Video: Books & E-Media & Everything I Need to Know I Learned From A Children’s Book

YouTube may be a video site, but it’s excellent for finding book news if you know where to look. These two videos are from the Library of Congress’ channel.

1. Mystery aficionados Barbara Peters and Robert Rosenwald, owners of Poisoned Pen Books and Poisoned Pen Press in Scottsdale, AZ on the state of publishing and how the “medium [influences] the message.”

   Great watch if you’re interested in e-books, digital ink, and wireless reading devices.

2. Roaring Brook Press’ Everything I Need To Know I Learned From A Children’s Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life brings together more than 100 leaders from the arts, sciences, politics, business and other fields, recalling a children’s book they loved. In this video, editor Anita Silvey discusses the book.

   Anita Silvey is a distinguished former publisher of children’s books and was editor of The Horn Book, one of the most prestigious magazines devoted to young people’s literature.

I’ll be back later with video of Bill Cosby from last week’s Eliot-Pearson Awards at Tufts.