowing he can never tell them about being homeless. Playing hockey makes him feel like a kid again, but keeping his double life a secret proves to be more difficult and dangerous than he ever could have imagined.

Heroes

Hero by Mike Lupica

I took this book with me for over the break, liked it but didn't love it. Worth reading and maybe some of you will love it and prove me wrong.

Here's the summary:
Fourteen-year-old Zach Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can text-message himself across the miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His Dad had been a hero, a saviour to America, a confidant to the President. Then he died and the changes began in Zach. What Zach never knew was that his Father was no ordinary man, he was a superhero, battling the world's evil. This is a battle that has been waged for generations and knows no boundaries. And now it's Zach's turn to take on the fight. It's Zach's turn to become a hero.

And there's a book trailer.
Read On.

Concrete Poetry

Mr. Newman showed me this very cool animated concrete poem. This might be the future of concrete poetry.
Enjoy.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Roderick Rules

I don't know if you're aware that the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules the movie is about to be released this month (March 25?). I thought they did a terrific job with the first movie and will be excited to see how they follow it up.
Here's the movie trailer.

Vik Muniz

The other film I was greatly inspired by featured one of my favourite artists Vik Muniz, called Wasteland.

2010 Academy Awards

This last Sunday the Academy Awards show was on, I hope that as you sit watching the fashion parade and watch the snippets of the films, that you also make the connection that many of these movies started out as a book, or a short story, or a picture book, or a screenplay, that it is someone creatively expressing themselves in words, and then a director instructs the actors how to communicate and display those words with action and emotion. I hope you heard in the acceptance speeches the stories of actors and directors who were so moved and inspired by a book that they believed it was worthy of a larger audience.

So here are a few that inspired me. One made by one of my favourite author/illustrators and the other made by one of my favourtie artists.

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan

Retelling Red Riding Hood

I love this video format retelling of The Little Red Riding Hood Classic Fairytale. Couldn't resist sharing it with you.

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.