Nick Glass (TeachingBooks) and I have been having a long-running conversation about the effectiveness of book trailers as student projects. Nick just wrote to share this cool contest with me–The Teen Book Video Awards.
Sponsored by Random House Children’s Books, the site posts the three winners of this year’s contest which asked young adult (in this case, college student) producers to promote popular titles of the year.
Take a look at the trailers for Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty, and Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now.  These live action productions make wonderful booktalks for us all and serve as models for future student films.
The Book Standard offers more information regarding the videos and the November 29th screenings.
