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Betsy Bird, March 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
As you may have heard, I am part of a rather lovely blog tour of sorts. Not an authorial blog tour. No no, a tour going under the name of Share a Story – Shape a Future. Today’s Topic: A Visit to the Library as hosted by Eva Mitnick at Eva’s Book Addiction blog. Eva […]
Betsy Bird, February 22, 2009 | Videos
I forgot to sacrifice a videotape beneath a bright full moon, so this week the Video Gods were less fruitful than I would have liked. Here’s what I was able to scrounge up. I think Chronicle Books really has a good feel on how a picture book trailer should go. Their vids have a certain […]
Betsy Bird, December 10, 2008 | Fusenews
Y’all know that I am prone to exaggeration. But when I say unto you that the site Austenbook (it tells the story of Pride and Prejudice in terms of Facebook updates) is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I mean it. Sliced bread ain’t got nothing on this site. It had me at "Mrs. Bennet […]
Betsy Bird, December 7, 2008 | Videos
This is a video I sincerely wish I could embed on this blog, because it is without a doubt a magnificent idea. Award winning photographer Eamonn McCabe went about Britain photographing various writers’ studios. You can see the results here, and it’s a delight. Russell Hoban’s is described as "the best room ever" shortly after […]
Betsy Bird, November 25, 2008 | Fusenews
Good old Kalamazoo. Land of my birth. Home of my gawky adolescence. Aside from the fact that I was born in such a Seussian named city, K-zoo related news articles are few and far between to say the least (except for that whole all-the-kids-get-free-college thing). So I was thrilled to death to see that the […]
Betsy Bird, November 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
I was not the only one to become a fan of Frances O’Roark Dowell’s magnificent middle grade novel Shooting the Moon this year. But neither was I under the impression that it was created in a vacuum. Over the years Ms. Dowell has written everything from fun boy-centric early chapter books to mysteries and realistic […]
Betsy Bird, November 12, 2008 | Fusenews
If the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland is good, I do hope it is very very good. And if it bad, I hope it is mind-blowingly, breath-takingly terrible. I’m not talking a train wreck. I’m talking a veritable crater in the ground where two trains used to be. One Dayle McClintock does a lovely […]
Betsy Bird, November 4, 2008 | Fusenews
Note to Self: Upon becoming rich and famous please be so good as to remember that one of the perks of the position is that you get to have your own hidden library, like that of Holly Black. Preferred methods of entrance will have to include a turning bookcase ala "put the candle back" and […]
Betsy Bird, October 8, 2008 | Fusenews
Monster haikus like "Tokyo summer. / Mothra flies into a sign / again and again," may be the official domain of author/illustrator Adam Rex but that’s not going to stop him from holding a Kaiju Haiku Contest! Adults, you are allowed to enter but the magnificent grand prize (and it is pretty magnificent) is going […]
Betsy Bird, October 7, 2008 | Fusenews
”You have to wonder why no one’s made a big-screen adaptation of Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself. I imagine it’s because these stories belong to young women. Real young women, not singing Disney cheerleaders, hair-flipping pop stars, or cartoonish socialites.” So says screenwriter Diablo Cody in a piece about her idol, Judy Blume at […]
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