
Good Comics for Kids
October 1, 2021 by Betsy Bird
It is truly rare to find a book like Much Ado About Baseball where math not only propels the plot forward, but also contains perfectly normal, sportsy characters for whom loving math is just one aspect of their personality. Add in baseball, Shakespeare, magic AND snacks and you’ve got yourself a unicorn of a book.
August 18, 2020 by Betsy Bird
Shimul and editor Paul Crichton presented to me a flurry of offerings Little Bee has coming up. Here then is a quickie smattering of some of the titles they had on offer to show:
August 1, 2019 by Betsy Bird
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando looks like a simple tale about the man who invented instant ramen, but look closer and you’ll see that what the book truly is is a paean to the necessity of failure, the beauty of persistence, and the pleasure that comes after messing up 99 times only to get it right on the 100th.
A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
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