Congrats to our 3rd and 4th grade Wondercourse students! Their 90 second Newbery video on Maniac Magee has been selected to be shown at the 90 Second Newbery film festival at the Witte Museum! Watch the video below!
Here are the judges' remarks: Masterful! The stop-motion animation in this movie is super impressive, very high quality. I loved in particular the flying tears, the “yelling” lines coming from Maniac’s parents, the way Maniac’s hand snatches a football out of the sky, how Amanda’s book gets ripped in half, and the looming buffalo! The lyrics fit the Post Malone song perfectly, as they represented the plot of the book very well. I liked how the stop-motion animated figures were all monochromatic black and white, possibly to symbolize and black-and-white racial divide of Two Mills, the setting of the book. The paper cutouts were all done in a compelling style that was simple and clear without being too obvious. This movie rocks!