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Tag: Where the Wild Things Are

July 1, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

To celebrate this podcast being picked up by SLJ, Betsy and Kate tackle Sendak's best known book. Does it deserve its everlasting fame and glory? Find out for yourself! And believe me, there is a special kind of challenge in finding new things to say about this old chestnut.

December 7, 2015 by Betsy Bird

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

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 […]

June 11, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Sweet Uncanny Valley High

Of all the most deserving, least lauded children’s book awards out there, my favorite might be The Phoenix Awards.  “The award, given to a book originally published in the English language, is intended to recognize books of high literary merit. The Phoenix Award is named after the fabled bird who rose from its ashes with […]

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Fusenews: “It’s like a shoe of flesh”

April 21, 2015 by Betsy Bird

Mmm. Vanity straight up. So I never quite know how to post “me stuff” news when it’s particularly nice. On the one hand I could post the link with the typical “I’m not worthy” statement attached, but that always sounds as if I doth protest too much.  Or, I could go the other route, and […]

Fusenews: Properly vicious

September 26, 2014 by Betsy Bird

There comes a time when I have so much news for a Fusenews that it paralyzes me and rather than write one up I just let my files accrue more and more schtoof until the vicious circle ends with a massive deletion.  Today some of this stuff will strike you as a bit out of […]

Top 100 Picture Books #1: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

July 2, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Sign up today and be the first to receive School Library Journal‘s exclusive PDF collecting all of the Top 100 Picture Books posts from Fuse 8’s Betsy Bird. Simply fill out linked form and you will receive an email with a link to download the PDF as soon as it’s published! #1 Where the Wild […]

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Video Sunday: “Not after what those kids did to Pop.”

March 4, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Fun Fact: Remember that Re-Seussification Project I posted?  And how it happened to come out the day before the birthday of the good doctor himself?  Total coincidence.  I had no idea.  At the same time The Lorax has come out in theaters.  Know how I know?  Because every other minute there’s an ad on my […]

Fusenews: “Peppa Pig is likely to fall into American hands”

September 27, 2011 by Betsy Bird

SLJ represent!  Though I could not attend this year’s KidLitCon (the annual conference of children’s and YA bloggers) many others did and they have all posted links to their recaps of the event here.  So while I could not be present, fellow SLJ blogger Liz Burns of Tea Cozy showed up and has a fabulous […]

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