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Uncommon Sense: The Art and Imagination of Nancy Willard Email This Page
Filmmaker: Ken Robinson and Michael Mayhew
VHS - $ 95.00
Price listed includes Public Performance License.
Uncommon Sense brings to life the magical world of Newberry award-winning children?s author Nancy Willard, as we trace the chain of inspirations leading to her latest book, The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe. Using a combination of interviews, puppetry, and Nancy?s natural gift for teaching, Uncommon Sense explores how whimsy, play, and memory form the seeds of new characters and stories ? a process guaranteed to enchant aspiring storytellers, poets, and artists of all ages, as well as anyone interested in the mysteries of the creative process. So welcome to Nancy?s world ? a place where soda cans, broken valves, and even turkey bones contain the seeds of stories, and inspiration comes as naturally as breathing!

Running time: 28 min., Year released: 2003
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-663-7
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: N, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

Reviews:

"...makes tangible the fairy tales and fictions rolling around in her skull."
--Robert Wilonsky, The Dallas Observer

"...whimsical..stirring.."
--Featured star review, Booklist

Other Credits:

A Mayhew/Robinson Production
Featuring Nancy Willard, Jane Yolen & Walter Mayes
Cinematography by Ken Perco & Adam McDaniel
Puppet sequences by Ken Robinson
Music by Richard Kosinsky & Bill Levine
Songs by Nancy Willard & Cliff Sussman
Produced and Edited by Ken Robinson
Directed by Michael Mayhew
This title can also be found in: Aging, Art & Artists (Visual), Authors, Children's, Literature and Literary Portraits, Puppetry, Writers, Young Adult
 

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