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Tag: Laini Taylor

August 17, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Science Fiction Double Feature: A Dual Interview with Laini Taylor and Jim Di Bartolo About BILLIE BLASTER, the New Comic

Power couple Laini Taylor and Jim Di Bartolo discuss their first middle grade graphic novel created together, as well as the state of science fiction in children's books today.

August 14, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday: Dragons and Dragon Teeth

We begin this week with something extraordinary.  A book trailer that looks like a movie trailer (no real surprises there) but that includes so many specific details to its book that you’re half inclined to think that the movie version already exists.  Super 8‘s actor Joel Courtney stars in trailer for The Dragon’s Tooth by […]

May 19, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Sifting the Nifty

From sopping wet New York City here is your philosophical question of the day: If April showers bring May flowers, what the heck do May showers bring?  Ponder that while I hand you a piping hot plate o’ Fusenews. My library branch is turning 100 next week (you may have noticed the pretty New Yorker […]

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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 […]

Fusenews: King Friday the XIII gave the rehearsal dinner speech

June 23, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Things that I have difficulty understanding: The rules of soccer.  How to work an f-stop on a camera (or what it even means).  The French language.  The fact that actors Patton Oswalt and Tunde Adebimpe appear to be in a movie that is filming right now and is going by the title . . . […]

Review of the Day – Dreamdark: Silksinger by Laini Taylor

December 26, 2009 by Betsy Bird

Dreamdark: Silksinger By Laini Taylor Illustrated by Jim Di Bartolo G.P. Putnam’s Sons (a division of Penguin) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0-399-24631-9 Ages 10 and up On shelves now. There was a boy. He came into my library branch. Couldn’t have been more than ten years of age. A good kid. He knew to come up to […]

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