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February 29, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Different cultures. Same battlefield.

Happy Leap Day!  Unlike Leap Day William here I have no candy to bestow upon the weeping children of the world, but I do have some keen links.  First and foremost, this old newspaper article (possibly The New York Times) courtesy of Andrew Fairweather.  It’s a little difficult to read here but it says, “THE […]

August 30, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Like a common peasant

They say that there are more children’s book authors and illustrators in Brooklyn than any other city in the nation.  How appropriate then that they should be the ones behind the inaugural Atlantic Avenue Children’s Literature Contest.  The rules are simple: If you have never written a published children’s book then you are eligible.  You […]

March 13, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Warning – May contain fancy dancy footwear

Morning, folks.  Bird here.  Seems this book I’ve written with fellow bloggers Peter Sieruta of Collecting Children’s Books and Jules Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast is in the last stages of completion.  Fun With Copyedits is the name of the game this week, which means that my blogging may suffer a tad here […]

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Fusenews: Woah Nellie!

July 5, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Lightning quiz Fusenews today, folks!  It is one thing to play Nellie Oleson, the much loathed villain of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, in a television show.  It is another thing entirely to write a book about the experience.  And certainly I would not have know that such an event had taken place were it […]

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