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February 28, 2011 by Betsy Bird
THE SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S BOOK WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS AND HONOREES OF THE 2011 GOLDEN KITE AWARDS & SID FLEISCHMAN AWARD The 2011 awards are presented for excellence in books for young readers published in the 2010 calendar year. Golden Kite Award Winners Fiction: TURTLE IN PARADISE By Jennifer Holm Random House Books […]
February 28, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Nice movie poster, right? Wouldn’t look too shabby in your local cineplex. Well, don’t get too excited quite yet. It seems that Sean Astin (a.k.a. Sam from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) is raising money to start production on this film, to be shot in Denmark. Lowry reports on the process, though she is […]
February 27, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Tonight, if you’re anything like myself, you’ll be cuddling up to a big bowl of popcorn to watch the Academy Awards get handed out. This year the animated short films are where you can find the most familiar name in children’s literature. First and foremost would have to be Shaun Tan (of The Arrival and […]
February 26, 2011 by Betsy Bird
We are living through a strange era. Fairy tales, long a source of folktelling splendor, are currently being pillaged for their movie rights like never before. There are, for example, THREE different Snow White retellings in the works as we speak, as well as that Red Riding Hood coming out in theaters and many many […]
February 25, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Me . . . Jane By Patrick McDonnell Little Brown and Company $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-316004546-9 Ages 4-8 On shelves April 5th Pity the picture book biographer. Theirs is not an easy lot. Seems to me that if you want to introduce a six-year-old to a famous person there are two ways of going about it. […]
February 24, 2011 by Betsy Bird
So I’m reading through my weekly edition of AL Direct and I notice that no matter what worldwide occurrence takes place, librarians are always there. Whether it’s damage to two libraries in Egypt, stories from the librarians in Christchurch, New Zealand, or how the Wisconsin Library Association delayed Library Legislative Day due to the protests, […]
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February 23, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Last August I had some fun highlighting The Creative Company’s series of short stories published as individual books. You know. The Monkey’s Paw. The Lottery. The Most Dangerous Game. That kind of stuff. While looking at their covers I couldn’t help but notice that quite a few were done by the artist Etienne Delessert. Delessert’s […]
February 22, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Small Persons with Wings By Ellen Booraem Dial (an imprint of Penguin) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-8037-3471-5 Ages 10-14 On shelves now We’re all sick of vampires right now. We’re also a little tired of zombies and don’t even TALK to me about angels. A couple years ago you could have said the same about child wizards. […]
February 21, 2011 by Betsy Bird
They’ve never much appealed to me before, but with my future spawn a-kicking in my midriff, it’s high time I started seeking out some of the better quality board books out there. After all, I ain’t reading no junk to the fledgling. So it is we begin a new series here on Fuse #8: Board […]
February 20, 2011 by Betsy Bird
I was incredibly sorry to hear that Perry Moore, the producer of the Narnia films and the YA author of Hero was found dead recently. Perry was really just the sweetest guy, the few times I met with him. We speak of people being warm, but Perry really was. There was nothing “Hollywood” about him […]
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