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Tag: The Witches

December 10, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Nailed It!

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 […]

September 23, 2013 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Blink and you’ll miss it

Hey all!  Before I dive into the oddities of the world in which we live, I just wanted to give a bit of a shout out to two distinct groups that allowed me to sprawl my librarian self all over their respective gatherings.  First up, credit and love to Nancy Castaldo and all the folks […]

May 17, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Top 100 Children’s Novels #81: The Witches by Roald Dahl

#81 The Witches by Roald Dahl (1983) 24 points Now here then is a book that I remember very well from my old childhood.  It’s strange that when kids ask me for books that are scary (but not too scary) that this doesn’t immediately pop into my brain.  It wasn’t just that The Witches had […]

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