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Tag: Grace Lin

April 5, 2021 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin

How about we consider a book with positive portrayals of Asian-American families on our podcast for a change? I snag Grace Lin's first picture book and we talk soup, seeds, and greedy neighbors.

October 11, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: The Owl Who Gives No Hoots

Good morning to you. While I’m off traipsing about the Illinois Library Association conference in bee-auteous Tinley, IL, why don’t you settle down for an informal smattering of Fusenews.  Good for what ails ya.   ok, let’s talk about Dr. Seuss says Grace Lin.  Ms. Lin faced the full wrath of the masses when she […]

August 20, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday: Don’t feed the plants

Happy Day Before the Eclipse! We’ve a couple interesting videos to peruse today, so take your pick! First off, two recent ones from the live feed show I do with the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop. The first is a bit of an aberration since it involves me being interviewed, not the other way around. The lure? […]

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Walking and Talking with . . . Grace Lin!

November 28, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Steve Sheinkin is back with his beloved series!  If you’re unfamiliar with it, Steve has a conversation with an author of books for kids or teens and then plucks from it the best parts.  So in spite of the fact that he has a brand new book out in early 2017 (Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and […]

Video Sunday: “A man sits . . . in a setting . . .”

March 20, 2016 by Betsy Bird

You know that nightmare you have where you’re up on a stage and you suddenly realize you have to give a TED talk but you have absolutely no idea what the subject is and you’re pretty sure you don’t have the little remote that’ll allow you to flip between slides anyway?  That one?  You don’t […]

Video Sunday: Wind’s in the East . . .

January 3, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Fun stuff.  Looks a lot like Harry Potter to a certain extent (mood, lighting, music, etc.).  It’s the trailer for Roald Dahl’s The BFG. Thanks to 100 Scope Notes for the link! A bit of an older video here.  In my travels recently I discovered that the entirety of the Oliver Jeffers short film version […]

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Review of the Day: Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin

June 29, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Starry River of the Sky By Grace Lin Little, Brown and Company $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-316-12595-6 Ages 9-12 On shelves October 2, 2012 I remember when Grace Lin first started writing chapter books for kids. She’d been doing picture books (mostly for others) for years and when at last she started creating small semi-fictionalized memoirs based […]

Top 100 Children’s Novels #72: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

May 19, 2012 by Betsy Bird

#72 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (2009) 27 points The first book that I’ve read in ages that I know I’ll read again and again. Simply lovely. – Pam Coughlan The individual episodes are lovely in themselves, and it’s marvelous to watch them all come together. And I have to admit, […]

Fusenews: When “going green” is a bad thing

January 5, 2012 by Betsy Bird

The last time I did a Fusenews was more than a week ago.  As such my links all seem a bit out of date.  Ah well.  Let’s have fun with a partially abbreviated Fusenews today then.  However, to begin . . . Sometimes it feels like we always lose some of the best ones at […]

Librarian Preview: Little Brown and Company (Fall 2011 – Winter 2012)

April 23, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Previews, previews!  Lovely little previews! And we find ourselves back at the Yale Club, across the street from Grand Central Station, and a whopping 10 minutes away, on foot, from my library.  There are advantages to living on a tiny island, I tell ya. As per usual, Little Brown pulled out all the stops for […]

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