Our goal is to let kids know reading is cool books are cool.'Īs part of his 'Imagination Tour,' Skye has visited more than 900 schools in 48 states.

'It's always exciting to get an author like this. 'Reading is one of the main things we emphasize at Glendale,' librarian Jim Hill said. The assembly was sponsored by Deseret Book, publisher of Skye's books, and the Deseret Media Cos., which have launched a literacy initiative for children called Read Today. Skye, who is the author of the popular 'Leven Thumps' and 'Pillage' series, was speaking at an assembly at Glendale Middle School in honor of National Children's Book Week, celebrated this week. It was so cool when I put books and imagination together.

'I was a kid that largely survived on imagination. Imagination makes life more textured it's a vehicle that opens your mind to the impossible.'Īnd how do you strengthen your imagination? Through books, he says. 'It makes school better it makes problems better. 'What doesn't it make better?' asks author Obert Skye. Also arguably make up the backbone of each cartoon.SALT LAKE CITY - Imagination is one of the most powerful things you can ever find. There's a lot of them, and they arguably make up the backbone of every short. Okay, now here's some categories that I think should be kept: Maybe we could make a rule that says if a credit appears on only one short, then a category should not be created for it. This is something I'd ideally like to avoid. Some credits only appear on one cartoon, creating a lot of categories with only one page in them.How do we handle categories where someone played more than one role? (i.e., Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson being animators and directors).Some of the categories (and thus credits) could be based on misinformation (i.e., taking credits from the unreliable IMDb).I largely agree with TheBigGnome that the categories convey useful information, but I have several other concerns:

You could argue that since 'almost every cartoon is produced by Leon Schlesinger/Eddie Selzer/John Burton' there's no need to keep the producer categories. If every cartoon were composed by Carl Stalling then I could understand why there would be no need to add the category. I feel that the change in music composers/directors is significant enough to note. Directed, produced, written keep, but because almost every cartoon is music by milt franklyn and Carl Stalling there's really no need to add these.

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