Heavy Medal
May 31, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Me? I spent it in Vermont. The rolling green hills. The bears and red squirrels and little tiny insects that think your left nostril is a house and home. The lovely company, particularly when you’re deciding the 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners. Yup. Alongside fellow committee members Roxanne Feldman and Joanna Long (she of […]
May 28, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Ach. I miss this award. I served on it once and suggested titles for consideration twice. Be sure to check out the honors as well. There are some surprises there that made me really happy. THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2016 CHILDREN’S HISTORY BOOK PRIZE GOES TO PAM MUñOZ RYAN FOR ECHO NEW YORK, […]
May 26, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Next to You: A Book of Adorableness By Lori Haskins Houran Illustrated by Sydney Hanson Albert Whitman & Co. $16.99 ISBN: 9780807556009 Ages 4-7 On shelves now Years ago I saw a very interesting sketch produced during the early years of Disney animated filmmaking. The drawing was an explanation to animators on the precise proportions […]
May 24, 2016 by Betsy Bird
File this one under the category: Stuff Parents Notice But Don’t Discuss You have a child. The child is quite young, let’s say two years of age. The child loves books about tools, ladders, and banjos (and you would be shocked just how many books for kids contain at east one of those three items). […]
May 23, 2016 by Betsy Bird
I’ve done it again. Delayed my Fusenews too long and now this post is going to overflow with too much good stuff. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. Me stuff for the start. And in fact, there just so much Me Stuff today that I’m just going to cram it all into this little paragraph […]
May 20, 2016 by Betsy Bird
King of Kazoo By Norm Feuti Graphix (an imprint of Scholastic) $22.99 ISBN: 978-0545770880 Ages 9-12 On shelves July 26th When I used to run a children’s book club for 9-12 year-olds, I’d regularly let them choose the next book we’d discuss. In time, after some trial and error, I learned that the best way […]
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May 18, 2016 by Betsy Bird
A light smattering of things that caught my eye at BEA. Here’s the thing about Book Expo America. As conferences go it yields less love amongst librarians than our own, beloved American Library Association conferences. And that just makes sense. BEA is about the business side of books. Booksellers are the primary focus and they’re […]
May 16, 2016 by Betsy Bird
I feel like it’s been a long time since I “reported” on anything. It isn’t just the move to the Chicago area. It’s more that subtly over the years I’ve pulled back from the rote typing that I used to engage in so often. Blame Twitter. Blame aging. Blame my left pinkie finger which, even […]
May 13, 2016 by Betsy Bird
As you may or may not know, this past Saturday I conducted a Children’s Literary Salon at my library with panelists Travis Jonker, Mr. Schu, and Colby Sharp. And, as ever, I recorded a live feed of the event. That’s fairly snazzy, but before I post that video here I want to take a moment […]
May 11, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Recently I hosted a Literary Salon where an attendee asked at the end whether or not it was true that Kate DiCamillo deleted every draft she wrote, right after finishing it, so that she could rewrite it again. As it turns out, this isn’t exactly the case, but it did lead a lot of us […]
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