Teen Librarian Toolbox
August 2, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Here’s the thing about Minh Lê. He doesn’t blog terribly often, but when it does it just sort of explodes like an atom bomb on the scene. His Hamilton starring Elephant and Piggie . . . sheer brilliance. I’m just mad I didn’t think of it myself (not that I could ever have paired the […]
August 27, 2012 by Betsy Bird
I must apologize to you for falling down on my regular Video Sundays. Saturday night I made the executive decision to rewatch Ghostbusters so as best to ascertain its relative awesomeness. Conclusion: The movie continues to rock. I was surprised to hear that the shots of the Ghostbusters in the stacks of my library were […]
February 23, 2012 by Betsy Bird
“I just finished a poem where St. Francis and St. Clare double-date with Thoreau and Evita and it just makes me very happy.” My mother was the winner of the 2011 Prairie Schooner Book Prize because she is as good as it gets. No brag. Just fact. Prairie Schooner recently interviewed her as well and […]
March 18, 2011 by Betsy Bird
First off, I was a bit amazed that there’s a whole Today Show webpage dedicated solely to the marriage of that English royal guy to that girl with the brown hair (yes, I know their names, but invoking them seems a dangerous game). Then I was even more amazed to see that a children’s book […]
Teen Librarian Toolbox
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