There is a book trailer for Sam and Dave Dig a Hole. Yeah, first I think I should stress that my relationships with the editors are wonderful, and then I would also acknowledge that there is a book trailer for a book called Sam and Dave Dig a Hole in which Jon Klassen does throw dirt all over me.
That was not a stunt double for that. No special effects. That’s something that actually happened, and I’m still not over it.
The trailer for Sam and Dave Dig a Hole has a Burl Ives song behind it, and I found that song, but Jon and I both love Burl Ives. It’s one of the kind of early things that cemented our friendship. Jon’s one of my best friends, and we found out very early on we both love Frog and Toad, and we both love Burl Ives, and we’ll trade sort of like rare Burl Ives songs.
That’s “The Doughnut Song.” It’s not a tremendously rare one, but it was on a Burl Ives album I grew up with and seemed like a good one for that, and we knew – we knew from the start we wanted to have Burl Ives on that trailer. It was just a matter of finding the right Burl Ives song.
