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Tag: bully books

July 20, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Jawbreaker by Christina Wyman

I dare you to read even two chapters and not be engulfed in the narrative. Smart and savvy, Jawbreaker is the novel you wish you had read as a kid and are grateful that kids get to read today.

January 3, 2022 by Betsy Bird

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

"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.

May 6, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Wolf Hollow By Lauren Wolk Dutton Children’s Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1101994825 Ages 10 and up On shelves now. I am not what you might call a very brave reader. This is probably why I primarily consume children’s literature. I might puff myself up with a defense that lists the […]

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Review of the Day: Ben Rides On by Matt Davies

September 2, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Ben Rides On By Matt Davies A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-794-4 Ages 3-7 On shelves now. The cartoonist as great children’s book author is not a given. Consider the sad case of Berkeley Breathed, for example. He achieved levels of unattainable brilliance when he penned Bloom […]

The Case for Re-Illustration: William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow

November 3, 2012 by Betsy Bird

I had just the loveliest dinner the other night with some high-falutin’ folks in the children’s literary biz.  Fine conversation and finer memories were tossed all about.  Yet I credit the devil on my right shoulder for suggesting to me the relative wisdom of my bringing up a long-standing belief that had been percolating in […]

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