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Tag: Harry Allard

December 5, 2022 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard, ill. James Marshall

A rare case of Kate changing my mind on a book. How have the Stupids aged over the years? Not as well as I had hoped.

May 28, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard and James Marshall

I don’t think I expected to get into an in-depth conversation about Miss Nelson’s cosplay as Viola Swamp, and why precisely she chooses to do so, but that’s the kind of podcast this is. Along the way Kate and I get into what the Wicked Witch of the West might have been wearing under that […]

June 5, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Top 100 Picture Books #29: Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard, illustrated by James Marshall

#29 Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard, illustrated by James Marshall (1977) 56 points Oh, that clever Miss Nelson. She certainly fooled me, and I read this book countless times in childhood trying to figure out just how she pulled it off. Miss Viola Swamp is the best alter ego ever. – Katie Ahearn […]