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November 25, 2020 by Betsy Bird

Librarian Preview: Small Publisher Spotlight (Spring 2021): Part One

A whole new crop of picture books are on the horizon for 2021! Here's a quick scoop of some of them. Which ones will you want to see the most?

August 18, 2020 by Betsy Bird

Library Preview: Little Bee Books (Fall 2020/Spring 2021)

Shimul and editor Paul Crichton presented to me a flurry of offerings Little Bee has coming up. Here then is a quickie smattering of some of the titles they had on offer to show:

January 2, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Librarian Preview: Chronicle Books (Spring 2015)

It’s a new year but the librarian previews just ah-keep on coming.  Generally you’ll read my previews of “The Big Six/Five” (they haven’t really gone down to a proper five yet, but it’s coming).  My heart always belongs to the little guys, though.  The folks who aren’t necessarily located in NYC.  Folks like Chronicle Books, […]

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Librarian Preview: Harper Collins (Spring 2015)

December 19, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Oh, it’s a big one.  A big honking preview, this is.  Yes indeed, folks, Harper Collins is in town and they’ve a mess of good looking books just aching to arrive on your shelves.  Now the last time I attending a preview for HC I was massively pregnant with back pain to match.  This time […]

Librarian Preview: Sourcebooks, National Geographic Kids, Quirk Books, Sterling, NorthSouth, and Running Press Kids (Spring 2015)

November 26, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Recently I had the pleasure of attending the AAP Tri-State Book Buzz for Children’s and Teen Librarians here in NYC.  This is an event where a whole heaping helpful of publishers gather together to do a kind of massive librarian preview for folks like myself.  It’s a mix of big folks (Macmillan, Random House, etc.) […]

Librarian Preview: Little, Brown & Company (Spring 2015)

November 10, 2014 by Betsy Bird

As librarian previews go, Little, Brown’s remain the gold standard. The food, the guests, the layout, the everything. It is the rare preview that leaves you feeling more relaxed that when you entered. Yet such is the case whenever Victoria Stapleton don’s her latest pair of delightful shoes (shown below). And then the editorial stars […]

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Librarian Preview: Harper Collins (Fall 2014)

July 7, 2014 by Betsy Bird

We’re getting into the thick of summer now.  Both the BEA and ALA conferences have come and gone.  Folks are beginning to get a grip on the fall season.  So before we go any further I’m going to provide you with a bit of a sneaky peek at Harper Collins and what all they have […]

Librarian Preview: Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group (Fall 2014)

June 5, 2014 by Betsy Bird

And the hits just keep on coming!  Ain’t no party like a Macmillan party, cause a Macmillan party has superior brownies.  So there I was, HUGELY pregnant with some major back pain attending my penultimate librarian preview in a publisher’s home base (I actually have three more to write up after this, so no worries […]

Librarian Preview: Lerner Books (Fall 2014)

May 27, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Lest we grow complacent in our maternity leave, I’ve quite a few librarian previews just ah-waiting postings.  And what better way to begin than with Lerner Books here?  Everyone’s favorite Minnesotan publisher came to town in the guise of Lindsay Matvick.  We ate pizza.  We talked shop.  We heard about what Lerner has on offer […]

Librarian Preview: Little Brown & Company (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015)

May 6, 2014 by Betsy Bird

*sniff sniff* Smell that?  That’s the smell of Fall 2014, my friends.  Yes yes, I know you thought we’ve only just turned the corner into spring, but we’ve no time for that now.  The future is where it’s at, babies!  And right now the future is all about the fall/winter/spring books.  Such was my thinking […]

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