100 Scope Notes posted a review of a book called Skeleton Creek a few days back. Now the book itself sounds pretty neat, but what really caught my attention was how the author used a mixture of old-fashioned text on paper and new-fangled Internet video to tell his story.
Interesting. I remember a book maybe last year or 2007 that worked together with a website, and the 39 Clues series is famously utilizing all sorts of things, online and offline, to hook kids in. What do you guys think? Will we be seeing this a lot more often, or will it remain a gadget and a hook?
And my question is, what happens if/when the website or the videos go down? How will that affect the reading of the book?
2 comments:
When the original website goes offline?
Why, then you get to be a /real/ internets detective, tracking down torrents or youtube shares of the video. (:
Good question! I just got my hands on a copy of this book. Will be posting a review later in the week...
(will be located at my personal site as well as my child lit site.)
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