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    Those of You Inclined to Start Working for the George Peabody Library, Say Aye

    Betsy Bird, September 13, 2007 | Uncategorized

    In spite of the fact that the Kidlit Drink Night was scheduled for the first night of Rosh Hashanah, we had a nice turn out at Sweet & Vicious yesterday. Scholastic and Little Brown & Co. (or are you Holtzbrink now?) came out in full force. There was a showing by The Group That Shall […]

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    Violet Quill Posters

    Betsy Bird, September 12, 2007 | Uncategorized

    It’s been wet in NYC for the past few days but that hasn’t kept vigilant students of New York out of the library.  Though there was more than one downpour yesterday, a steady stream of kids came up to the Desk asking for everything from library cards to intelligent works of fantasy.  And every single […]

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    Review of the Day: Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary (Part One)

    Betsy Bird, September 11, 2007 | Reviews

    Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary by Beverly Donofrio Illustrated by Barbara McClintock Schwartz & Wade (a Random House imprint) $16.99 Ages 4-8. I’m way behind on this one.  I got a nice review copy at ALA this year and then *poof*!  It disappears before I can get it home to review.  Ah […]

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    Review of the Day: Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary (Part Two)

    Betsy Bird, September 11, 2007 | Reviews

    (CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Now a more peculiar part of what I liked about this book was the appearance of the mice themselves. Most illustrators avoid accurate representations of mousey feet because they look… well, they look a bit unappealing. With their long soles and tiny toes at the end, mice have really really weird […]

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    Suzukis, Horrifying Clowns, and Meat Glue

    Betsy Bird, September 11, 2007 | Uncategorized

    Adam Rex will be having a contest this week on Ironic Scans.  It’s all so very very simple.  You’ve all read Mr. Rex’s series on Characters In Search of Stories, yes?  Well, all you have to do is make up one of your own, post it in the comment section of Ironic Scans, and Adam […]

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    Review of the Day: Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (Part One)

    Betsy Bird, September 10, 2007 | Reviews

    Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell Illustrations by Jonathan Bean Henry Holt and Company $17.95 Ages 9-12 It’s easy to become jaded. Read enough children’s fiction and it all begins to swim and swirl about in your head. Was that the middle grade novel about a girl who likes a boy with […]

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    Review of the Day: Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (Part Two)

    Betsy Bird, September 10, 2007 | Reviews

    (CONTINUED FROM PART TWO) There are also some convenient plot devices that raised an eyebrow but weren’t really distracting. Apparently when you shrink, your clothes shrink along with you (as opposed to in "The Dark Ground" by Gillian Cross). Also, Jonell requires that you remember some pretty minor characters from the beginning of the book […]

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    Video Sunday: Off-Topic Madness

    Betsy Bird, September 9, 2007 | Videos

    Which is to say, I had a hard time wrangling anything specifically kidlitish this week.  Oh!  There is one exception.  I’m oddly pleased with this little commercial for a Harry Potter video game, if only because it’s not immediately apparant what the ad is for at the start. So sometimes I find myself getting all […]

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    Malicious Grannies, Scottish Pigeons, and Bob Dylan

    Betsy Bird, September 8, 2007 | Uncategorized

    *sigh*  Some of us have to work on Saturdays.  Some of us have to work on Saturdays and do a baby laptime.  I’m not so hot with the babies, I’m afraid.  Toddlers and preschoolers are a piece of cake.  You just get ’em doing the hokey pokey and then enjoy watching them turn in endless […]

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    Oblituary: Madeline L’Engle Has Died at 88

    Betsy Bird, September 7, 2007 | Uncategorized

    From Yahoo News: Author Madeleine L’Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88.  L’Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield of natural causes, according to Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus […]

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