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    Review of the Day: Mars Is by Suzanne Slade

    Betsy Bird, May 4, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Want to instill Mars fever? Then you gotta catch this book.

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    Review of the Day: The Snail With the Right Heart by Maria Popova, ill. Ping Zhu

    Betsy Bird, March 19, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Today we discuss a book that takes risks, makes mistakes, and comes out memorable in the end. The right snail with the right heart in the right book for the right reader.

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    Review of the Day: 13 Ways to Eat a Fly by Sue Heavenrich, ill. David Clark

    Betsy Bird, February 11, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Funny and gross, this book is an honestly inventive way of spelling out how the simultaneously disgusting and delicious (eh?) fly is an integral part in not only the food chain but also the world as we currently know it.

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    Review of the Day: Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan

    Betsy Bird, January 14, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    From what I can tell, this title is going to make a lot of kids into fans of exciting works of history. That is, if they can wrench this book away from their grown-ups. Because if there’s one thing I know, an enticing unsolved mystery is good but a fantastically rendered unsolved mystery is irresistible.

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    31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Nonfiction for Older Readers

    Betsy Bird, December 28, 2020 | 31 Days 31 Lists, Best Books, Best Books of 2020

    A sliver of the magnificent nonfiction for older readers on offer to kids in 2020.

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    31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Nonfiction Picture Books

    Betsy Bird, December 27, 2020 | 31 Days 31 Lists, Best Books, Best Books of 2020

    In some ways, these are the books I'm the most excited about. Welcome to the end of 2020! And welcome to a list of truly wonderful books.

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    Review of the Day: The Talk, edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

    Betsy Bird, October 21, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    Pitch perfect in tone and content, this is supposedly the book that will help all parents talk to their kids. In truth? This also is the book that will help KIDS talk to their parents. It’s a two-way street and everybody’s driving.

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    Review of the Day: Rescuing the Declaration of Independence by Anna Crowley Redding, ill. Edwin Fotheringham

    Betsy Bird, July 9, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    The true story of the man responsible for keeping key American documents out of the hands of the invading British in 1812. A book about the rescue of ideas put to paper.

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    Review of the Day: All of a Sudden and Forever by Chris Barton and Nicole Xu

    Betsy Bird, April 19, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    If we are talking about events that change us all and that we must collectively heal from (whether literally or figuratively) then this book might be precisely what we need. Because this isn’t just a book about something that happened a quarter of a century ago. It’s a book that is meant to help you learn how to heal and recover and hope in the face of the horrendous. Give it a go.

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    A Good Old-Fashioned Nonfiction / Informational Fiction Debate

    Betsy Bird, April 1, 2020 | Uncategorized

    A rip-roaring conversation (with only minimal bloodshed) between myself and author Amy Alznauer about the border between fiction and nonfiction in the realm of children’s books and how carefully it should be guarded.

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