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Betsy Bird, October 4, 2008 | Best Books, Best Books of 2008, Reviews, Reviews 2008
Chains By Laurie Halse Anderson Simon & Schuster $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-4169-6949-5 Ages 10 and up On shelves October 21, 2008 My discovery of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains came at the best possible time. I had recently read and reviewed Steve Sheinkin’s, King George, What Was His Problem?, a book that looks at the stories behind […]
Betsy Bird, October 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Alternate Title: What I Did on My Autumnal Vacation I think I may end up being the Kidlitosphere Conference attendee with the tardiest posts on that topic. Even today I’m not going to get to ’em. Truth be told, I have a manuscript due tomorrow and I don’t want to spend my evening blogging and […]
Betsy Bird, September 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Or: “It is harder to give away a million dollars intelligently than it is to make it.” – Andrew Carnegie (or so I have heard) In which our hero manages to scream at The National Ambassador of Children’s Literature and (in spite of this) has a lovely time in the midst of glitter/glam/short Wild Things. […]
Betsy Bird, September 12, 2008 | Fusenews
Former co-worker Rebecca writes to me and she says that, "the poppleton books are out of print, and i am mad, mad, mad!!! . . . so… do you think you could do one or several blog postings, begging scholastic to bring them back?" I need confirmation on this, STAT! If Poppleton and Friends are out-of-print […]
Betsy Bird, August 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Cause Amazon doesn’t need the help. I mean, it’s a personal choice we all wrestle with, yes? If you’re a children’s literary blogger it’s the simplest thing in the world to link a book to its Amazon page without thinking twice about it. Amazon is big and convenient. The titles you talk about are always there. […]
Betsy Bird, August 14, 2008 | Fusenews
The finalists have been announced for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Here they be: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting by Hugh Brewster with paintings by John Singer Sargent Kids Can Press Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel HarperCollins Publishers Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Scholastic Canada Eye of the Crow: […]
Betsy Bird, July 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Right. Okay. So. V-Blog test 2008 is hereby declared a shaky success with enough foibles and problems to give me good reason to be wary about doing it again anytime soon. Of course there’s that Blogger Conference coming up in September . . . Enough of that. Let’s look at fun photos from the Newbery/Caldecott […]
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature By Leonard S. Marcus Houghton Mifflin $28.00 ISBN: 978-0-395-67407-9 On shelves now This is a review certainly, but it is also a look at how librarians fit within Marcus’s take on the publishing industry, past and present. When you are aware of your […]
Betsy Bird, June 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
All right! Half the year over and it’s time for a new assessing. More books have come out. We haven’t seen the glut of fall titles, but already things are beginning to slot into their respective categories. Let’s see how things have changed since the last time I looked at the books out there and, […]
Betsy Bird, June 14, 2008 | Fusenews
Adorable baby Bird of a niece is sleeping in the room where I normally use the computer that allows me to post images. So consider this an image-free day. No images for you! Children’s book plots are intersecting with reality quite a bit these days. First up it’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers […]
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