Good Comics for Kids
October 31, 2010 by Betsy Bird
You could be forgiven for thinking you could get through the day without seeing a Dickensian interpretation of Thriller. Some folks are Harry Potter fans. Others love Oz. It is the Dickens fan that is the most interesting to me sometimes, though. My friend Marci informed me that when Michael Jackson died there were a […]
October 30, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Lest we forget that book banning and free speech issues are conversational topics appropriate beyond the brackets of Banned Books Week, a recent news item has me lost for words. A federal appeals court has ruled, and this is true, that an Ohio high school teacher “has no First Amendment right to make assignments about […]
October 29, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors By Joyce Sidman Illustrated by Beckie Prange $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-618-71719-4 Ages 6-10 On shelves now. I believe that there are different muses of children’s literature. You have you Beautiful Spine muses, your Great Editor muses, your Awe-Inspiring Marketing muses, and your Copyediting Magnificence muses. Each one of these references those elements […]
October 28, 2010 by Betsy Bird
You know, sometimes you write a review and then you spend time thinking about it long after it has posted. The advantage, or disadvantage depending on how you view it, of blog reviews is that technically you could change them at any time. But is that a good idea? If you want to clarify a […]
October 27, 2010 by Betsy Bird
James Preller has an idea. An awesome idea. We’ve all heard that boys are reading far less than girls these days. To combat this lack of laddie reading, folks have come up with booklists or websites or what have you to inspire the male masses to pick up a book. Preller, however, has taken a […]
October 26, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Mockingbird By Kathryn Erskine Philomel (a division of Penguin) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-399-25264-8 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. Children’s librarians read quite a few books for kids and the result is that we tend to want to discuss them with one another. Unlucky librarians are surrounded solely by people who agree with their opinions. You’re much […]
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October 25, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Just a day or two ago, children’s literature bloggers converged upon Minneapolis, Minnesota to celebrate the Kidlitcon. And this year they got a bit of organizing help from the local folks over at Lerner Publishing Group. Yet before any of this happened, a couple lovely Lerner lasses met with me in NYC in a Belgian […]
October 24, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Recently Neil Gaiman and Shaun Tan sat down at the Sydney Opera House to discuss their work. The result is a series of interviews on the opera house’s website. I once was speaking to a musician about Shaun Tan and offered the fellow his contact information when Gaiman swoops over and says that not only […]
October 21, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Well, kids, here’s the deal. While I’d love to tell you that I won’t be blogging for the next few days or so because I’ll be at the Kidlitcon in Minnesota this weekend, truth be told the real reason for my sporadic bursts is that it’s my 10-year college reunion and I am in the […]
October 20, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Last Saturday I was able to breathe freely for the first time in months. This was due in large part to an event that occurred on the preceding Friday. You see, roughly six months ago I had an idea. A loony idea. A crazy, kooky, madcap INSANE idea. I had noticed in my travels, you […]
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