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Betsy Bird

Evanston, New York
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Publisher Spotlight (Fall-Winter 2026): Floris Books, Gecko Press, Helvetiq, & Kube Publishing

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By Betsy Bird
| Fuse 8 n' Kate
This is a particularly choice batch of upcoming books today, folks. Lots of translations, certainly, but also some fascinating artist styles and risks. Thanks once again to Ellen Myrick and Publisher Spotlight for showing some of these to me: The Polar Bear Day by Park Jihee ISBN: 9781782509776 Publication Date: October 6, 2026 Tis a good year for wordless picture books (called “silent picture books” overseas), and this one has ways of standing out.
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Review of the Day: The Ribbon by Tessa Blackham

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By Betsy Bird
| Fuse 8 n' Kate
The Ribbon By Tessa Blackham Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $19.99 ISBN: 9781665971683 Ages 3-6 On shelves September 29th When I was a child I didn’t read a lot of nonfiction. Not because I disliked the genre or anything, but because I lived in the 1980s. Nonfiction? A rarity on children’s bookshelves. But there were exceptions, as there are always exceptions, and one of them was a book called A Very Young Dancer by Jill Krementz.
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If Margaret Wise Brown Gets a Movie, Why Not Others? A Suggested List for Cinematic Splendor

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By Betsy Bird
| Fuse 8 n' Kate
By now you may have heard that a film based on the Leonard Marcus biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon is currently in the works. So far director Rebecca Miller has attached two stars: Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore. Initially, upon hearing this, I thought that maybe Elle would play Brown and Moore would play a slightly different Moore: The librarian Anne Carroll Moore.
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