Watch Kenneth Oppel’s The Boundless

Children’s author Kenneth Oppel is the Governor General’s Award-winning writer of the Airborn series and the Silverwing Saga, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. At Wordfest, he is presenting his new novel, The Boundless, about Will Everett and his unexpected journey on a glamorous train. Watch the book trailer here.

A growing trend in the literary world are book trailers. Much like a movie trailer, book trailers are a short, promotional videos meant to tease readers into reading the advertised book. This mini-series of blog posts will look at several book trailers by authors who will be featured at this year’s Wordfest.

What do you think of book trailers? Do you like this growing trend? Would it make your child more likely to read a book? We want to know! Stayed tuned next week for the second part of this mini-series.