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    Fusenews: Let the wild (mind the gap) rumpus start!

    Betsy Bird, January 30, 2014 | Fusenews

    Sometimes I do a little ALA Youth Media Awards wrap-up after all is said and done, but since Lori Ess and I were able to have our say immediately following the awards announcements, I feel like I’ve covered my bases.  Moving on! Lest one be so caught up in the thrilling hullabaloo of the ALA […]

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    2014 Kids of Color: Things Are Looking Up

    Betsy Bird, December 23, 2013 | Uncategorized

    You know why I’m looking forward to 2014?  It’s not the fresh start that comes with every turn of the globe.  It’s not the incipient birth of my second child (I lie . . . it is that, but for the purposes of this piece we’re going to pretend that it’s not).  It’s not the […]

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    Fusenews: Nailed It!

    Betsy Bird, December 10, 2013 | Fusenews

    Don’t you hate it when you’ve saved oodles of links for a Fusenews only to find your computer apparently ate them without informing you?  Fun times.  So if I promised some of you that I’d post something and then I didn’t, remind me of the fact.  Clearly me brain is running on fumes. Stop.  Before […]

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    Fusenews: I ain’t too proud to beg

    Betsy Bird, November 26, 2013 | Fusenews

    Happy Tuesday to you, one and all!  Hope your weather isn’t as bitingly cold as ours has been.  Time to warm up with some fresh and festive children’s literature tidbits.  Personally, I’m trying to figure out why I wrote today’s headline a couple days ago.  I’m sure there was a reason for it.  Hmmm. The […]

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    Fusenews: Berries of new, cots of Cal.

    Betsy Bird, September 11, 2013 | Fusenews

    Today I shall begin by ripping out your heart and stomping it into tiny shreds upon the floor.  You may be aware that for years I have worked with the real Winnie-the-Pooh toys at NYPL.  You may also know that the real Christopher Robin had a serious falling out with his father about the books.  […]

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    The NYPL Exhibit You Won’t Hear as Much About

    Betsy Bird, August 9, 2013 | Uncategorized

    All the talk in the press and the news recently has concentrated on New York Public Library’s current children’s literary exhibit The ABC of It, as curated by Leonard Marcus.  It is, justifiably, remarkable.  But exit the exhibit and you’ll find that it’s not the only children’s literary piece going on in the library at […]

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    Fusenews: Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face!

    Betsy Bird, August 1, 2013 | Fusenews

    Fusenews Fusenews Fusey Oozy Fusenews Fusenews Fusenews Eat it up . . . . YUM!* Oh we are high spirits here in New York now that the weather has cooled down a tad.  So let’s keep the party going strong.  It’s news time! Undoubtedly many of you encountered the recent New York Times article “I’m […]

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    Fusenews: Et tu, Mike Inkpen?

    Betsy Bird, July 24, 2013 | Fusenews

    New Blog Alert: There’s a CCBC blog.  Did you know that?  I didn’t know that.  I am, of course, perfectly aware that only a good 15% of my readers instantly can call to mind what CCBC even stands for.  It’s the Cooperative Children’s Book Center and for years I’ve followed ccbc-net, their listserv.  I must […]

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    Fusenews: A little moly with your holy, miss?

    Betsy Bird, July 16, 2013 | Fusenews

    Well a tip of the hat and an apology to Mr. Schu.  Looks like he in the guise of Babymouse came to visit me at The Children’s Center at 42nd Street located in the main branch of NYPL.  Alas, I am no longer in that location, having been picked up and dropped off in Long […]

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    Fusenews: Honest Toddlers and Awesome Amish

    Betsy Bird, May 16, 2013 | Fusenews

    First off, I have to suspect that after this week my blogging stats will be fairly healthy.  First I wondered whither the 2013 middle grade black boys and then Sophie Blackall let me become the repository for some truly fantastic stories.  Doubling back to that question about diversity in 2013 middle grades, author Varian Johnson […]

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