Lights! Camera! Action!



Getting just the right picture



 During four Tuesdays in April, five groups of kids gathered in the Children's Department to work with Jeff Ginger and several volunteers from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Tap In Leadership Academy to make Stop Motion videos.   After learning about the process, each group wrote their own scripts, created scenes, took pictures and edited their results in Microsoft Movie Maker.  Follow these three links to see some of the great stories created by kids just like you!  A-maze-ing by James, Hanna & Sarah ; Penguin'Stuffed  by Nishant, Sage & Will ;  Princess May and the Evil Rosebud by Nick, Rebekah, Cara & Sadie ; and The Wrestling Match by Alayah, Jaylece & Amir.

Enjoy!   -Elaine B.


Setting the scene with wires



Rigging the stuffed star





Editing the photographs

Using the movie editing software



  

    































Alice in Wonderland

If you want to read up before the new Alice in Wonderland movie hits the theaters Friday, March 5, try some of the whimsical and thought-provoking versions offered in our Children's Department. Ever since John Tenniel illustrated Charles Dodge's original 1865 publication (published under the well-known pseudonym of Lewis Carroll), it seems to be every illustrator's dream to illustrate the story: Lisbeth Zwerger, Alison Jay, Michael Foreman, and Barry Moser ,to name a few. Even the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, has garnered attention from illustrators like Helen Oxenbury with her accessible watercolors. After traveling through the pages with Alice, you and your family may enjoy taking in one of the Alice (and me) in Wonderland events held by the Orpheum Children's Science Museum. -Elaine B.