100 Scope Notes
June 16, 2016 by Betsy Bird
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 […]
November 18, 2014 by Betsy Bird
Recently I’ve grown rather fascinated with the academic children’s collections of the world. The rare book collections in particular. With that in mind, what do you do if you’re an institution that specializes in archived materials, and yet you still want to engage young readers in some capacity? Enter Teaching the untouchable, a great article […]
September 12, 2013 by Betsy Bird
While technically this isn’t a proper press release, I think it’s worth noting. I once conducted a Children’s Literary Salon at NYPL about alternative children’s libraries in New York City. Libraries that are free and open to the public, but you have to know about them. The Children’s Book Council’s library was amongst those included. […]
May 10, 2012 by Betsy Bird
As fancy pants award ceremonies for works of children’s literature go, I’m certain that there are plenty to choose from. Two in particular stand out time and time again. On the one hand you have the Newbery/Caldecott Banquet. Longstanding, stately, a respectable tribute to the greatest picture books and texts written for children, the ceremony […]
August 2, 2011 by Betsy Bird
I was saddened to learn of the death of children’s author Georgess McHargue on Monday, July 18th. It seems that this was a death our community missed and I am sorry for it. Ms. McHargue penned many a fine children’s novel, but my favorite would have to be Stoneflight, a tale of New York City’s […]
Good Comics for Kids
by Brigid Alverson
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