Good Comics for Kids
December 31, 2009 by Betsy Bird
The Magical Ms. Plum By Bonny Becker Illustrated by Amy Portnoy Knopf (an imprint of Random House) $12.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-85637-2 Ages 7-10 On shelves now. Oh, magical grown-ups. You never get old. There is a long and strong tradition of grown-ups with extraordinary powers helping (or hindering) their young charges in the annals of children’s […]
December 31, 2009 by Betsy Bird
You may notice a fair amount of reviews this week. Well, the clock is tick-tick-ticking and I’ve got to get my lazy fingers up and reviewing as much as possible before the anvil falls. That’s what drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, right? An anvil? Wouldn’t know. I tend to spend such evenings […]
December 30, 2009 by Betsy Bird
When it’s Six o’ Clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones By Cynthia Jaynes Omololu Illustrated by Randy DuBurke Clarion Books $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-618-76827-1 Ages 4-8 On shelves now. Arg. Concept books. They’re dangerous dealings. A concept book is meant to have a single purpose: to inform. If they amuse, that’s nice, but […]
December 30, 2009 by Betsy Bird
Do! By Gita Wolf, Ramesh Hengadi, and Shantaram Dhadpe (with help from Rasika Hengadi and Kusum Dhadpe) Tara Books $14.95 ISBN: 978-81-907546-1-3 Ages 3-8 On shelves now Every year almost all the children’s book publishers put out a whole lotta picture book schlock alongside some tiny gems. If you are a librarian, your job is […]
December 29, 2009 by Betsy Bird
The Farwalker’s Quest By Joni Sensel Bloomsbury $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59990-272-2 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. I’ll confess something to you. I’m a children’s librarian who reads a lot of children’s books in a given year. I don’t get a chance to review them all, which is too bad. So my To Be Reviewed shelf in […]
December 28, 2009 by Betsy Bird
As you might have noticed, this week I’m squeezing in a whole bunch of last minute 2009 reviews. Gotta get ’em done before midnight on the 31st, after all. By this point in the proceedings, I’ve read pretty much all the 2009 books I’m going to. A whole mess of titles have already been read […]
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December 28, 2009 by Betsy Bird
Henry in Love By Peter McCarty Balzer and Bray (a Harper Collins imprint) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-114288-8 Ages 4-8 On shelves now Now when I was a little kid I was single-mindedly determined to pair off the world. If I could continually put together two people and marry them off, that was all I wanted out […]
December 27, 2009 by Betsy Bird
The end of the year is nigh upon us and by my calculation we’ve had roughly 52 weeks of Video Sundays in the last 365 days. From these I’m culling the best of the best. The ones that really made me stand up and take notice. Of course, my favorite of all these, the number […]
December 26, 2009 by Betsy Bird
Dreamdark: Silksinger By Laini Taylor Illustrated by Jim Di Bartolo G.P. Putnam’s Sons (a division of Penguin) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0-399-24631-9 Ages 10 and up On shelves now. There was a boy. He came into my library branch. Couldn’t have been more than ten years of age. A good kid. He knew to come up to […]
December 24, 2009 by Betsy Bird
Every year I steadily collect holiday-related blog postings, storing them up until Christmas. Some are great. Some are so-so. But all are wonderfully topical. Enjoy! As with any holiday, it’s always worthwhile to take a trip over to Golden Age Comic Book Stories to see what Mr. Door Tree has up and running. This month […]
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