Tag: 2016 awards

June 16, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Trotsky, Harriet the Spy, A.A. Milne and More

You know what’s even better than serving on an award committee? Having someone else write about it. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I was on the judging committee for this year’s Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards alongside Chair Joanna Rudge Long and Roxanne Feldman. It was Roxanne who reported on our discussion, and even took […]

May 31, 2016 by Betsy Bird

And How Did You Spend Your Memorial Day Weekend?

Me? I spent it in Vermont. The rolling green hills. The bears and red squirrels and little tiny insects that think your left nostril is a house and home. The lovely company, particularly when you’re deciding the 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners. Yup. Alongside fellow committee members Roxanne Feldman and Joanna Long (she of […]