Tag: Miss Nelson is Missing!

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 […]

April 5, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation!

Days like today exist to remind you that spring is not summer. Here in Evanston it is wet and rainy and altogether cool and unpleasant. Think then of the folks in Bologna right now. Sunny. Warmer. Full of gelato. *sigh* With that in mind, here’s a Fusenews that is occasionally drenched in a bit of […]

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 […]