Politics in Practice
November 30, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Crunch By Leslie Connor Katherine Tegan Books (an imprint of Harper Collins) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-169229-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. Leslie Connor forgive me; I sometimes forget how awesome you are. It’s nice to rely on an author. To know that you can trust them to write book after book that isn’t crap. That’s true […]
November 29, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Originally I intended to go to ALA in New Orleans this coming June. If you’ve not been to a New Orleans ALA Conference, there’s nothing quite like it. The food, the sights, it’s all quite lovely. That was before I learned about a project with a release date in June that was going to throw […]
November 28, 2010 by Betsy Bird
I may have mentioned in my National Book Award post that Jon Scieszka presented an award to Joan Ganz Cooney with the help of none other than Elmo himself. Well, thanks to the quick thinking of Rocco Staino, we have evidence that this event did indeed occur. Behold! It’s Elmo’s/Jon’s World. I’d sing the theme […]
November 27, 2010 by Betsy Bird
It can be hard defending my juvenile love of Archie comics as a kid, but I am a woman of many means. Now there’s a new magazine out there by the name of Veronica & Betty. First off, not Betty & Veronica but Veronica & Betty? Granted, there used to be a comic by the […]
November 25, 2010 by Betsy Bird
As you bask in this glorious day, eating lots of food, gawking at the Diary of a Wimpy Kid balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (wish my apartment was just a leetle closer to the parade route) enjoy this fabulous and fun article by Rocco Staino that appeared recently in Huffington Post: Turkeys: The […]
November 24, 2010 by Betsy Bird
It’s a Book By Lane Smith Roaring Brook Press (a division of Holtzbrinck) $12.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-606-0 On shelves now. Where to begin? Begin at the beguine, I suppose. I’ve had It’s a Book sitting on my shelf for months and now the time is ripe. As you may have heard one place or another, it […]
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November 23, 2010 by Betsy Bird
This is worth noting. An online auction that helps to let lower income kids attend art programs. But I’ll let the scholarship’s founder, Jarrett Krosoczka, tell you more himself: As Jarrett wrote me recently: “I started a scholarship at the Worcester Art Museum for needy youth who have unique familial situations, in memory of my […]
November 23, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Or rather, why don’t they get reprinted with new illustrations all that often? I was in the library the other day with an editor friend I know and we started discussing The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling is a difficult fellow to get a grasp on. The heart and soul of colonialism in […]
November 22, 2010 by Betsy Bird
When you work with the real Winnie-the-Pooh you have a tendency to get complacent. “Oh sure,” you think. ” I know everything about that bear. Absolutely everything.” So it’s nice when the universe gives you a swift kick in the pants to remind you that you are not always up on your Pooh knowledge. Or […]
November 21, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Julie Fortenberry, I kiss your tiny feet. I’ve known for years that Shaun Tan had been transferring his efforts from books to filmmaking, but I’d not seen the fruits of his or anyone else’s labor. Now we have a trailer for his remarkable The Lost Thing. My sole regret is that there is nowhere for […]
Good Comics for Kids
by J. Caleb Mozzocco
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