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August 7, 2009 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: What I really want to be is a lion tamer!

August 7, 2009 by Betsy Bird   5 comments

I love it when The Onion is bloggable.  If the recent article Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible to Most Loyal of Customers doesn’t make you laugh, the article itself will. And since they decided to do it right, they made sure to end the piece with a four-year-old’s observations. Well played, Onion.

Getting scooped by PW Children’s Bookshelf is par for the course. Those folks are good. It is an honor to simply read what they’ve found. Being scooped by New York magazine, on the other hand? Deplorable. I feel sad that I had no idea that illustrator Sophie Blackall (Wombat Walkabout, the cover of When You Reach Me, etc.) had a blog where she drew illustrations to accompany the New York Craigslist "Missed Connections" section. It also happens to be brilliant.  Thanks to PW Children’s Bookshelf for the link.

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  • The Guardian has a talk with Shaun Tan.  The piece also says that he looks like an accountant.  That’s an almost Monty Pythonesque observation on their part, so we’ll let it slide.


  • It’s in all the news.  That controversial cover of Liar?  Changed!  Which is all well and good, but actually we have not yet seen what it will be changed to.  It will be interesting to see if the new cover has an African-American girl on the cover, or something inanimate.  The answer.  Special Note: Those of you with galleys?  Hold on to them tight.  Those puppies may yet be worth a pretty penny in years to come.  They were, after all, a limited run of an image ne’er to be seen again.


  • A profile worth reading in j. weekly on author/artist Remy Charlip and his recovery from a relatively recent stroke.  Charlip came to renewed prominence recently when Brian Selznick featured the man as the model for a character in his Caldecott Award winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  There is also the extra added feature of a young, rather gorgeous, Charlip accompanying the piece.  Thanks to Tania Granoff for the link.


  • My last Children’s Literary Cafe at NYPL got two nice write-ups recently.  The first was from Publishers Weekly.  The second, the Twilight site Edward-Cullen.net.  As you’ll recall, my last Lit Cafe was a discussion between Melissa Anelli (of the Harry Potter site The Leaky Cauldron) and Laura Byrne-Cristiano (of The Twilight Lexicon) about literary fansites.  In these write-ups the Twilight site makes mention of one fact that I found particularly interesting.  When the discussion turned to Rowling "outing" Dumbledore as gay, Anelli said that in the history of Leaky, no single event has ever garnered more hits.  Ever.  For a while there, you could even Google the word "gay" and come across the Leaky Cauldron on the first page.  Now I only moderated the discussion so neither piece mentions me, but if you want photographic evidence that I was there in some fashion the Edward-Cullen.net site shows me off to the side in the second video.  Thanks to Laura Byrne-Cristiano for the second link.


  • Speaking of Harry Potter, you remember the last movie about him that came out?  It’s all about drugs.  Not beer.  Drugs.  Dude.


  • Daily Image:


Why actually have books when you can buy prints of them instead?  Artist Jane Mount is selling the following image saying, "This set happens to be a grouping of my favorite children’s books; I’ve been more influenced by books I read as a kid than books from any other time in my life."  Mind you, if this artist read Not a Box as a kid then we have a serious youngster on our hands.

The $20.00 8" x 10" prints are sold out, but there appear to be plenty of prints for a mere $50 or $200.  Bet ya never knew how lucrative those thin little slips of books could really be.  Thanks to Swiss Miss for the link.

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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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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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  1. rams says

    August 7, 2009 at 2:33 am

    I’ve got the hat!

  2. Fuse #8 says

    August 7, 2009 at 5:43 am

    I’m ashamed to say that it took me about 5 seconds before I realized you were playing off my own titular reference.

  3. Jules, 7-Imp says

    August 7, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Huh? I had no idea Remy Charlip founded his own children’s theatre (though the article says: “It’s now the oldest operating children’s theater company in the United States” — I was pretty sure the oldest is the Nashville Children’s Theatre?? Might have to get my facts straight) …and HE DIRECTED FOR THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF THE DEAF! Who who who knew? If I knew, I’d forgotten. Wow.

  4. WendieO says

    August 7, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    PW online has a copy of the new cover for Liar. Same pose. Except the girl is pulling the hood of her hoodie tightly across the bottom half of her face. Her curly hair peeks out of the top half. -wendieO

  5. WendieO says

    August 7, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Ah — you found it. Serves me right for not following all of your links before typing a comment. -wO

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