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May 3, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Children’s Literary Salon: The Art of Enthusiasm

May 3, 2016 by Betsy Bird   5 comments

We’re just hitting it out of the park now.  Fast on the heels of our last Salon with Jeanne Birdsall and N.D. Wilson (info below), this coming Saturday I managed to bring together the three kings of children’s book social media.  Behold!

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If you’d like to watch the discussion live, tune in 2:00 CST here.  And if you live in the area, you simply have to come.  Never before have these three been interviewed at the same time by . . . uh . . me.  Or possibly anyone else (note to self: check if this is true).

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Curious about Travis Jonker’s picture, by the way?  As I recall it was made for him by video and film director Michel Gondry.  You can read Travis’s piece about it here.  John’s is by Dan Santat.  A faithful reader tells me that Colby’s is by Dave Roman.

By the way, did you miss our last Salon last Saturday when Jeanne Birdsall and N.D. Wilson spoke on the topic of how their personal belief systems inform their writing?  Good news!  Not only did I record the, quite frankly, killer talk but the sound quality was a lot better than last time.  Here’s the timeline of the video:

  • At 0:00 Nate is running a bit late but since it was a live feed I wanted to keep folks watching in the loop.
  • At 2:36 Jeanne Birdsall and I have a finger puppet show as we wait for Nate to show up.  I have flashbacks to my sock puppet interview from 8 years ago.
  • At 3:30 the talk begins.
  • And at 12:45 I tilt the screen back a bit so that it doesn’t look like our heads are all scraping the ceiling.

Enjoy!

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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. Yukari M. says

    May 3, 2016 at 8:05 am

    That sounds like a fun Children’s Literary Salon … I really need to remember to watch them live.

    P.S. If I remember correctly, Mr. Sharp’s illustration was done by Dave Roman.

    • Elizabeth Bird says

      May 3, 2016 at 9:46 am

      Hat tip!

  2. Lori H says

    May 3, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    Thank you, Betsy. I really enjoyed this.

  3. fran manushkin says

    May 4, 2016 at 2:39 pm

    Thank you so much for recording these. I was in the South Auditorium the other day and kept looking for you there. Sob….Fran

    • Elizabeth Bird says

      May 4, 2016 at 10:55 pm

      With any luck I’ll haunt it after my death.

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