Train Spotting with Lisa Jahn-Clough
Curious City follows the train of story to create discovery tools for children’s books and young adult. We followed Lisa Jahn-Clough’s May 2013 release of Nothing But Blue (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) right to the tracks this week. Mark Mattos Photography and I drove through back streets, visited abandoned lots, and walked down secret wooded paths, beaches, and finally train tracks to find photo locations for images for the book trailer for Nothing But Blue. Puppeteer Bela Rieger, Lisa Jahn-Clough, and Lisa’s dog Rico joined us on those byways for a morning...
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Curious City’s mission is take books from what they are about to what they can do. When handed Mary Newell DePalma’s Bow-Wow Wiggle-Waggle (Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers) to produce a trailer, we knew we could not just tell you what the book was about. We needed instead to show you that the best picture books allow the reader and listener to completely engage with the page. We headed into Mind’s Eye Production’s studios with a reading 7-year-old, an observant 4-year-old, and their book champion mom. Together they read the story and talked...
Read MoreReunited Tour Bus
A road novel should have its very own transportation. Right? To support the Boston to Austin Level3 Reunited Tour for Hilary Weisman Graham’s YA novel Reunited, Curious City created a pop-up photo booth that allows you to be in the PeaPod, the book’s infamous vintage VW van. The photo booth was inaugurated at Hilary’s launch party with all the guests crowding in to wave out the front window. The spare tire happens to sport the national offer to text for free book chapters and band MP3s. As photos of the booth are shared on those mighty social...
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