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Tag: nursery rhymes

September 27, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Cover Reveal! Q&A! Introducing the Upcoming Betsy Bird / Andrea Tsurumi Collaboration: Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme!

I have a brand new picture book out in 2025 so let's talk about it with the artist and editor! We discuss "High Detail Chaos", sneaky weasels, and so much more!

May 26, 2021 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Honey for You, Honey for Me, compiled by Michael Rosen, ill. Chris Riddell

If you are looking for a book chock full of nursery rhymes, both familiar and un, you really can’t go wrong with what Rosen and Riddell have just cooked up.

April 21, 2020 by Betsy Bird

Kittens, Mittens, and Pie: A Dip into The Three Little Kittens with a Barbara McClintock Interview

Today, I offer you a moment of respite from the world in which we live. Please take time to enjoy a discussion of why nursery rhymes are the ultimate earworms, the power of pie in any narrative, and the inescapable influence of Top Cat on the children's literary field.

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Review of the Day: Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! by Patricia C. McKissack, ill. Brian Pinkney

July 26, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhood By Patricia McKissack Illustrated by Brian Pinkney Schwartz & Wade (an imprint of Penguin Random House) $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-87088-0 All ages On shelves now. Would you like to know the last film Orson Welles […]

31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Three – 2016 Great Nursery Rhymes

December 3, 2016 by Betsy Bird

It’s strange to think that Nursery Rhymes prove so difficult to round-up.  I’ve done my best.  After all, the art of the nursery rhyme is nothing to scoff at.  There’s a reason they’ve kicked around all these centuries.  Reading nursery rhymes to small children does wonders for brain development, to say nothing of the fact […]

Review of the Day: A Great Big Cuddle by Michael Rosen

December 16, 2015 by Betsy Bird

A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young By Michael Rosen Illustrated by Chris Riddell Candlewick Press $19.99 ISBN: 978076368116 Ages 0-4 On shelves now. Did you know that, generally speaking, Europeans have absolutely no interest in the works of Dr. Seuss? It’s true. For years his works have been untranslatable (though great inroads […]

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Review of the Day: Over the Hills and Far Away collected by Elizabeth Hammill

January 20, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Collected by Elizabeth Hammill Illustrations by Various Candlewick Press $21.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7729-9 Ages : All On shelves March 10th Not all nursery rhyme collections are created equal. That is something you discover when you have small children. A parent, even a children’s librarian type […]

Review of the Day: Nursery Rhyme Comics edited by Chris Duffy

October 10, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Nursery Rhyme Comics Edited by Chris Duffy Introduction by Leonard S. Marcus $18.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-600-8 Ages 9-12 On shelves October 11, 2011 Nursery rhymes. What’s up with that? (I feel like a stand up comedian when I put it that way). They’re ubiquitous but nonsensical. Culturally relevant but often of unknown origins. Children’s literary scholar […]

Video Sunday: “And to prove it she bisected three young tourists from Utrecht”

May 1, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Can’t tell you my relief when I realized that this was entirely on-topic.  I have Educating Alice to thank for this.  I listened to the video first and found myself thinking, “That sounds like Neil Gaiman.”  And then, “That singing voice sounds, in fact, PRECISELY like Neil Gaiman.”  Well, it is.  The creator of this […]

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