
100 Scope Notes
August 14, 2011 by Betsy Bird
We begin this week with something extraordinary. A book trailer that looks like a movie trailer (no real surprises there) but that includes so many specific details to its book that you’re half inclined to think that the movie version already exists. Super 8‘s actor Joel Courtney stars in trailer for The Dragon’s Tooth by […]
May 18, 2011 by Betsy Bird
Come gather round me children and hear the tale I tell. Cute goose, right? Well I don’t usually recount stories from my workplace, it being all marbley and imposing and such, but this is a good story. It involves a goose rescue mission, Long Island City, and Brian Selznick, not necessarily in that order. I […]
November 28, 2010 by Betsy Bird
I may have mentioned in my National Book Award post that Jon Scieszka presented an award to Joan Ganz Cooney with the help of none other than Elmo himself. Well, thanks to the quick thinking of Rocco Staino, we have evidence that this event did indeed occur. Behold! It’s Elmo’s/Jon’s World. I’d sing the theme […]
September 27, 2010 by Betsy Bird
Well, kiddos, it’s that time of year again. And what better way to kick it all off than by beginning with the Yahoo! News opinion piece Opinion: There is a time to ban books from school libraries? Once again, Lauren Myracle is the author on trial. Honestly, if you had told me three years ago […]
Politics in Practice
by John Chrastka
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