EDITORIAL
Richard R. O’Neill A Longing for Belonging
Aravinda Anantharaman The Incongruity of the Tibetan Exile Life and why it’s Time to Read about It
Terry Farish Braids and Belonging: On Writing The Good Braider, the Story of a Girl from South Sudan
Kate Mitchell The Stigma and Isolation of Bereavement in Children’s Literature
Janice Bland Stories for Overcoming Barriers: Commissioned by Amnesty International
Jake Hope Raising Voices: The Seven Stories and Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Promotion
Julia Eccleshare Belonging Is…:’May Everyone Really Mean Everyone’
Lusekelo Lucas Mwalughelo (Mama Africa)My lovely REGESHATA Bridge: It is a Bridge to Success that Has never Failed anyone
Robina Pelham Burn The Guardian/Stephen Spender Prize 2014 for Poetry in Translation
Reviews

Summer 2015

Issue 43

Fairy Tales: The Imaginative World of 'Once upon a Time'

EDITORIAL
Philip Pullman Fairy Tales
Jack Zipes Warping ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’: or How Little People Are Belittled in Fairy Tales Twisted against Them
Neil Philip Visions of Wonder: Hans Christian Andersen and his Influence
Jane Ray Illustrating Fairy Tales
Erica Gillingham Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White: Challenges to Heteronormativity in Fairy-Tale Retellings
Jonas Herriot Fairy Tales ad Graphic Novels
Ann Lazim A Fairy-Tale Collection in Central London
Reviews

Autumn 2015

Issue 44

Latin America and Mexico

EDITORIAL
Pam Dix ‘In Literature the Excluded Can Participate’
Pam Dix An Interview with Gusti: Drawing What You Can’t Express in Words
Maria Teresa Andruetto: Hans Christian Andersen Award Winner
Pilar Muňoz Lascano Maria Teresa Andruetto’s Work for Children and Young People: Literature as a Place for Meeting
Peggy Espinosa Petra Editions: The Ambition and Vision of a Publisher
Valerie Coghlan ‘Countless Threads, Countless Tales’: A Colourful Adventure through the Picture Books of Brazil
Reflection
María Fuentes IBBY Mexico/A Leer Programmes
Socorro Venegas Postcards from Apatzingan, Mexico: Rewriting Peach
Jennifer Harding Poetry Society’s Young Translators Competition
Reviews
22nd IBBY UK/NCRCL MA Conference

Spring 2014

Issue 39

Feast or Famine? Food and Children's Literature

EDITORIAL
Jean Webb Childhood Three Ways: Constructions of Childhood through Food in Children’s Literature
Nicki HumbleLiniment Cake, Beavers and Buttered Eggs: Children Cooking and Cooking [for] Children
Anne Harvey Eating My Words
Aoife Byrne‘Pearls and Pomegranates Cannot Buy It’: Food and the Treachery of the Capitalist Marketplace in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Stories
Kay Waddilove Women, Work and Chocolate: Food, Power and ‘Sites of Struggle’ in the Post-War Novels of Noel Streatfeild
Sinéad Moriarty Dog Meat for Dinner: Food in Heroic-Era Antarctic Narratives for Children
Simone Herrmann The Island that Provides: Food Supply and Sustenance in Victorian Robinsonades for Children and Young Adults
Rebecca Ann LongFood, Love and Childhood: Surviving and Thriving in the Deepwoods – Monsters and Monstrous Appetites
Karen Williams‘Babies on Toast’: Edible Children in Early Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature
Sarah Layzell Hardstaff Poachers and Scavengers: Reconceptualising Food in Children’s Literature
Rebecca R. Butler‘Crunchy Apples to you, Comrades’: Alex Shearer’s Bootleg
Gili Bar-HillelThe Mad Hatter’s Coffee Party: Bridging the Gastronomical Divide in the Translation of Children’s Literature
Franziska BurstynThe Myth of the Magic Porridge Pot: Never-Ending Edibles in Children’s Literature
Pat Pinsent A Varied Menu: Children’s Poetry about Food
Robina Pelham Burn The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2013
Reviews

