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November 3, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Too bad his duck is so crazy

November 3, 2010 by Betsy Bird   9 comments

I dunno.  Seems pretty coincidental that the man who does all the Harry Potter audio books in England (Stephen Fry) would get into trouble because he tweeted some HP pics without the express permission of Warner Bros.  Then again, England is a mighty small island.  Hey, I know a fun game we can do!  Let’s play six degrees of Harry Potter!  So, um, Stephen Fry was in Wilde with Jude Law who was in A Series of Unfortunate Events with Timothy Spall who plays Wormtail in the Harry Potter movies.  That’s okay, but I bet you can link him even faster than I.  Maybe you could use the Spice Girls Movie or something.  Don’t use Extras, though.  Television shows don’t count.

  • Speaking of tweets, how many of you were aware that Peeta from The Hunger Games has his own twitter feed?  Tis true.  Alongside HalfPintIngalls (who always outdoes herself with the Halloween tweets) there is a dedicated and growing fictional community out there.  Thanks to @molly_oneill for the link.
  • Webcomics. Love ’em or hate ’em, they’re out there (have you seen the great Dracula-related Hark, a Vagrants?).  At least I can appreciate the one called Waiting for Bilbo.  There’s a premise that makes sense to me.  You’ve got your plot, your characters, your end date, all that stuff.
  • We can still milk a couple Halloween links for all they’re worth, right?  I’m thinking specifically of the pictures Alvina Ling posted of the Little Brown costumes.  Everything from Arthur to The Curious Garden to (my personal favorite) the cover of Twilight.  Now THERE is an obvious LB&Co. costume!  Very fun.
  • Monica takes our recent debate about the role of real world facts in fictional books and displays a chart that shows “the continuum between nonfiction and fiction.”  That’s how the teacher types do it.  With charts!
  • New Blog Alert: I would be amiss in missing a missive (all right, enough of that) about the new Horn Book blog.  Tantalizingly named Out of the Box: “An exclusive look at what comes into the Horn Book offices”, the site is the brainchild of editorial and marketing assistant Katie Bircher.  Gotta say, I like what she’s written so far.  I mean, I totally missed that the endpapers of The Baby Goes Beep failed to make the cut in the board book version.  That didn’t stop me from giving it to one of my buddies’ new babies recently though.  I mean, the book’s a hoot.
  • Philip Nel writes, “People once kept commonplace books — personal, portable anthologies of favorite quotations.”  With that in mind, he has posted both his ten favorite quotations and his ten favorite children’s literature quotations.  I would personally have a devil of a time coming up with my own personal list.  How do you even begin?
  • Daily Image:

I think we’ll wrap up today with what must be the world’s most ineffective bookshelf of all time.

Kinda blows your mind, don’t it?  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. david e says

    November 3, 2010 at 4:52 am

    am i missing something, ms fuse? are you quoting tim eagn’s dodsworth? and if so… why?

    • Elizabeth Bird says

      November 3, 2010 at 11:14 am

      I am indeed, David. But it requires you to follow the commonplace book link. I make my readers work for my references!

      And sorry about the missing link, Monica. Apparently my brain has a hard time remembering to put more than one in any given post. Whoops!

  2. Monica Edinger says

    November 3, 2010 at 8:43 am

    Thanks so much for mentioning my chart. The link is: http://medinger.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/telling-the-reality-behind-fiction/

    And, David, I’m guessing the answer is yes! One of my favorite early reader series.

  3. Cindy says

    November 3, 2010 at 12:10 pm

    Stephen Fry was in Peter’s Friends with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson and Imelda Staunton, who’ve all been in one or another Potter movie.

  4. rams says

    November 4, 2010 at 9:29 am

    Cindy’s point makes me realize that Hugh Laurie was the other now-big name in that movie, but no Harry P for him. Hmmmm….. Who should he have played? Lupin, maybe?

    • Elizabeth Bird says

      November 4, 2010 at 11:41 am

      He would have made a superb Lupin, I agree. The thing you always hear about Lupin is that he looks exhausted. Laurie could look perpetually exhausted with very little effort. And thanks to his work on House we don’t have to go far to imagine his dilapidated state.

  5. david e says

    November 4, 2010 at 11:55 am

    ah, i see what i did. i thought i clicked the link, but it was the regular list and not the children’s-only list, and that’s how i missed the connection with the quote. i figured it had to be me.

    that crazy duck!

  6. Terry Doherty says

    November 4, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    Thanks for the link to Out of the Box! I had missed that one. Love the idea of book characters becoming tweeters … gotta believe someone out there is already thinking Wiki!

  7. :paula says

    November 4, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    Any British actor can usually be linked through Gosford Park. The cast of that movie was enormous, and I always forget – oh yeah! Clive Owen AND Stephen Fry AND Lord Cutler Becket from Pirates of the Caribbean AND Derek Jacobi AND Richard E. Grant AND Helen Mirren… and both Dumbledore (mark II) and McGonagle. Michael Gambon gets killed in that movie too, come to think of it!

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