by IBBY | Jan 5, 2022 | IBBYLink Spring 2021
A Native Scholar’s Perspective on the Caldecott Medal back to IBBYLink Spring 2021 Dr Debbie Reese On 25 January, near the end of the livestream of the 2021 Youth Media Awards, Kirby McCurtis, President of the Association for Library Service to Children said: The...
by IBBY | Jan 5, 2022 | IBBYLink Spring 2021
Why I Write back to IBBYLink Spring 2021 Dr Jewell Parker Rhodes The rise of Black Lives Matter brought renewed attention to my novel Ghost Boys, about the murder by a policeman of a twelve year old playing with a toy gun. Racism, implicit bias, and colourism has...
by IBBY | Sep 22, 2021 | Book Review, Fiction, Picture Book, Translation
The Mask that Loved to Count Book Details The Mask that Loved to CountLuo Xi, transl. Helen Wang. London: New Classics Press, pb, 978 1 6407 4118 8, 2020, £10.99, 32pp.Picture book, fiction, 4-7 years BACK TO REVIEWS This lively illustrated book translated from...
by IBBY | Sep 22, 2021 | Book Review, Fiction, Illustrated book, Translation
The Glassblower’s Children Book Details The Glassblower’s ChildrenMaria Gripe, illus. Harald Gripe, transl. Sheila La Farge. New York: The New York Review of Books, pb, 978 1 6813 7378 2, 2019, £8.99, 176pp.Illustrated book, fiction, 8-12 years BACK TO...
by IBBY | Sep 22, 2021 | Book Review, Fiction, Picture Book, Translation
Victor Book Details VictorJacques & Lise, transl. Laura Watkinson. London: Pushkin, hb, 978 1 7826 9285 0, 2020, £12.99, 48pp.Picture book, fiction, 6+ years BACK TO REVIEWS From the creative Flemish duo, Jacques Maes and Lise Braekers, comes this stunning and...