Summer 2014

Issue 40

Facts rather than Fiction: Information Books

EDITORIAL
Chris Brown Rewarding Information
Jennifer Harding Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Nicola DaviesFact Rather than Fiction
Zahra Amlani Squelch! Bang! Ooh! The Transformative Potential of Children’s Non-Fiction
M.O. Grenby Persistent Pedestrianism: The ‘Tour Book’ as an Enduring Form of Children’s Instructional Literature
Ruth Thomson Terezin, A Story of the Holocaust – A Non-Fiction Narrative
Mick Manning and Brita Granström Ways of Working and Illustrating Information Books
Jamie-Lee NardoneTemplar Imprint ‘Mapping’ its Way to the Big Picture
Reviews
IBBY UK News

Autumn 2014

Issue 41

Bridging the Gap

EDITORIAL
Pat Pinsent Children’s Books and Dementia
Rebecca R. Butler Understanding Disability: Bridges for Young Readers
Mairi Kidd Not so Special: Reading Reluctance and the Mainstream
Fen Coles Picture Books Exploring Connections, Bridges and Identities
Pam Dix Students’ Reading Histories
BJ Epstein Translation as a Bridge
Tomoko Masaki When Children Psychologically Cross the Bridge: Growing up through the Stage of Liminality
Reviews
IBBY UK NEWS

Spring 2013

Issue 36

Beyond the Book

EDITORIAL
Anne Harding A Member’s Blog Post
Kiera Vaclavik The Dress of the Book: Children’s Literature, Fashion and Fancy Dress
Gwen Athene Tarbox Just a Figment? Online Participatory Writing Communities and the Future of the Young Adult Novel
Michelle Ann Abate The Big Smallness: Niche Market Picture Books and the New Children’s Literature
Marta Borges and Sandie Mourão Planeta Tangerina: An Editorial Concept that Pushes Boundaries
Lucy Pearson What’s the Problem? Building Teenage Publishing in Britain
Maaike Palmier-Claus The Blank Page: The Writing Process and the Creative Dissertation
Dominique Sandis Greek children’s Literature in the Digital Age: An Overview
Kirsty Jenkins Enhancing the Experience: Rekindling and Renewing Forgotten Texts
Anne Malewski Second to the Right and Straight on till Gallifrey: The Uses of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who
Ciara Gallagher Virtual Worlds and New Literary Interactions in Salman Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life
Carey Gibbons Re-imagining the Form of the Book: Su Blackwell’s Book Sculptures
Kerenza Ghosh Walking with Wolves: Children’s Responses to the Wolf Tradition in Stories
Erica Berry Irving Beyond the ‘Grown-up Child’: The Quality of Childness in Matilda: The Musical
Hannah Field Children’s Movables and the Threat of the Mechanical Book
Sally Maynard The Impact of Ebooks on Young Children’s Reading Habits
Rebecca R. Butler Literacy and the Non-Verbal Child
Robina Pelham Burn The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2012
Reviews
Reports
Awards and Competitions
Conferences, Exhibitions and Events
News
IBBY News

Summer 2013

Issue 37

Children’s Literature in Ireland

EDITORIAL
Interviewed by Valerie Coghlan Niamh Sharkey, Current Irish Children’s Laureate
Siobhán Parkinson Reflections from Ireland’s First Children’s Laureate
Valerie Coghlan Complex, Challenging and Staying the Course
Robert Dunbar Shortlist for the 2012/2013 Children’s Books Ireland Awards
Patrick Ryan ‘All the World’s a Story’: Storytelling and Children’s Books in Ireland
Anne Markey ‘Compiled for the Amusement of Good Children; and the Instruction of Such as Wish to Become Good’: The Irish Study, Origins and Archives of Children’s Literature
June Hopper Swain The Authentic Voice of Ireland: Children’s Author Patricia Lynch
Anna McQuinn Walter Macken Changed My Life!
Reviews
Reports
Awards and Competitions
Conferences, Exhibitions and Events
News
IBBY News

Autumn 2013

Issue 38

Picture Books for Older Readers

EDITORIAL
Vivian French Shaun Tan: My Picture Books A Plea for Longer Picture Books
Jana Novotny Hunter Picture Books for Older Readers
Louise Wykes Where the Wild Ones Write: Using Picture Books with Older Children
Andrew McCallum What, No Visuals? Making Room for Picture Books in the Secondary English Curriculum
Alexandra Strick The Value of Picture Books for Young People with Additional Needs
Penni Cotton The European Picture Book Collection (EPBC) Moves On
Sam Arthur Flying Eye Books: An Exciting Venture in Publishing
Jackie Morris Inspiration and Enthusiasm
June Hopper Swain Ratty, Mole and Toad at Nymans
Reviews
Awards and competitions
Conferences, Exhibitions and Events
News
IBBY News

