The Newberry Award is the highest honor awarded to the author of a children’s book and the list of winners includes some classics for every age. James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish) and the New York Public Library have invited people to make a 90-second movie of their favorite Newbery book (runner-up “honor” books are allowed, too). Here’s the first one, based on one of my favorites, A Wrinkle in Time.

This is a great opportunity to revisit old favorites and find some new ones from the Newbery list.

Rules:

1. Your video should be 90 seconds or less. (Some exceptions, but keep it short.)

2. Your video has to be about a Newbery award-winning (or Newbery honor-winning) book.

3. Your video must condense the plot of the book in 90 seconds or less. Again, exceptions will be made for something really ingeniously bonkers, but it has to be related to a Newbery winning book.

4. Upload your videos to YouTube or Vimeo or whatever and send the link to kennedyjames gmail com. Make the subject line be “90 SECOND NEWBERY” and please tell me your name, age, where you’re from, and whatever other comments you’d like to include, including whether you’d like me to link to your personal site. You can give an alias if you want; he understand privacy concerns.

5. Sending the link grants James Kennedy the right to post it on his blog and to other websites where he sometimes posts content (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and to share at public readings, school visits–and hopefully the “90-Second Newbery” Film Festival at the New York Public Library in the Fall of 2011.

6. Deadline is September 15, 2011.

I’d love to see what you create!