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Elizabeth Bird

Elizabeth Bird is currently a children's librarian at the Children's Center at 42nd Street of the New York Public Library system. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of NYPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. You can email Elizabeth at fusenumber8@gmail.com.



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Review of the Day: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

November 21, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - small.ss_hWhere the Mountain Meets the Moon
By Grace Lin
Little, Brown and Company
$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-316-11427-1
Ages 8-12
On shelves now.


When an author wants to write their first fantasy novel for children, they'll sometimes fall back on the books they themselves loved as kids. If they were Alice in Wonderland fans they might go the route of Neil Gaiman's Cora
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Librarian Preview: Lerner Publishing Group (Spring 2010)

November 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4)

Lerner_LogoThis has been a season of firsts.  I did my first Albert Whitman preview a week or so ago.  I'll be doing my first National Geographic preview in the future.  And I've certainly never done a Lerner Publishing Group preview before!  That's the nice thing about New York.  Even if the publishers ain't local, there's no reason for them not to say howdy when they happen to be in town.

And howdy it was!  Two lovely ladies,
Lindsay Matvick and Terri Reden,...Read More




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2009 WBBT: Friday Schedule

November 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

And all too soon it's over.  Here's the last of the best of the week, my loves.

Lisa Schroeder at Writing & Ruminating
Alan DeNiro at Shaken & Stirred
Joan Holub at Bildungsroman
Pam Bachorz at Mother Reader
Sheba Karim at Finding Wonderland
R.L. LaFevers at Hip Writer Mama

And Chasing Ray has the round-up.




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WBBT: Michael Hague Interview

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (11)

hagueI'm allowed to be a fangirl once in a while, I think.  Now I don't often get a chance to interview an author or illustrator from my own youth.  Inevitably they're either dead or no longer working in the field of children's literature.  But you know, there was one artist around when I was a kid that has stayed in my brain.  The guy who really introduced me firsthand to the works of C.S. Lewis, Kenneth Grahame, J.M. Barrie . . . basically almost every classic I know today.  His name was Michael Hague and to this day the man is s...Read More




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2009 WBBT: Thursday Schedule

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Here's who's on the menu today!

Sy Montgomery Pt 2 at Chasing Ray
Laini Taylor at Shelf Elf
Jim DiBartolo at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Amanda Marrone at Writing & Ruminating
Thomas Randall at Bildungsroman

And Chasing Ray has the round-up.






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