100 Scope Notes
April 30, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Dead End in Norvelt By Jack Gantos Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-374-37993-3 Ages 10-14 On shelves September 13, 2011 What makes Jack Gantos tick? It’s a question that haunts every book he writes, from the simplest Rotten Ralph to his own YA autobiography Hole in My Life. It’s a […]
April 29, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Yes, I feel like an utterly lazy little bum with these incessant press releases rather than real blogging. But my doggone evenings are just too exciting these days! Blame the waning days of my non-mommyhood. I promise that next week I’ll make it up to you tenfold. In the meantime, howzabout coming on by my […]
April 28, 2011 by Betsy Bird
From LitWorld we get the following: Throughout the world, 774 million people are illliterate, and 2/3 of that number are women. Because of this, one of our biggest programs is our LitWorld Girls Clubs for Literacy, a reading and writing program that empowers young women to tap into their extraordinary strengths and meet their personal […]
April 27, 2011 by Betsy Bird
“In 1986, two artists – one Russian, one American – joined forces, against the odds, to tell a brand-new kind of picture story.” Back in February it was in all the news. Publishers Weekly proclaimed loud and long, Children’s Imprint from McSweeney’s to Launch in May. For some this didn’t seem a huge surprise. McSweeney’s […]
April 26, 2011 by Betsy Bird
I feel like the White Rabbit here. No time, no time! We’ll have to do this round-up of Fusenews in a quick quick fashion then. Forgive the brevity! It may be the soul of wit but it is really not my preferred strength. In brief, then! First, I want this book to exist: Dean Trippe, […]
April 25, 2011 by Betsy Bird
My Side of the Car By Kate Feiffer Illustrated by Jules Feiffer Candlewick Press $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-4405-5 Ages 4-8 On shelves April 26th. Reality is subjective. You learn this when you have children of your own. What may be glaringly obvious to a parent will pass right over a six-year-old’s head (and vice-versa). To a […]
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April 24, 2011 by Betsy Bird
My thinking on the matter is that if you can’t have baby rabbits in cups on Easter then when the heck can you have them? Thanks to mom for the link. So! It’s yet another on and off cloudy day here in NYC, but we’re heartened by the rise in temperatures from windy cold to […]
April 23, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Previews, previews! Lovely little previews! And we find ourselves back at the Yale Club, across the street from Grand Central Station, and a whopping 10 minutes away, on foot, from my library. There are advantages to living on a tiny island, I tell ya. As per usual, Little Brown pulled out all the stops for […]
April 22, 2011 by Betsy Bird
There’s a baby on my horizon. A big beautiful time-consuming baby (helloooo, new blogging thrice a week schedule). With that in mind it’s time for . . . YET ANOTHER FUSE #8 PRODUCTION POLL!!! Yeah. I’m not sure exactly when I will have said poll what with the aforementioned Bird spawn, but it’s going to […]
April 21, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Sidekicks By Dan Santat Arthur A. Levine (an imprint of Scholastic) $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-439-29811-7 Ages 8-12 On shelves July 1, 2011 When I was a kid I got to read comics that I had no business putting my grubby little hands on. You see my grandmother had carefully left all my dad’s old Superman, Superboy, […]
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