Sometimes You Just Can’t Steal A Fellow Blogger’s Post
Particularly when they’re better at reporting on something than you are. Flee me and go read the Big A little a piece on England’s brand spanking new British Children’s Laureate. I can’t imagine a person in the world who’d be displeased that the winner is (dum dum da dum!) Michael Rosen. His Sad Book is a masterpiece while his We’re Going on a Bear Hunt saved my life during Preschool Story Time yesterday. Talk about range, eh?
Why am I sad that I can’t post pictures on this site quite yet? Because you can bet your sweet bippy I would have begun this post with the photograph found at the bottom of his website. Scroll down until you see it and then tell me that wouldn’t have killed.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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Hey, Fuse, looking good over here 🙂
I continue to think that maybe the Sad Book ought to be shelved with adult nonfic… it’s so beautiful, but every time I see it plonked in beside the likes of Chris Raschka (however ya spell that guy) I kind of wince.
Maybe a spine label coding things as ‘difficult themes’ or something – what’s Donnell’s take on it? It’s just so jarring when someone picks up Sad Book or Not in Room 204 not knowing what those books are about.
Actually “The Sad Book”, for whatever reason, keeps disappearing from the shelf. It’s not that someone goes about stealing it or anything. You just can never find it when you need it. Frustrating because we get A LOT of people asking for death books. Bibliotherapy, for better or for worse, is very big in New York. We put it in with the picture books too, but it probably belongs in either our Parenting section or alongside our “issue” books.