Bookbird search for editors

by | Jun 12, 2021 | IBBY NEWS, IBBYLink Autumn 2016, News

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Bookbird search for editors

Bookbird, Inc., the management board of IBBY’s journal, Bookbird: a Journal of International Children’s Literature, seeks an editor or editorial team to take over from the current editors whose term of office finishes with the publication of the October 2022 issue. Bookbird is a refereed journal published quarterly by IBBY (The International Board on Books for Young People), and is printed and distributed by JHUP (Johns Hopkins University Press). Bookbird is indexed on SCOPUS, Children’s Book Review Index, Library Literature, LISA, MLA International Bibliography, Web of Science. 

The editor(s) are required to attend and report at Bookbird, Inc. and IBBY Executive Committee meetings twice yearly in various venues internationally. These are held in March or April at the Bologna Book Fair and in another location later in the year, usually during September. 

The application deadline is 1st October 2021. Application review will begin on 18 October 2021 and the position will be open until filled.

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