DVD/Picture books

[[deleted user]]

I am new to this so hopefully I didn't miss this in the librarian manual:

This is kind of a policy question related to a specific book. In children's literature, there exists a genre of DVD which are exact video-versions of picture books. (Usually a narrator reads the picture book while illustrations taken from the actual book depict the action.) They're not super common, but also not rare. Should these be combined with the picture book version of books as I am tempted to do? Or shift the DVD version to "not a book".

See: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51... and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51...

It is kind of a mix between a movie and an audiobook. Thank you

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Those two links are the same, and they are to a hardcover book.

[[deleted user]]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94...

If you look up this ISBN in worldcat, you'll see its a DVD. Sorry, double-pasted one of the entries.

[Cait]

Here's the publisher, Nutmeg Media:
http://www.nutmegmedia.com/

"Welcome to Nutmeg Media
Welcome to our exclusive library of over 100 outstanding children's picture books on video. Nutmeg Media works with leading American publishers to identify the finest new picture books for children in the pre-school through early primary grade years."

It does sound a lot like an audiobook with pictures. It's definitely an edge case, but I'm inclined to call it a book.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Cait wrote: "It does sound a lot like an audiobook with pictures. It's definitely an edge case, but I'm inclined to call it a book."

Agreed.

[Cheryl]

Wait - are we talking about the format field? I hope you're not going to call it simply an audiobook. Maybe "DVD picture-book" or "picture-book on DVD."

This discussion reminds me of when I entered a Playaway View title, and we discussed how to list it. I see somebody changed it to 'ebook+audio' which is totally inaccurate. School Days: Stories for Early Learners.

Can we have a consensus on what to call these two formats?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Wait - are we talking about the format field?"

No. I think that's fine as is on this example (see message #3).

[Cait]

Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Can we have a consensus on what to call these two formats?"

Do you remember how that earlier discussion went? I'd be inclined to call it a "Video picturebook" or just a "Video book". "Ebook" does seem less accurate here. (It looks like the edition you linked to may have had its details wiped in the Amazon purge -- if there was librarian info on it, it must not have been attributed by the script.)

[Cheryl]

Ack. Some prior confusion, sorry.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Well, I thought we were going to call Playaway Views by that name. After all, they're a special format, just as Playaways are, in that they're self-contained and the reader does not need a CD or DVD player, or an e-reader or a computer. They're also different in that they often have collections of titles, as do, I believe, some of the Playaways. They often are *not* alternate editions of existing books, in other words.

And I suspect they'll become sufficiently popular that, even were we not super detail-oriented, we'd want to agree on standard terminology. My library is in love with both regular Playaways and Playaway Views.

Maybe somebody with librarian training wants to look at how my public library is handling them: http://www.clan.lib.nv.us/polaris/sea...