Book Trailers (often referred to as Book Videos)



Resources for teaching

Digital Booktalks
http://www.digitalbooktalk.com
Dr. Robert Kenny, an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida’s School of Film and Digital Media (SFDM), developed the Digital Booktalk (DBT) project after the concept was initiated by the UCFSFDM faculty members (and assistant professors) Chris Murray and Phil Peters.

Digital Storyteller
http://www.digitalstoryteller.org/

Primary Access
http://www.primaryaccess.org

Skrbl--Online Whiteboard
http://www.skrbl.com
Interactive sharing device

Snapkast
http://snapkast.com/index.php
Record your audio and share it.  Great place to record podcasts.  Can also add a narration to a PowerPoint.  Free

TeacherTube
http://www.teachertube.com

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com

YouTube Video Toolbox
http://www.youtube.com/t/video_toolbox
Information on camera work, lighting, sound, editing, music and more.

Windows Movie Maker: Making a Narrated Slide Show
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/handouts/04_1448H.pdf
 

Collections and links

Book Trailers from Pima County Public Library, Tucson, Arizona
http://www.library.pima.gov/teenzone/trailers/

HarperTeen on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/harperteen

Penguin Young Readers on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/PenguinYoungReaders

Random Books on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/RandomBooks

RSS Feeds listed on Nancy Keane's Booktalks Quick and Simple
These don't have video, just sound.
http://nancykeane.com/rss.html

Springfield Township High School Virtural Library list of links to trailers
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/movietrailers.html

Circle of Seven Publications
http://www.cosproductions.com/
 
 

Individual Trailers.  Most are from Youtube, listed alphabetically by title

Adoration of Jenna Fox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk1zPw_PHc&feature=related

Beige
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqblXZmBD8&mode=related&search=

Bewitching Season
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2fifqHUdKU&feature=related

Black Sheep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3t6RS2H-4

The Book Thief
Created by John Haller
http://youtube.com/watch?v=95s8GlKY40o&mode=related&search=

The Chocolate War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYShJB8GEI

Curse as Dark as Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS1Wo2TyFlk&feature=related

Dangerous Book for Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PSdBWvx8s

Ender's Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjrfT7Hvtg4

Fahrenheit 451
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DJb-R3Phk

Forest of Hands and Teeth -- Teen Book Award Video 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUi3Ap2ga1U&feature=related

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Created byCongratulations to Katie Koskenmaki
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L93HOOy-lSc&mode=related&search=

Harry Potterand the Order of the Phoenix (animated)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7zMae3ocD0

How I Live Now
Created by Susan Muirhead
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qt_aDmkEPTQ&mode=related&search=

I am the Messenger
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e9b88d43527f4b14f750
Advertising on site can be distracting

Independent Dames
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQAmG1Il3HM

Johnny Hazzard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evXbyFqDq9k

King Dork
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tmTKQ3CzOW0

Lord of the Flies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaxRCAzBSyA
Done with Legos

Maximum Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCLbRZC0Fw

Midnighters
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V79Ba8J9GEk&mode=related&search=

Natalie's Midnighters Fan Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6S8ZeHR84

One Flew Over the CooCoo's Nest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioBPZ72lQQw&mode=related&search=

The Outsiders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXzGbUhqv6A

Parties & Potions Teen Book Video Award 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr6VsNEjd2g&feature=related

Persistence of Memory  Teen Book Video Award 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ykTIxnZcw&feature=related

Peter and the Starcatchers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hWMhw3XQDM

Ranger’s Apprentice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22KZSiU3-k

Raven’s Gate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViqAOc-ov7U

The Scarlet Letter
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=34297079f075357988f3
Advertising can be distracting.

Skinned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4TwsgUD80&feature=channel

Stormbreaker (student made, not the movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k8Kaab0q3M

Tomorrow When the War Began
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKAOOnsfnCk

Twilight: Bella and Edward Slide Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhDWfHe_P58&mode=related&search=

So Yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlIUgKtjthY

Uglies
Not really about the book, but has to do with making people pretty.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

Wake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IpLhITWvs&feature=related
 
 

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Created and Copyrighted Winter 2008, Updated Spring 2009  by Patti Tjomsland
Part of a BER seminar