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    Five Questions with Kids Comic Authors: Dan Santat!

    Betsy Bird, May 25, 2015 | Uncategorized

    I’m so pleased to be participating in the Kids Comics Q&A Blog Tour.  Today I’m happy to also announce that our interview is coming to us via the multi-talented Jorge Aguirre and Raphael Rosado (they of the books Giants Beware and this year’s Dragons Beware).  They’re coming over here to chat with a fairly well-known […]

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    The PreGame/PostGame ALA Youth Media Awards Videos and Some Vids From the Winners As Well

    Betsy Bird, February 2, 2015 | Uncategorized

    Hi ho, folks!  And what an exciting morning we had today.  Lori Prince and I had a blast in the SLJ office predicting winners and then discovering how wrong (or occasionally right) we were.  Here’s the PreGame Show, in case you missed it live.  Note how Lori successfully predicts a Newbery combo that was far […]

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    Video Sunday: Sneaky Peeks Edition, Part 2

    Betsy Bird, October 5, 2014 | Videos

    You know, it’s been a while since I showed you some of the fan-freakin’-tastic Wild Things videos we’ve been playing on the old Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature website.  I know some of you haven’t gone over to it lately so I’ll make it easy for you.  Here’s a quickie synopsis of […]

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    Video Sunday: Football players, grateful artists, and tambourine players galore

    Betsy Bird, March 30, 2014 | Videos

    Time to up the bar. Years ago N.D. Wilson made what has to be the most ambitious book trailer created by an author I ever did see (it was for The Ashtown Burials and if you missed it you can watch it here and see what I mean). Now, after copious Florida research trips where […]

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    Video Sunday: “You know what? No. I’m not gonna apologize. That cat was delicious.”

    Betsy Bird, August 11, 2013 | Videos

    We’re a bit booktrailer top heavy this week, but after you see some of the beauties I’ve got lined up I don’t think you’ll mind.  Heck, if nothing else this first one will convince you: Why there is not a national alert to tell us when Dan Santat has created a new book trailer, I’ll […]

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    Name This Boy Band

    Betsy Bird, July 28, 2012 | Uncategorized

    At approximately 9:22 EST on Friday, July 27th I sent the following Tweet to the interwebs: These are the kinds of serious thoughts that course through my brain on a given morning.  I might hear a One Direction song (yes, I’m a 34-year-old mother, what of it?) and think “That song could be a lot […]

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    Video Sunday: The Quibbling Gem

    Betsy Bird, March 11, 2012 | Videos

    It is a well-established fact that a new Dan Santat book trailer is a cause for celebration.  I hadn’t heard of this one before, so this makes for a good introduction.  Could be a good pairing with John Rocco’s Wolf! Wolf! It also makes me wonder why there aren’t more fairytale ninja mash-ups out there.  […]

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    Re-Seussification Project: The Results

    Betsy Bird, March 1, 2012 | Uncategorized

    It was kind of a kooky idea, I admit it.  I’ve seen plenty of sites where artists will reinterpret someone like Maurice Sendak in their own styles.  What I wanted was something a little different.  I wanted to see what would happen if great children’s book illustrators illustrated one another.  If a Lobel illustrated a […]

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    Fusenews: Words, words, wonderful words

    Betsy Bird, August 15, 2011 | Best Books of 2011, Fusenews

    Though I mentioned it yesterday, I was pleased as punch to discover the recent winners of the Society of Illustrator’s Original Art.  The Gold?  It went to a plucky (and very good) little nonfiction title by the name of Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, both written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer.  […]

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    Review of the Day: Sidekicks by Dan Santat

    Betsy Bird, April 21, 2011 | Reviews

    Sidekicks By Dan Santat Arthur A. Levine (an imprint of Scholastic) $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-439-29811-7 Ages 8-12 On shelves July 1, 2011 When I was a kid I got to read comics that I had no business putting my grubby little hands on. You see my grandmother had carefully left all my dad’s old Superman, Superboy, […]

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