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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

    Betsy Bird, February 28, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    "He is a grown man jealous of a D-O-G." Peggy Rathmann giveth again to us today with the irrepressible Officer Buckle and the adorable Gloria.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George, ill. David Small

    Betsy Bird, February 14, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    President's Day is coming so what better book to do this week than that old Caldecott Award winner So You Want to Be President? Question is: How has it aged in the intervening 21 years?

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli, ill. Paul Yalowitz

    Betsy Bird, February 7, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    "I've got a lot of questions." So says Kate after we consider the Valentine's Day classic (or is it?) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove, ill. Leo and Diane Dillon

    Betsy Bird, January 31, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    In a year of many ALA Award winner "firsts" we look back at a Caldecott Award winner that marked the first time a Black illustrator won the Award two years running. How has it aged? How has it fared? We consider the Dillons' Ashanti to Zulu.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: 2022 Caldecott Contenders

    Betsy Bird, January 17, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate, Newbery / Caldecott Predictions

    Every year I present Kate with three Caldecott contenders. Will our streak of picking winners continue, or will we be defeated in 2022? Find out!

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Let’s Get a Pup, Said Kate by Bob Graham

    Betsy Bird, January 10, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    We discuss inappropriate bidet designs, the first appearance of birth control pills in a picture book, faux Birks, and more from Australia's native son.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester, ill. Lynn Munsinger

    Betsy Bird, January 3, 2022 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    "If your book makes fun of a speech impediment, maybe don't write that book." Many is the school that has used Hooway for Wodney Wat as an anti-bullying text. We show just how twisted that logic really is.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow, ill. Maurice Sendak

    Betsy Bird, December 27, 2021 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    "The Secret Garden meets Donnie Darko". A human-sized, walking on his legs Bunnyman accompanies a young girl and things get weird. We consider one of Sendak's lesser known titles.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May, ill. Denver Gillen

    Betsy Bird, December 24, 2021 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    It's a Christmas miracle! We're talking Rudolph, written by Evanston native Robert L. May. And . . . it rhymes.

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    Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

    Betsy Bird, December 6, 2021 | Fuse 8 n' Kate

    Joseph and the amazingly not technical overcoat is here! We may have missed Hanukkah but we can at least right a great wrong by featuring this Simms Taback beauty.

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