Tag: Trixie Belden

December 14, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Child Completists: The 10-Year-Olds’ Tendency to Track Down the Out-of-Print

When I was ten the kids in my neighborhood started a rather odd obsession. For a time the Trixie Belden series was released with new covers, giving those books from the 50s, 60s, and 70s a kick in the pants. Note how hip and cool these covers were: Awwww, yeah. So the girls on my […]

August 25, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Of gigs and dreck

Comic book bloggers and children’s literature bloggers are two sides of the same coin. Our interests often run parallel. The degree to which the academic world regards us is fairly similar (though admittedly we get to have Norton Anthologies while they are sorely lacking any such distinction). I don’t read my comic book blogs as […]