Malicious Grannies, Scottish Pigeons, and Bob Dylan
*sigh* Some of us have to work on Saturdays. Some of us have to work on Saturdays and do a baby laptime. I’m not so hot with the babies, I’m afraid. Toddlers and preschoolers are a piece of cake. You just get ’em doing the hokey pokey and then enjoy watching them turn in endless circles. Babies are another matter entirely. They’re not so much with the fine motor control. As I do a couple renditions of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, why don’t you enjoy the following tidbits:
- Maybe it could be accused of falling too squarely into the camp of Picture Books That May Only Amuse Adults, but look at this cover and title and tell me you don’t wanna read this book:
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I love that good grannies have round glasses and bad grannies have square. As it happens, you can win yourself a copy of this title via the a neat little Good Granny/Bad Granny contest. Give it a gander and enter as you will.
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Sarah Miller thinks it would be a good idea if we convinced Oprah to do more children’s books in her Book Club. I agree. How do to so? Tell her. Maybe we should all come up with a single title and drown her in it.
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Mo has some pics up of his pigeon, albeit one that underwent a gender swap and a change of nationality. I’m now going to imagine someone yelling, "LET ME DRIVE THE BUS!!!" with a Scottish lilt. Aaaaaaaah.
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Your Neighborhood Librarian presents yet another edition of Best Children’s Books for Hipsters.
- My favorite St. Paul Children’s Bookstore? The Red Balloon. So hear what they’re up to from the PW Children’s Bookshelf: "Minnesota Public Radio and the Red Balloon Bookshop will stage a children’s books event on Sunday, October 14 at 2 p.m. Newbery Reader’s Theatre features four Newbery Medalists—Sharon Creech, Kate DiCamillo, Karen Hesse and Katherine Paterson—who will read from their works and answer questions from the audience. The event will be hosted by Minnesota Public Radio’s Cathy Wurzer and will take place at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, home of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $7.50 for children 16 and under, and are available for purchase at Red Balloon, at the Fitzgerald Theater, and through Ticketmaster. A portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to a charity chosen by the authors."
- I get the podcast edition of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, so I’ve only just now heard last week-ends show featuring special guest Judy Blume. Very interesting stuff. I had no idea that she updated the mimeograph machine in one of the Fudge books. They mentioned at the end that Judy also had a new blog, and lo and behold she does indeed. There isn’t a comment function, sadly, but it seems pretty nice anyway.
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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 Kirkus, 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 BlueSky at: @fuse8.bsky.social
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Do you ever get a day off from the library AND the blog? Video Sundays, Labor Day recommendations, babies on Saturdays…. I like you and all, but cripes! (Thanks for the link, BTW.)
Day off from the library and the blog? Heck no. To be fair, though, it looks like more work than it actually is. Half this stuff is done days in advance. As Gob Bluth would say, “It’s an illusion.”
I feel your pain about babytime-older kids who respond are way more fun.
Also stuck working today but I just had preschool storytime not babytime. However I do a mean Itsy Bitsy Spider and Pat A Cake when our babytimes starts up again in October.
I’m working too-we had a Magic Tree House program this afternoon (went well!)