A Fuse
Betsy Bird on the state of women in kids' books, with stellar titles on girls who run the world.
It's been quite a year. Here's how we covered it in School Library Journal.
With the state of gun violence, we adults are freaked out, as we should be. But for children, the fantasy of having a gun is the fantasy of having power, observes a reader, who comments on a recent post by Betsy Bird.
Travis: Betsy Bird is funny. It only makes sense that she would want to help bring funny into the lives of young readers. Last spring I sat down with Bird at the Evanston, IL public library to talk about her all-female humor anthology Funny Girl. In this episode Betsy shares how it all went down: from […]
“A Fuse #8 Production” has won an Eddie Digital Award as the best blog in the B-to-B category government/public sector/education.
Today we’re going to talk about what happens when your name is so common, it shows up in children’s books willy-nilly without actually having anything to do with YOU. Which is to say, me. I took my name willingly. No parent in their right mind should name a child “Betsy Bird” after all. When I […]
The win strikes a chord of redemption for supporters of the controversial book following a wide-ranging discussion over the main character's prejudiced outlooks.
“Where the Wild Books Are,” an event organized by author/illustrator Etienne Delessert, celebrated international picture books and asked why some of these titles encounter resistance in the United States.
Are you up on your "Fuse #8 TV"? Here's what you may have missed—no better time to binge-watch than the present.
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