Betsy Bird

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November 14, 2021 by Travis Jonker

‘Shoot – David Small believes in me!’ Betsy Bird and the LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS

Betsy Bird takes us behind the scenes of her first middle grade novel, LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS.

May 21, 2017 by Travis Jonker

‘Do You Want to Hear My Joke?’ Betsy Bird’s FUNNY GIRL

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 […]