My Sony Touch and I declared a truce a while ago, but I still giggled over Lane Smith’s picture book defense of print:
It features a Monkey, a Mouse, and a Jackass, and it goes a little something like this:
The book itself is even better. Naturally.
My favorite moment is when the Jackass compresses one of the most dramatic scenes in Treasure Island down to a brief text message, because there are “Too many letters.”:
LJS: rrr! K? lol!
JIM:!
And the last line is simple perfection.
I think that book trailer might be the most awesome summary of the e-book VS actual book crowd ever. And I have to own and read a copy to every one of my classes as an introduction or sponge activity. At least in the reading class. Oh, wait—dag, I might not be able due to Jackass. I’m still buying the book. And I let my principal read it and see what she thinks. Either way, you’re my book-hero.
We really have to find a book for your class that doesn’t have questionable language in it . . . XD
Fantastic.
I only wish it was sci fi.
Yeah.
it’s available on Kindle, by the way . . .
Great! I’m going to show this to my kids later on.
My kids love it — Janie read it twice to Sunny and they kept chorusing, “No! it’s a book!”
This is brilliant!
It really is—and I’m told most of Lane Smith’s books are like this one.