Romain Segaud makes short films, commercials, and title sequences. I particularly enjoy his short, TimTom. It uses CG animation that's very smooth and has the added benefit of faces that are rendered as drawing pads! Expressions change when the characters flip the pages. Clever and fun.
This long-awaited hardcover edition collects the beginning chapters of Linda Medley's original graphic novel series, including all the stories from The Curse of Brambly Hedge through Solicitine. The series garnered considerable critical acclaim, a number of industry awards, and inclusion in the Yalsa Recommended Reading List.
The 2007 Caldecott Medal winner is Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion) Flotsam is a cinematic unfolding of discovery. A vintage camera washed up on the beach provides a young boy with a surprising view of fantastical images from the bottom of the sea. From fish-eye to lens-eye, readers see a frame-by-frame narrative of lush marinescapes ebbing and flowing from the real to the surreal.
“Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have done through the ages. Wiesner’s wordless tale resonates with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively humor,” said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Janice Del Negro.
