Betsy Bird Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Sometimes you just want to read a joyful, fun, thoroughly enjoyable contemporary book set in Ghana. And sometimes (though very rarely) the universe provides. I review The Kaya Girl by Mamle Wolo, wishing we got imports like this more often: https://t.co/jsjWWmxlKe https://t.co/M9ds1eDxcF

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Can you imagine the shock of reviewers when Ezra Jack Keats pivoted away from the bright colors of The Snowy Day and Whistle for Willie and presented the rainy day gloom of Apt. 3? On @fuse_kate we explore this atmospheric departure: https://t.co/tUIhZjiOX4 https://t.co/Bi5XWPYs3t

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Day Five! I'm leading up to the cover reveal of my debut MG novel Long Road to the Circus (@KnopfBFYR @randomhousekids) and today we take it down a notch. This is my hero Suzy who would rather be anywhere than where she is. David Small is great at longing: https://t.co/OEAOxxD78T https://t.co/gZtX9Wpkfe

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Kate likes it when I pick out spooky books in October for our podcast. This book... ain't that. We talk about THE ROOM ON THE BROOM from Team Gruffalo (as I like to call them): https://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2021/10/11/fuse-8-n-kate-room-on-the-broom-by-julia-donaldson-ill-axel-scheffler/

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Can you imagine the shock of reviewers when Ezra Jack Keats pivoted away from the bright colors of The Snowy Day and Whistle for Willie and presented the rainy day gloom of Apt. 3? On @fuse_kate we explore this atmospheric departure: https://t.co/tUIhZjiOX4 https://t.co/Bi5XWPYs3t

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Can you imagine pressure on the next book you write after winning a Newbery Award? And then to make one even better than its predecessor? @taekeller writes an almost philosophical treatise on what we owe each other. There are also aliens. I'm a fan: https://afuse8production.slj.com/2022/07/14/review-of-the-day-jennifer-chan-is-not-alone-by-tae-keller/ https://t.co/3URdL3N5kO

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It's cold outside so a story of FOMO and snuggly bear caves seemed to fit the bill for today's book. BONUS CONTENT: A spreadsheet of every single book we've done on the @fuse_kate podcast to date. All 254 of them! https://t.co/jcckYpIeUR

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If I'm jumping on the bandwagon with this book then it's only because it's so doggone good. Today I talk with @dsantat about memoirs, changing mores, and the best flavor of Fanta. In short, all good things. https://t.co/YQZf1Z52qZ https://t.co/vx3EbJkOAN

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For sheer beauty of production (not to mention evocative art and an stellar text and translation) your one-stop shopping is for this new take on Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions. I review: https://afuse8production.slj.com/2022/06/11/review-of-the-day-the-book-of-questions-libro-de-las-preguntas-by-pablo-neruda-ill-paloma-valdivia/ https://t.co/EcoJNBsQJx

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Looking for trouble? Well now you've found it. I interview @SPrineas about her deeply amusing science fiction shape-shifting oddball book TROUBLE IN THE STARS: https://t.co/g6yiIJ11jZ https://t.co/1G9XBbYYhX