EDITORIAL
Mel Gibson The State of the (Sequential) Art?: Signs of Changing Perceptions of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels in Britain
Paul Gravett From Tintin to Titeuf: Is the Anglophone Market too Tough for French Comics for Children?
David Fickling The Short but Continuing Life of The DFC
Marcia Williams Out of the Box
Janet Evans Raymond Briggs: Blurring the Boundaries among Comics, Graphic Novels, Picture Books and Illustrated Books
Bill Boerman-Cornell Graphic Novels in the High-School Classroom
Sarah McIntyre Britain’s Comics Explosion
Ariel Kahn Reading between the Lines: The Subversion of Authority in Comics and Graphic Novels Written for Young Adults
Dora Oronti Richard Felton Outcault and The Yellow Kid
Daniel Moreira de Sousa Pinna As Old as Clay
Petros Panaou and Frixos Michaelides The Power of Hybrids: Complex and Effective Visual Narratives that Resist Categorisation
Stefania Tondo Crossing a Graphic Text with Classics of Children’s Literature: Disney Manga Kingdom Hearts
Kimberley Black ‘Remember Me’: An Afrocentric Reading of Pitch Black
Rebecca R. Butler Graphic Novels and the Holocaust
Erica Gillingham Copulating, Coming Out and Comics: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schragg
Rachel Johnson Is Henty’s History Lost in Graphic Translation? Won by the Sword in 45 pages
Vasiliki Labitsi Sequences of Frames by Young Creators: The Impact of Comics in Children’s Artistic Development
Malini Roy ‘To Entertain and Educate Young Minds’: Graphic Novels for Children in Indian Publishing
Lara Saguisag Strangely Familiar: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and the Universalised Immigrant Experience
Mariana Spanaki Journeys in Time in Graphic Novels from Greece
Emma Vieceli Crossing Boundaries
Jessica Yates Superhero Comics and Graphic Novels
Hilary Young Composing and Performing Masculinities: Of Reading Boys’ Comics c. 1930–1955
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News

Summer 2010

Issue 28

Wars and Conflicts

EDITORIAL
Janet Dowling Healing Words Tour of the Holy Land 2009
Val Rutt Out of the Blue
Pam Robson War and Conflict
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News

Autumn 2010

Issue 29

Australia

EDITORIAL
Robin Morrow IBBY Australia
Sally Newham Bunyip and Patricia Wrightson
Chloe Mauger The Changing Face of the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Awards 1946–2009
Judi Jagger The Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards: Observations of a Judge
Alice Nuttall Hyphenated Girls: Australian-Muslim Identity in the Novels of Randa Abdel-Fattah
Chrissie Michaels In Lonnie’s Shadow
Hazel Edwards An A to Z of Embarrassing Author Moments
Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy Collaborating on a Controversial Young Adult Novel about Transitioning Gender: Co-Writing f2m: The Boy Within
Paul Collins A Book’s Journey
Margaret Zeegers Australian Children’s Literature and Explorations of Australia’s Indigenous History in a Primary School
Pam Robson Australian Children’s Literature
Sean McMullen Tea and Cakes with the Terminators: Teaching Real History with Historical Science Fiction
Shane Thamm When the Boys Come Out to Play
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News

Spring 2009

Issue 24

Deep into Nature: Ecology, Environment and Children’s Literature

EDITORIAL
PLENARY SESSIONS
- Roni Natov Pastoral and Healing
- Jo Elworthy, Natasha Biebow Children’s Books and the Eden Project
- Alison Kennedy Publishers Protecting the Environment
- Peter Hunt, Tessa Strickland, Dawn Casey, Janetta Otter-Barry Panel Discussion
- Tessa Strickland Deep Ecology and Children’s Literature
- Michael Foreman Picture Books and the Environment
- Susan Price Trashing the Past and Trashing the Future
WORKSHOPS
- Jenny Bavidge Ecocitizens
- Alice Bell New Ambivalences of ‘Critical’ Children's Ecology Literature
- Nick Swarbrick Messages Children’s Literature Gives about the Environment
- Sophie Mackay Picture Books for Education for Sustainable Development
- Melanie Newman How deep Is Ecology in Children’s Fiction?
- William Gray Romanticism, Ecocriticism and Children’s Literature
- Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Victorian Children’s Literature and the Natural World
- Malini Roy Mary Shelley’s Maurice
- Toni Lahtinen Lapland as the Heart of Darkness
- Katherine E. Russo Belonging to Wilderness in Australian Children’s Literature
- Stefania Tondo Wonderful Underwater Worlds for Land Children
- Peter Bramwell Ecology and Shamanism
- Susan Anderson Challenges to Traditional Literary Landscapes in the Young Adult Fiction of Meg Rosoff
- Susan Hancock Images of the Child Archetype and of Nature as the ‘Great Mother’
- Preeyaporn Charoenbutra Natural Settings in Thai Children’s Literature
- Jenny Kendrick Native Ponies and their Wild Habitats in the Work of Allen W. Seaby
- Jean Webb A Discussion of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
- Zetta Elliott Narrative Possibility and the Urban Environment
- Ragnhild A. Mørch Nature Children and Oral Storytelling
- David Whitley Environmental Perspectives on Disney Animation
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News

