Politics in Practice
March 30, 2017 by Betsy Bird
Bronze and Sunflower By Cao Wenxuan Illustrated by Meilo So Translated by Helen Wang Candlewick Press $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-8816-5 On shelves now It’s odd. Parents these days. I meet so many of them that believe that to live in a globalized society it is imperative for their children to learn another language. That’s not the […]
March 28, 2017 by Betsy Bird
In 2013 I had a crazy notion to list every single children’s literature statue I could think of in a single blog post. I did. It was fun. And now almost four years have gone by and I’ve thought often of the piece. Honestly, I never finished incorporating some of the suggested statues from my […]
March 27, 2017 by Betsy Bird
You’ve got your cover reveals, and then you’ve got your cover reveals. Sometimes I’ll get asked to do a reveal and it’ll be for a book that I already have in my possession. In those cases the book jacket reveal isn’t really all that surprising at all. In some cases I’ll be asked to reveal […]
March 24, 2017 by Betsy Bird
Wolf in the Snow By Matthew Cordell Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1250076366 Ages 4-7 On shelves now It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why it is that I love picture books as much as I do. Putting aside the usual reasons (brain growth, increasing a child’s capacity for wonder, parent/child bonding, […]
March 23, 2017 by Betsy Bird
It is difficult to pin down the first time I became aware of the work of Marc Aronson. The likelihood is that it occurred when I read his books. Or was it his work as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University? How about his support of international […]
March 22, 2017 by Betsy Bird
Some of you may recall that I was given the chance to chair the 2018 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Committee. I am pleased to announce that if your host site would like to feature the speech, now is the time to make that request public. See below. CHICAGO–The Association for Library Service to Children […]
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March 21, 2017 by Betsy Bird
Let me do a little math here. If I got my library degree in 2003 and was in school in 2002 then I must have first laid eyes on The Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry fifteen years ago. I was in a transitional point of my career. Having taken a year of library […]
March 20, 2017 by Betsy Bird
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist By Cynthia Levinson Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-4814-0070-1 Ages 6-10 On shelves now Today I’d like to begin with a small talk about diversity. Not diversity of people necessarily, but diversity […]
March 17, 2017 by Betsy Bird
I’m quick and slick and blogging like a . . . like a . . . like a woman who can’t come up with a third rhyme! Doggone it . . . Look at this guy with this book doing his business like it ain’t no thing. You go, man, go! If you’ve […]
March 15, 2017 by Betsy Bird
Folks, for 9 years now I’ve been doing these goofy little Newbery/Caldecott prediction posts. I get ’em wrong far more often than I get ’em right but they’re fun and I enjoy doing them. March 15th is normally the date of the Spring Prediction Edition, and as tradition states I’m supposed to show you how […]
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