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Tag: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

April 11, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature

Welcome to a series I like to produce on the regular. "Unexpected Jolts of Children's Literature" is what happens when an adult book discusses children's literature in some manner.

August 2, 2021 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature: Now Extra Jolty!

Today we consider the books written for adults that have some sort of link, however tangential, to children's literature.

October 20, 2020 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature

Periodically I will notice, note, and eventually post about books for adults that have some tangential (or even overt) relationship to children's literature. Today's the day!

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Fusenews: Though I See The Pigeon as More of a King George Type

August 2, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Here’s the thing about Minh Lê. He doesn’t blog terribly often, but when it does it just sort of explodes like an atom bomb on the scene.  His Hamilton starring Elephant and Piggie . . . sheer brilliance.  I’m just mad I didn’t think of it myself (not that I could ever have paired the […]

Fusenews: Reader’s Advisory – Not Just for Librarians Anymore

December 7, 2015 by Betsy Bird

In my current job I’ve become somewhat fascinated with what could easily be considered the key tool in a librarian’s toolbelt: Reader’s Advisory.  Patron asks you to recommend a book based on a set of preferences and you knock it out of the park.  That’s our job and we do it well.  Booksellers do it […]

Top 100 Children's Novels #5: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

June 21, 2012 by Betsy Bird

#5 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950) 204 points The book that made me a reader, by a writer whose pure enthusiasm for life and story carries you on a lion’s back through the best of adventures. – Susan Van Metre I remember at my vast old age in 7th […]

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Video Sunday: Hey, you like Turkish Delight as much as I do

May 15, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Oh, wow.  Just . . . wow.  Some of you may already be aware of the Boogie Woogie blog, run by author/illustrator Aaron Zenz and his three kids.  The fact that it may be the best blog out there in which kids participate in the discussion of children’s literature is evidenced by nothing so much […]

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