Watch this beautiful, wonderful trailer for a beautiful, wonderful book - Tall Story by Candy Gourlay. Click here for my interview with Ms. Gourlay.
Shweta Ganesh Kumar shared with me this TED Talk from novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about how "a single story" about another person or country can cause critical misunderstanding, and I felt that the talk really reflected why I started this blog. Please watch it below, if you haven't already: I sometimes teach creative writing to children and teens and have been very shocked to see that the first impulse of my students - all Filipinos or Chinese Filipinos ages 11-15 - is to write stories featuring characters with blond hair and blue eyes. It seems that, like the seven-year-old Adichie, my students have "a single story" about what literature is and do not think that people like them can exist in literature. (Needless to say, I am now trying to expose my students to more Filipino literature and literature from other Asian countries.) I blog because our students, nieces and nephews, children, grandchildren, and godchildren NEED AND DESERVE more than "a ...
Great trailer for a great book.
ReplyDeletethank you tarie!
ReplyDeleteThat is a great trailer. Tarie, is Tall Story out in the Philippines? The U.S. release date has been pushed back until early 2011. Though I may get the UK edition with is coming out in June.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU, Candy, for your story. =D
ReplyDeleteHi, Doret! The Philippine release has been pushed back too, to late July I think. I'm impatient because I want to host giveaways and buy copies for my little cousins and nieces!
You should've seen my face when I saw Tall Story would now be released in 2011 - I was like nooooooooo. Hopefully that's July of 2010.
ReplyDeleteYup, that's July 2010!
ReplyDeleteCandy, what is taking your publishers so long? =P
That's a beautiful trailer. I wonder if 3D glasses would work with it. I liked the multidimensional effects in it.
ReplyDeleteMedeia, Candy's brother created the trailer for her. :o) Amazing!
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