Betsy Bird is recognized nationally as an expert on children's literature. She is the author of five books, the host of two podcasts, and a blogger for School Library Journal. During the current COVID pandemic, she's spearheading a Cozy Evanston Community Cookbook, an ebook of recipes from the community. (This episode was recorded pre-pandemic.)

She has been with the Evanston Public Library for six years as the Collections Manager since coming from the New York Public Library where she had a million dollar budget to purchase children's books! As we learned, Betsy has had books in her blood from the very start. She also learns a few things about the people of Evanston by seeing what we are and are not reading.

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