Children's Literature Conference Cont'd (at last)

Could YOU resist this book?

Now I can finally get around to the sessions I attended at the Georgia Children's Literature Conference. Most of these sessions were by and for school librarians, but you can always pick up something to use in a public library setting. At least we don't have to worry about curriculum standards.
The first session I attended was "Making movies about books and stepping into a good story." The presenters claimed to be from a poor district but I noticed that everyone seemed to have digital cameras and SmartBoards. Hmmmm. Their presentation sounded a great deal like the Whole Language Learning stuff, but it fit in nicely with Mo Willems's belief that books should not just be read, but played.
The book they used as an example was Close Your Eyes by Kate Banks (which was sooo cute that I bought a copy in the conference booksale). They had many activities to reinforce all the words and plot in the book (not much, really - just a call and response of why little tiger won't close his eyes and go to sleep but he's just the cutest little tiger!), but the one that I was interested in (and the titular activity), was where they had the children act out the story.
Using a scan or photograph of a good background layout in the picture book projected with the SmartBoard, the teacher costumed two children as tigers (simple costume of tiger patterned cloth with a hole cut like in a poncho and a paper headband with tiger ears on it ... which children could make themselves) and photographed them in front of the projected background as they said the words of little tiger and his mother. The teacher cycled through the whole class to make sure everyone appeared. She then printed off each page with the words from the book and the names of each child next to their pictures and bound it so that they would have a copy. Cute!
What can I use? Ah! The simple costumes like that fabric poncho and the tiger ears would add a great deal to the Creative Dramatics I already use in some storytimes. I drew pictures of them in my notes.
Doing the full monty (excuse me, I mean, the full portion) with the backdrop, photos, etc. would make a nice summer activity some time. Choose a book to re-enact with kids, take pictures, have bound to give to each child. Must check on prices for nice binding, but can run off here as well.
Getting this involved in a storybook would mean a great deal to a kid who doesn't really look on books as his or her friend like the rest of us do.