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Children’s Literature Gems: Choosing and Using Them in Your Library Career


With Betsy Bird’s strong passion for children’s books and the profession, she will help readers and colleagues:

  • Build and manage their children’s collection.
  • Strike a balance between award winners and classics.
  • Arrange the children’s section to best showcase and display books.
  • Review the basics of storytime, storytelling and booktalking.
  • Add the 100 children’s books that belong in every library.

 

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ABOUT

Betsy Bird is a senior children’s librarian with New York Public Library’s Children’s Center at 42nd Street. She runs the children’s literary blog A Fuse #8 Production on the “School Library Journal” website. Bird has written articles for “Horn Book Magazine” and currently reviews for “Kirkus.” In 2004 she earned her master’s in Library and Information Science at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minn.

WILD THINGS: ACTS OF MISCHIEF IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
By Betsy Bird


PRAISE

“Master the huge array of quality children’s books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children’s librarian Elizabeth Bird.”
—Amazon

ISBN-13: 9780838909959 / 136 pages
ISBN-10: 0838909957

    Ages: 14–up
    Publisher: ALA Editions
    Author’s agent: Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management

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    Behind The Scenes with Betsy!

    LOREM IPSUM DUMMY COPY This book was created in large part because of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Folks sometimes forget that when the first Jeff Kinney book came out, it was only a mild hit. It was after the second book hit the stands that the kids discovered the series… and went wild for it.

    I had kids coming into my children’s library all the time, demanding something similar. It was a tricky proposition but I had a fair number of books I could recommend. I always tried to include some female funny creators along with the men. Then I started wishing I could just hand over a book with a LOT of hilarious women collected. That book had to exist, right? Turns out, nope!

     

    Reader Stories

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    A young girl chalks a brilliant rainbow on the sidewalk. The author and a reader share a selfie with big smiles.

     

    Awards & Accolades

    A Junior Library Guild Selection
    One of Publisher Weekly’s Best Summer Books

     

    Educator Resources

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    Pepper jack cheesy feet cheese triangles. Jarlsberg macaroni cheese edam cow danish fontina manchego manchego edam. Who moved my cheese blue castello jarlsberg cut the cheese stinking bishop pepper jack the big cheese cheese and biscuits. Smelly cheese bavarian bergkase feta lancashire mozzarella brie queso cut the cheese. Cheddar cheese triangles.