Summer 2009

Issue 25

The Family

EDITORIAL
Nicholas Tucker The Family in British Children’s Literature
Sara Broad Historical or Hysterical? Periodising Family Breakdown in Contemporary Children’s Literature
Pam Robson Children’s Literature and the Family: A Reading List
Elizabeth Thiel Parental Responsibilities
Alison Waller The Supernatural Anti-Mother in Louise Lawrence’s The Earth Witch (1982)
Pat Pinsent David Bearne and the Ideal Edwardian Family
Stella Thebridge Issues for Family Reading
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News

Autumn 2009

Issue 26

Number

EDITORIAL
Janet Dowling The Alchemy of Number in Storytelling
Pat Pinsent Five Variations on the Traditional Number Book
Pam Robson ‘Hidden Mathematics’: Numbers and Codes in Fiction
Pat Pinsent Is your Number up?
Farah Mendelsohn Can you Count a Light Year?
Rebecca R. Butler Hermione Granger and the Magic Numbers
Jennifer Harding Codes and Ciphers
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News

Spring 2008

Issue 21

What do you see?

EDITORIAL
Evelyn Arizpe Marvellous Realities
Jean Webb Aesthetic Hegemony
Magdalena Sikorska The Art of Sven Nordqvist
Lisa Boggis Boyce Vojtěch Kubašta
Mieke K.T. Desmet Monkey King goes Bananas
Joanne Collie & Neal Hoskins ‘Translating’ Visuals
Sandra J. Williams ‘That Wasn’t There a Couple of Minutes Ago’
Fiona Collins Reading Pictures: Books Set in Africa
Dianne Hofmeyr South African Illustration
Peter Cook Go Ask Alice
Stefania Tondo A Wonderland of Pictures to Alice from Italy
Tammy Mielke Inanimate Alice
Vasiliki Labitsi Students as Illustrators
Dora Oronti Cypriot Picture Books
Penni Cotton Visualising Europe
Petros Panaou Sameness and Difference
Elena Xeni Translated Picture Books
Nikki Gamble and Ann Lazim Take One Tale
Kate Noble Picture Thinking
Stella Thebridge Sharing Reading
Rebecca R. Butler Depicting the Unthinkable
Jennifer Harding (coll) Two Flemish Illustrators
Reports
Reviews
IBBY News
Events and Conferences

Summer 2008

Issue 22

Children’s Books in Central Europe

EDITORIAL
Maria Ostasz The Development of the Contemporary Polish Youth Novel
Grzegorz Leszczyński Polish Literature for the Youngest Readers, 1990–2006
Darja Mazi-Leskovar Slovenian Children’s Literature
Judit Ward Literature: A Personal Experience
Pam Robson Selected Children’s Books Originating in or Relating to Central and Eastern European Countries
Reports
Reviews
News
Forthcoming Events

Autumn 2008

Issue 23

Gendered Reading

EDITORIAL
Alan Gibbons Campaign for the Book
GENDER
- Nicola Morgan Mind the Gender Gap
- Chris Brown Boys into Books
- Rebecca R. Butler Reading and Gender at Primary-School Level
- Michele Gill Tim Bowler’s Blade Series
- Bridget Carrington Young Adult Girls’ Reading
- Jenny Kendrick Boys and their Ponies
- Pam Robson Gender and Reading
OTHER ISSUES
- Lilia Ratcheva-Stratieva EU-Funded European Educational Projects
- Jennifer Harding What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children’s Book Illustration
Reviews
Reports
News
Forthcoming Events

Spring 2007

Issue 18

Time Everlasting: Representations of Past, Present and Future in Children’s Literature

