Bookbird contents 3 / 2014

Editorial by Roxanne Harde

Introduction

May Everyone Really Mean Everyone: Interpreting Reality through Our Own Patterns by Beatriz Alcubierre Moya

Feature Articles

Pat Mora: Transcending the Continental Divide One Book at a Time by Denise Davila

Learning in Francisco Hinojosa’s Children’s Fiction by Mónica Bernal Bejarle

María Elena Walsh and the Art of Subversive Children’s Literature by Alina Dunbar

The New Children of Resistance: Becoming a Child through the Stories Told by the EZLN by Rodrigo Mier González Cadaval and Irene Fenoglio Limón

Magical Realist Moments in Malín Alegría’s Border Town Series by Amy Cummins and Tiffany Cano

Chilean Children’s Literature and National Identity: Post-Dictatorship Discourses of Chileanness through the Representation of Indigenous People by Isabel Ibaceta G.

El Fulano and Patty Swan: Rhetorically Queering the Island in The Meaning of Consuelo by Hilary Brewster

Children & Their Books

To Arrange Life among Books by Socorro Venegas

Puerto Rican Children’s Literature and the Need for Afro-Puerto Rican Stories by Carmen Milagros Torres-Rivera

Letters

Storytelling and Metaphor in Science Communication by Sergio de Régules

Young Adult Literature in Bolivia by Gaby Vallejo Canedo

Books on Books by Christiane Raabe and Jochen Weber

Postcards

Conquistando a Lindolfo [Wooing Lindolfo] by Rosalba Guzman Soriano

Gaby Vallejo Canedo

What a Party! by Ana Maria Machado and Hélène Moreau

Samantha Christensen

Los Diferentes [The Different Ones] by Paula Bossio

Deena Hinshaw

The Donkey Lady and Other Tales from the Arabian Gulf edited by Patty Paine, Jesse Ulmber, and Michael Hersrud

Roxanne Harde

Hojas [Leaves] and Me gustan las vacas [I like cows] by Lara Enrique and Luis García

Deena Hinshaw

La incredible tía Dorita [The Amazing Aunt Dorita] by Rosario Moyano Aguirre

Gaby Vallejo Canedo

Danny, Who Fell In A Hole by Carl Fagan

Taylor Kraayenbrink

Gizli Kapı [Secret Door, Nightmare Forest] by Burcu Unsal, cover illus. by Şahin Karakoç

Tülin Kosikoglu

Hektor in zrela hruška [Hector and the Ripe Pear] by Dim Zupan, illus. by Andreja Gregorič

Gaja Kos

Song of Gipsy’s Tar by Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi

Bahar Eshragh

The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang edited by Jack Zipes

Samantha Christensen

Focus IBBY by Elizabeth Page

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