I don't think Kate and Betsy expected to get into an in-depth conversation about Miss Nelson's cosplay as Viola Swamp, and why precisely she chooses to do so, but that's the kind of podcast this is. Along the way the sisters get into what the Wicked Witch of the West might have been wearing under that dress, the fact that butterflies were angry about the gas crisis in the 70s, and whether or not Viola Swamp talks like Katharine Hepburn (special bonus: Kate and Betsy may do the worst celebrity imitations of all time).

Show Notes:

- Here's a link to the website that discusses James Marshall's gravestone. https://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/james-marshall/

- Betsy and her co-writer Julie Danielson spoke about it at length at the Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature website here: http://wildthings.blaine.org/?p=157

- The Reading Rainbow episode is completely available here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5laqhx

-Here's the New York Times review of There's a Mystery There by Jonathan Cott: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/books/review-theres-mystery-there-maurice-sendak-jonathan-cott.html

- For the complete Show Notes, please visit: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2018/05/28/fuse-8-n-kate-miss-nelson-is-missing-by-harry-allard-and-james-marshall/