Fuse 8 n' Kate
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Fuse 8 n' Kate
Two sisters, one in L.A. and one in NYC, both move to the Chicago area and start a podcast. The premise? Picture books and are they really that great? Join Kate and Fuse 8 (Betsy Bird) as they track down a picture book "classic" each episode and try to determine if it deserves to remain in the cano...
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Episode 391 - The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the first day of my podcast my true love gave to me... Jan Brett!
Yes, we're in the thick of the holiday season now, and what better w...
Episode 390 - Terrific
Having spent ample time in the presence of Jon Agee himself at The Rabbit hOle at the recent Tomi Ungerer Symposium, Betsy determined that we hadn't a...
Episode - The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes
For the first time we are simultaneously recording alongside another podcast. The podcast in question? The Book of Life, which has been in existence f...
Episode 388 - Alligator Arrived with Apples
Oh. Full credit goes to children's book creator Ursula Murray Husted for today's find. You know, we've done a lot of feast-adjacent picture books in c...
Episode 387 - On the Night You Were Born
New General Rule: When a celebrity promotes an already existing picture book, it is rarely a good thing. I am thinking, naturally, of the episode of F...
Episode 386 - Arlene Sardine
We don't play this up much, but this actually marks the first appearance of Chris Raschka on our podcast. And WHATTA debut! This taps into my love of...
Episode 385 - The Hallo-Wiener
What is the most loathed trope in picturebookdom to date? Some might say it's the everyone-forgot-my-birthday plot but we have something even worse in...
Episode 384 - What Was I Scared Of_
Anyone who has ever picked up a copy of The Sneetches for their children has probably discovered that The Sneetches does not stand alone. Indeed, it a...
Episode 383 - Big Pumpkin
As Halloween creeps ever closer (and the weather begins to resemble something somewhat autumnal) we continue to seek out potential seasonal classics f...
Episode 382 - The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Kicking off October with Edward Gorey just seems obvious at this point in time. After all, since he died 25 years ago, there are a lot of celebrations...
Episode 381 - Stephanie's Ponytail
In the news recently were news articles about the diseases that Canadian picture book creator Robert Munsch is facing at the moment. Inspired, we thou...
Episode 380 - Fancy Nancy
Going into this episode,Betsy had a lot on her mind. Fancy Nancy is one of those rare 21st century characters with a legitimate shot at picture book c...
Episode 379 - Max's Dragon Shirt
This is our 379th episode. We've done 378 until now and not one, not one SINGLE title, has been a Rosemary Wells book. Strange? You bet. Well, today t...
Episode 378 - Daddy is a Monster...Sometimes
Betsy doesn't know why people don't talk more about this book. While John Steptoe is well-known for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters and, to a lesser exte...
Episode 377 - Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
This is going to strike you as a little strange. Lord knows it wasn't something we noticed. So... you know how we've done 376 episodes of this podcast...
Episode 376 - A Birthday for Frances
Dear lord. If Betsy thought she was about to give Kate a lovely birthday present with today's recording, then she was SORELY disabused of that notion...
Episode 375 - Crictor
In honor of Tomi Ungerer and the current Three Robbers exhibit at The Rabbit Hole going on right now (to say nothing of their upcoming symposium celeb...
Episode 374 - Traction Man is Here!
As American-born sisters, neither Kate nor Betsy grew up knowing who Action Man was or what his life entailed. None of that has stopped us from truly...
Episode 373 - Come On, Rain!
This week Kate challenged Betsy to come up with a summer book to do on the podcast. And sadly, the book Betsy initially came up with was originally pu...
Episode 372 - Duck on a Bike
A Quick Note: At the beginning of this week's podcast Kate's microphone went out and only recorded Betsy instead. So Kate starts off strong, then she'...
Episode 371 - Goin' Someplace Special
Maybe Betsy is still riding high from the last American Library Association conference she attended, but we're feeling like libraries deserve lots of...
Episode 370 - Pat the Bunny
Since Kate went and had a baby, the time has never been better to highlight the original "interactive book" for small children. Is it not nutty that w...
Episode 369 - Tadpole's Promise
As promised, here is the SECOND caterpillar-and-tadpole-are-friends book we’re featuring, two weeks in a row. I would like to point out that in both c...
Episode 368 - The Caterpillar and the Polliwog
Jack Kent returns!
Not content to rest on his laurels following our episode on There's No Such Thing As a Dragon, we've decided to use on...
Episode 367 - Smoky Night
Here at Fuse 8 n' Kate, I'd like to clarify a few points before we start to discuss today's podcast. First and foremost, this podcast was recorded app...
Episode 366 - The Going to Bed Book
The Queen of Board Books is in the house! I would argue that to be the board book king or queen, you need to work primarily in the genre of board book...
Episode 365 - Diary of a Worm
Back we return to the words of Doreen Cronin! We'd done her Click, Clack, Moo in the past (and Duck for President too), but not her other massively su...
Episode 364 - Wolves
With Kate newly mommified, we try out recording our podcast with baby in tow to see how it goes. So if the episode is a little burbly this time around...
Episode 363 - Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride
Periodically on the podcast we'll consider picture books that could be called "cult classics" in some manner. You know the type. Who Needs Donuts? The...
Episode 362 - Baseball Saved Us
It's baseball season! And baby season! Kate just had a baby (her first!!) almost a month early, and now that she has her brain back in order, we're fi...
Episode 361 - Martha
Recently Kirkus Reviews came up with their own list of the Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far). And it seemed to Betsy that it would be a good ide...
Episode 360 - It's Not Easy Being a Bunny
"I want to do something with my life, but with minimal effort." "He's the hero our children need today." Today, there is a mystery at work. For the pa...
Episode 359 - Leonardo the Terrible Monster
It's been a day or two since we did a Mo Willems book on the podcast (and you can believe I'm counting down the days until one of those Elephant & Pig...
Episode 358 - I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
Kirkus released its list of the Best Picture Books of the 21st Century and we wanted to do one of the books they included! So Betsy went to GREAT LENG...
Episode 357 - Llama Llama Red Pajama
It's the 20th anniversary of the publication of Llama Llama Red Pajama, and you know how we've chosen to celebrate? With none other than Anna Dewdney'...
Episode 356 - Ducky
Remember when I was constantly trying to find picture books with tidal waves in them for Kate? Somebody somewhere (forgive me for not writing it down)...
Episode 355 - Fin M'Coul
Happy St. Patrick's Day! You know, this year our library decided to reassess their holiday section and in the course of things St. Patrick's Day got b...
Episode 354 - The Maggie B.
Kate gave Betsy a challenge and Betsy.... kinda met it? We've somehow managed to do two picture books in a row on the podcast that involved tidal wave...
Episode 353 - Lost and Found
How is it we've never done an Oliver Jeffers book on this podcast? Well, that stops today, folks. Kate wanted something light and goofy, and by gum we...
Episode 352 - The Rainbabies
Let the record show that Kate cut out a very long discussion of how much Betsy dislikes bidets from the beginning of this podcast (and Betsy disagrees...