Bookbird 1 / 2025

EDITORIAL
(Not) The Last Unicorn: Nonfiction in Children’s Literature	by Marc Aronson and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang \| 1
FEATURED ARTICLES
The Great “Activity Book” Activity Article: Over 9 Pages of Fun, Scholarship, and More!	by Clémentine Beauvais and Krzysztof Rybak \| 3
Liminal Spaces between Fiction and Nonfiction in the Picturebooks of Gustavo Puerta Leisse and Elena Odriozola	by Francisco Antonio Martínez Carratala and Sebastián Miras \| 13
Art Activity Books in the Portuguese Nonfiction Context	by Inês Costa and Ana Margarida Ramos \| 21
Exploring the Seeds of US Nonfiction for Children: The Early Nineteenth-Century Natural History of Publisher Samuel L. Wood	by Mary Ann Cappiello and Xenia Hadjioannou \| 31
Nonfiction Texts as a Biocultural Conservation Trigger	by Andrea Casals-Hill, Diego Muñoz-Concha, and Ximena Quiñones Díaz \| 41
Vibrant Rivers in Three Hybrid Books for Young Readers Addressing Climate Change and Matter Awareness	by Nina Goga \| 51
LETTERS
Art Books as Nonfiction: The Alphabetic Encyclopedias on the Lives of Outstanding Ukrainian Figures	by Olha Novyk \| 59
Playing Cards: Forgotten Format of a Book?	by Niklas Bengtsson \| 61
Natércia Rocha	by Sara Reis da Silva \| 65
BOOKS ON BOOKS	edited by Jutta Reusch—International Youth Library \| 69
FOCUS IBBY	by Carolina Ballester \| 79
POSTCARDS	edited by Siobhán Parkinson \| 30, 64, 67, 68, 78, 85, & 86