The Yarn
March 31, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Don’t Call Me Grandma By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon Carolrhoda Books (a division of Lerner) $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-4677-4208-5 Ages 4-7 On shelves now. In 2016 a picture book won a Newbery Award. Which is to say, a picture book was declared the best-written work for children between the ages of 0-14. After […]
March 30, 2016 by Betsy Bird
I’m not quite sure what it says about me that whenever I need to have a go-to Children’s Literary Salon I inevitably make it about ethics in nonfiction for kids. I think, technically, I’ve done this topic three times and each time it just gets more and more interesting. Case in point, this past Saturday’s […]
March 29, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Things are ah-brewing and ah-hopping on the child_lit listserv this week! And though my blog is primarily a conduit through which one learns about children’s book news, I couldn’t help but get utterly fascinated by a discussion of origin. Particularly, the origin of the YA novel. Fun with semantics! So what do we mean when […]
March 28, 2016 by Betsy Bird
You may have seen the Guardian article the other day ‘Oh, what a big gun you have’: NRA rewrites fairytales to include firearms. The title pretty much is the whole story, except that these are tales posted on the NRA’s website and not (at this time) actual published books. I was looking at the post […]
March 24, 2016 by Betsy Bird
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons By Julie Fogliano Illustrated by Julie Morstad A Neal Porter Book / Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan) $18.99 ISBN: 9781596438521 Ages 6 and up On shelves now. I don’t think I can adequately stress to you the degree to which I did not want to review this book. […]
March 22, 2016 by Betsy Bird
We’re diving right in today. Check out this killer poster: Now if you’re one of the lucky ducks living in NYC, or will be there on the date of 4/16, you now have your marching orders. This is an event held at Bank Street College of Education and in wracking my brains I can’t think […]
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March 22, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Reprinting PW deal announcements is not what I tend to do. Today, however, we’ve a rather extraordinary occurrence. Some of you may know that my husband Matt Bird is a bit of a blogger and screenwriter in his own right. Add the term “published author” to that description now. Publishers Weekly has just announced Matt’s […]
March 20, 2016 by Betsy Bird
You know that nightmare you have where you’re up on a stage and you suddenly realize you have to give a TED talk but you have absolutely no idea what the subject is and you’re pretty sure you don’t have the little remote that’ll allow you to flip between slides anyway? That one? You don’t […]
March 19, 2016 by Betsy Bird
When I moved to Evanston from New York City I guess I thought my life would calm down a bit. New York City’s all about the publisher previews, the author events, the crazy dinners for big name authors and illustrators, and it is clearly party central. And for the most part Evanston is calm. Quiet. […]
March 16, 2016 by Betsy Bird
What? Who? Now? Yes, if you’re checking the calendar you’ll see that three whole months of 2016 have gone by and you know what that means. Prediction time! But Betsy, you say, that is quite simply the kookiest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s March, for crying out loud. We’ve ten months until the next award […]
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