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Tag: Philip Pullman

October 8, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children's Literature: You're Covered in Bees!

By night I blog as a children’s literature groupie, but by day I am mild mannered Betsy Bird, Collection Development Manager of Evanston Public Library, responsible for purchasing all the latest books for adults. Odd, no? But while you might be able to take the girl off of the blog you can never truly take […]

September 26, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Properly vicious

There comes a time when I have so much news for a Fusenews that it paralyzes me and rather than write one up I just let my files accrue more and more schtoof until the vicious circle ends with a massive deletion.  Today some of this stuff will strike you as a bit out of […]

July 11, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Because nothing says “birthday” like Barbarsol

First and foremost, hello.  How are you?  Are you having a nice day?  So nice to see you here, but before we go any further I must tell you that you very much need to leave me.  Just for a little while.  As you may have heard, my book with Jules Danielson and Peter Sieruta, […]

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Fusenews: Private jet, please

June 21, 2014 by Betsy Bird

First up, my little sister.  My daughter recently had her third birthday so my sis came up with a craft involving what she calls Do It Yourself Cupcakes. Each cupcake sported a teeny tiny cover of one of my child’s favorite books.  Then we took them to her daycare where she delightedly set about pointing […]

Fusenews: Nailed It!

December 10, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Don’t you hate it when you’ve saved oodles of links for a Fusenews only to find your computer apparently ate them without informing you?  Fun times.  So if I promised some of you that I’d post something and then I didn’t, remind me of the fact.  Clearly me brain is running on fumes. Stop.  Before […]

Fusenews: The P.D. Eastman Influence

November 23, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Hope you all had a marvelous Thanksgiving yesterday!  I had family in town, including my niece and brother-in-law.  Steve, the bro-in-law in question, has a kind of genius for synthesizing down P.D. Eastman books to their most essential lessons.  He’s always objected to Are You My Mother? on the basis that this baby bird is […]

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Top 100 Children's Novels #28: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

June 4, 2012 by Betsy Bird

#28 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1995) 61 points It’s refreshing when children’s literature tackles grand themes and trusts that the reader can handle them. Such is the case with Philip Pullman’s landmark 1995 fantasy. What’s more grand than a meditation on the human soul? But maybe Pullman’s greatest feat was to craft a […]

Video Sunday: Feel Good, Inc.

October 23, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Halloween is on the horizon so Monica Edinger (of Educating Alice n’ such) whipped together a handy dandy little list of recommended spooky 2011 books for the season.  These videos take a bloody long time to make but dude, they are so worth it in the end. Now I should remind you that soon soon […]

Video Sunday: Weirdly supple crystal balls

September 11, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Oh good. Now we have a rallying cry. Bonus.  Thanks to Maureen Johnson for the link. Travis at 100 Scope Notes recently discovered the author video cache to beat all author video caches.  As he puts it “I challenge you to a good ol’ fashioned game of ‘I Bet I Can Find a Video Interview […]

The Secret Past of Phillip Pullman

August 4, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Let this reassure all the authors of children’s books out there.  You can be the greatest writer in the world and still produce middling fare in your early years.  Today’s example is How to Be Cool by Philip Pullman circa 1987.  Perhaps a bit different from The Golden Compass: Step One: Find some hot pink […]

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