Bookbird contents 4 / 2013
Editorial by Roxanne Harde
Feature Articles
Death and the Empathic Embrace in Four Contemporary Picture Books by Lesley Clement
Picturing Difference: Three Recent Picture Books Portray the Black Nova Scotian Community by Vivian Howard
Images of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Class Struggle in Communist Albanian Children’s Literature and Media by Enkelena Shockett Qafleshi
Exploring the Text/Image Wilderness: Ironic Visual Perspective and Critical Thinking in George O’Connor’s Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country by William Boerman-Cornell
Teacher Authored Supplementary Reading Materials in South Africa by Misty Sailors, Miriam Martinez, and Lorena Villarreal
Immigrants and Immigration in Portuguese Children’s Literature by Maria da Conceição Tomé and Glória Bastos
Children and Their Books
The School as Mediator when Constituting the Family of Readers by Yara Maria Miguel
Wadadli Pen and Young Writers in the Caribbean by Joanne C. Hillhouse
The Challenge: A Reader-Centered Programme for Young Adults in Vocational Colleges by Fieke Van der Gucht
Letters
The IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People by Heidi Boiesen
“To Hand out the Stars”: Jane Langton's Fiction for Children by Crystal Hurdle
Setting up a Research Collection by Rachel Johnson
Reviews of Secondaty Literature
Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms by Sara L. Schwebel Rebecca Berger
Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Nathalie op de Beeck Valerie Coghlan
De Tintin au Congo à Odilon Verjus : le missionnaire, héros de la BD belge
[Tintin from Congo to Odilon Verjus : the Missionary Hero of the Belgian Comics] by Philippe Delisle Soizik Jouin, translated by Hasmig Chahinian
Bande dessinée franco-belge et imaginaire colonial : des années 1930 aux années 1980 [Franco-Belgian Comics and Colonial Imagination: From the 1930s to the 1980s] by Philippe Delisle Soizik Jouin, translated by Hasmig Chahinian
The Nation in Children’s Literature: Nations of Childhood edited by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark Erin Spring
Children’s Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation by Rebecca Knuth Vanessa Warne
Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque by Cherie Allan Valerie Coghlan
Les Enfants de Mussolini : littérature, livres, lectures d’enfance et de jeunesse sous le fascisme : de la Grande Guerre à la chute du régime [Mussolini’s Children: literature, books, childhood and teenage years’ readings under Fascism: from the Great War to the fall of the regime] by Mariella Colin Lise Chapuis, translated by Marine Planche
Postcards
¡No!, dijo el pequeño monstruo [“No!,” Said the Little Monster] by Kalle Güettler and
Rakel Heimisdal, illus. by Áslaug Jónsdóttir Deena Hinshaw
Orchards by Holly Thompson Sylvia Vardell
The Mysterious Francois Leaf Monkeys by Liu Xianping Doris Audet
Bókasafn ömmu Huldar [Grandmother’s Library] Þórarinn Leifsson Natalie M. Van Deusen
The statue which became prosperous by Narges Abyar, illus. by Hamidreza Akram Bahar Eshragh
Raccontare gli alberi [Telling Trees] by Mauro Evangelista, illus. by Pia Valenti Melissa Garavini
Hurrem by Baris Pirhasan, illus. by Ceren Oykut Tulin Kozikoglu
Holz: Was unsere welt zusammenhält [Wood: What keeps our world together]
by Reinhard Osteroth, illus. by Moidi Kretschmann Linda Dütsch
Report
International Youth Library [Direktion Internationale Jugendbibliothek] Report Christiane Raabe and Jochen Weber
Focus IBBY by Liz Page
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