EDITORIAL
Ann Thwaite Encomium for Philippa Pearce
Morag Styles Pearce Everlasting
Victor Watson Time and Knowledge
Margaret Meek Time … Memory … Tense
Corinne Buckland Meditations on Time
Patrick Ryan Once Upon a Time into Altered States
Charles Butler The Henge as Wormhole
Nolan Dalrymple Childhood, the North-East and the Past
Clive Barnes Rosemary Sutcliff and the Cowboys
Rebecca R. Butler Children’s Literature and the Holocaust
Rose-May Pham Dinh Anne Frank’s Fictional Heiresses
Maiko Miyoshi Dear Diary Now and Then
Marianna Spanaki Heritage in Greek Children’s Literature
Sara Reis da Silva Discourses of History in Portuguese Children’s Literature
Arlene Hsing Metafictive Picture Books
Maija-Liisa Harju Death in Picture Books
Theresa Breslin Locating Leonardo
Linda Buckley-Archer Pandora’s Box
Marilyn Pemberton Mopsa the Fairy
William Gray Time in Pullman, Lewis and Macdonald
Farah Mendlesohn With Meccano to the Stars
Jessica Yates The Near Future in Science Fiction
Alice Bell What Albert Did Next
Reports
Reviews
IBBY News
Conferences, Exhibitions and Events

Summer 2007

Issue 19

Children’s Books and Environmental Issues

EDITORIAL
Chris d’Lacey A Sentence for the Arctic
Pam Robson A Chronological View of ‘Green’ Children’s Books
Kerry Mallan Cautionary Tales for the New Millennium
Cheri Lloyd Not Wrecking the Planet
Jessica Yates The Lorax
Reports
Reviews
IBBY News
Events, Exhibitions and Conferences

Autumn 2007

Issue 20

Scotland and Children’s Literature

EDITORIAL
Theresa Breslin The Power of Place
Nicola Morgan Something in the Water?
Sara Grady My Heart’s in the Highlands
Maureen A. Farrell Children’s Literature in Scotland
Jessica Yates A Warning for the Future?
Shirley Neilson and Vanessa Robertson A Celebration of Scottish Children’s Literature
Rachel Anderson South Lanarkshire Book Awards 2007
Reviews
Reports
IBBY News
Events, Conferences and Resources

Spring 2006

Issue 15

No child is an island

EDITORIAL
Gillian Lathey The Translator Revealed
Anthea Bell Grounds for Cautious Optimism?
Sarah Adams Mind the Gap
Isabel Hoving In Praise of Imperfect Translation
Márta Minier Hungarian Translations of Harry Potter
Margherita Ippolito Beatrix Potter’s Tale
Sue Neale Daniel Pennac: The Eye of the Wolf
Elena Xeni Children and Young Adults
Stefania Tondo Translations of Classics into Neapolita
Belén González Cascallana Spanish Translations of Deborah Ellis
James Riordan Translating Russian Folk Tales
Michal Borodo Turn-of-the-Century Poland
Vasiliki Labitsi & Dorothy Bedford Stories for Children
Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth About Afterwords
Maria Venetia Kyritsi Wanda Gág
André Muniz de Moura & Renata Junqueira de Souza Brazilian Ugly Duckling
Mieke K.T. Desmet Roadblocks and Broken Bridges
Tricia Brown and Teri Sloat Returning Home
Abasi Kiyimba The Language of the Neighbour’s Child
Robert Ornstein The Teaching Story from Afghanistan
Murray Knowles and Dorota Pacek Having it Both Ways
Gillian Lathey Translating Sound
Annette Goldsmith Found in Translation
Patricia Billings Vocabulary, Pictures… Market?
Neal Hoskins WingedChariot Press
Reviews
June Hopper Postscript to HCA Conference
Other news and notes
Conferences

Summer 2006

Issue 16

Graphic Novels

EDITORIAL
Noga Applebaum Coming of Age in Comics and Graphic Novels
Mel Gibson (University of Northumbria) Manga and Younger Readers in Britain
Pam Robson From Caricature through Comic Strip to Picture Book and Graphic Novel
Ann Lazim ‘Reading’ Graphic Novels
Tomm Moore The Irish Graphic Novel
June Hopper Picture Strips, Action Dots and Subversion
Pat Pinsent Graphic Novels: The Coming Genre?
Launch of new Frances Lincoln Series, March 2006
Reviews
IBBY Activities at Home and Abroad
Conferences and Talks
Journals
Other Items

Autumn 2006

Issue 17

Non-Fiction for Children

EDITORIAL
Nicola Morgan Fact versus Fiction: No Contest
Pat Pinsent Learning with Pictures
Jacob Hope Free Trade in a Knowledge Economy
Pam Robson Writing Non-Fiction for Children
Russell Stannard The World of Uncle Albert
June Hopper Seeing the Way Animals See
Alex Webb and Alexandra Kirby Rights People
Recent Children’s Literature Events
Laura Atkins Diversity Matters
Reviews
Children’s Bookshow: Poetry Matters
IBBY News
Conferences and events