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March 2, 2021 by Betsy Bird

“The possibility of a generous frugality”: Re-releasing M.B. Goffstein – An Interview with Susan Barba

Editor Susan Barba discusses the "paradoxically pleasurable parsimoniousness" of author/illustrator M.B. Goffstein, on the re-release of two of her works.

June 2, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: May Contain Comic Seriousness

Hey there, hi there, ho there, mouseketeers! Ain’t the weather lovely out there? Ain’t the politics insane? Don’t you want to forget about it for a second or two and indulge in some children’s literature news? Well now you can! I’ve some interesting tidbits for your consumption. Behold the following: I don’t know about […]

May 22, 2017 by Betsy Bird

THEY’RE ALIIIIIIIIVE! 2017 Out-of-Print Books Back From the Dead

I like too many things. It’s beginning to get suspicious. One day I might write a post about the necessity of world literature on our children’s bookshelves. The next day I turn around and start beating the drum for small publishers. Blink again and it is imperative that I talk to you about the importance […]

Back In Print: A Newbery Honor Winner Returns From the Dead

March 21, 2017 by Betsy Bird

Let me do a little math here. If I got my library degree in 2003 and was in school in 2002 then I must have first laid eyes on The Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry fifteen years ago. I was in a transitional point of my career. Having taken a year of library […]

Beyond a Snowy Day: Out-of-Print African-American Children’s Book Classics

August 8, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Recently Slate decided to create a “pop-up blog” of sorts with a concentration on children’s literature. They’ve called it nightlight. A good name. We would have also accepted “flashlight under the sheets”. In any case, I was initially worried that this would be another case of writers who have just found themselves to be parents […]

Out-of-Print Diversity

February 11, 2016 by Betsy Bird

There is a perception that we’re all very sophisticated and educated these days, as opposed to the past. That older books for children have a tendency to be racist or contain outdated ideas. Not so. In my *does the math* thirteen years as a children’s librarian I’ve discovered that you can find some real gems […]

Bring It Back! Out-of-Print Crimes Against Humanity: Adios, Oscar

February 27, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Let’s try something a little new. I’m only human. I like to rant and rail about various children’s books being lamentably out-of-print as much as the next guy. But I also acknowledge that in the current publishing state in which we live it is simply not possible to keep all books in print. That said, […]

Fusenews: Hotsy Totsy, Ducky, Spiffy, Etc.

September 10, 2011 by Betsy Bird

When I first became interested in children’s literature I decided that it would be a good idea to teach myself about all the old greats of the picture book world. A good idea, but self-teaching is inherently limited. As such, I’ve missed a lot of folks. For example, until now “Saul Bass” meant nothing to […]

Two Down! One to Go.

July 13, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Back when my blog was an itty bitty little thing, just puttering away on Blogger, I made a little sidebar called BRING IT BACK! Out-of-Print Crimes Against Humanity! (I’m often going for the touchdown in the hyperbole). I must’ve put it up in 2007 or so, and you can look at it now if you […]

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