Sunday 10 November 2013

Assured Destruction: The Transmedia Elements

Assured Destruction
by Michael F. Stewart
Non Sequitur Press
978-0-981269948
183 pp.
Ages 12+
March, 2013

Script Kiddie
by Michael F. Stewart
Non Sequitur Press
978-0981269962
212 pp.
Ages 12+
August, 2013




I was blown away by Michael F. Stewart's Assured Destruction in March 2013 when I reviewed it.  It's an edgy computer thriller for young adults.  He's followed it up with an even more captivating volume in Script Kiddie, Book 2 in the Assured Destruction series. (My review for Script Kiddie will be posted this week at canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.ca.) The various media that Janus and her Shadownet personalities use for communication are complex and varied, and Michael F. Stewart shares them in this video below, offering the means for readers to engage with these virtual characters through  entertaining and somewhat authentic (they are digital, after all) channels.

Assured Destruction: The Transmedia Elements
Uploaded by Michael Stewart on June 11, 2013 to YouTube.

Saturday 9 November 2013

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore
Illustrated by Barbara Reid
North Winds Press/Scholastic Canada
978-1443124713
32 pp.
Ages 3-9
October, 2013

Clement Clarke Moore's classic Christmas poem is given a fresh Canadian spirit, courtesy of award-winning plasticine illustrator Barbara Reid.






The Night Before Christmas

 
Uploaded on November 7, 2013 by Barbara Reid to YouTube