Spring 2012

Issue 33

It Doesn’t Have to Rhyme: Children and Poetry

EDITORIAL
Anne Harding IBBY UK/NCRCL MA Conference: An IBBY Member’s Blog
Susan Bassnett Judging Translations
Philip Gross Our Place: Off Road to Everywhere as Poetry with Children
Sandra A. Agard It Doesn’t Have to Rhyme
David A. Whitley Children’s Poetry: Loose Canons and Loose Iambics
Kimberly Black Social Protest in Urban Youth Spoken-Word Poetry
Joelle Taylor SLAMbassadors UK: A Brave New Word
Imogen Church Authenticity of Voice in Poetry by Juvenile Offenders
Lucy Andrew Riddles in the Dark: The Role of Poetry in Children’s Fantasy Novels from Alice to Harry Potter
Rebecca R. Butler Imaginative Opportunities in Two Verse Novels
Julie Blake Reclaiming the Oral Tradition
Mark Carthew Slam Dunk: Performance as a Way of Bringing Children’s Poetry to Life
Fiona Collins and Alison Kelly Poetry Journeys: From Child to Student Teacher
Jenny Vernon Ten Years of Children’s Poetry: The Southwark Poetry Anthologies
Pat Ebhohimen Is Poetry Written by Children really Poetry?
Robert Hull Can a Love of Poetry Be Taught?
Debbie Pullinger The Hidden Child
Emily Roach Dealing with Death: Tough Topics in Poetry for Children
Siwan M. Rosser Negotiating Borders: Poetry and the Language of Children
Georgie A. Horrell Singing Voices: Caribbean Children’s Poetry in Multicultural Britain
Aneesh Barai ‘Children and Cats in the Alley’: T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and its French Translations
Robina Pelham Burn The Times Stephen Spender Prizes 2011
Kay Waddilove The Future of Libraries
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News
List of Reviews

Summer 2012

Issue 34

Olympic Games and Sport

EDITORIAL
Patrick Ryan Telling the Game: Sport, Oral Narrative and Literacy
Wendy Buddin and Michael Foreman Chelsea FC Foundation’s ‘Education Through Football’ Project
Jean Webb and Robyn Cox Olympic Stories: Unexpected Heroes
Melanie Sefton The ‘Jamie Oliver’ of Children’s Literature: Twelve Readers Reading Mal Peet’s novel Keeper
Stella Thebridge Olympics on Loan
P.M. Hanby Olympic Games
John Dunne, Carol Thompson and Clive Barnes Chinese Illustrators in London
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Exhibitions, Awards and Events
News
IBBY News
List of Reviews

Autumn 2012

Issue 35

33rd IBBY International Congress, London

EDITORIAL
Impressions of the 33rd IBBY International Darja Mazi-Leskovar, Slovenia; Clive Barnes, UK; Valerie Coghlan, Ireland; Petros Panaou, Cyprus; Alice Curry, UK; Niklas Bengtsson, Finland; Pam Dix, UK; Pat Pinsent, UK; Rebecca R. Butler, UK; Swapna Dutta, India; Judith Philo, UK; Ferelith Hordon, UK; Susan Bailes, UK
Alexandra Strick; Erica Gillingham First Day of the Congress, Friday
Ellen Ainsworth Second Day of the Congress, Saturday
Jaq Delany Third and Final Day of the Congress, Sunday
Ellen Ainsworth Post-Congress Excursion, Tuesday: Discovering the Real ‘Green Knowe’ and ‘Midnight Garden’
Shaun Tan Strange Migrations
Reviews
Reports
Awards
Forthcoming Exhibitions and Events
News
IBBY News

Spring 2011

Issue 30

Conflicts and Controversies

EDITORIAL
LETTERS
Anne Cassidy Pushing the Boundaries of Teen Fiction
Panel Discussion
Elizabeth Laird Conflicts and Controversies: Running into Flak
Jane Rosen and Hazel Brown Once Upon a Wartime: Classic War Stories forChildren An Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
Malorie Blackman in Conversation with Laura Atkins
Lucy Andrew A Band of Light amongst the Shadows: The Boy Detective and the ‘Penny-Dreadful’ Controversy of the 1860s
Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young The Refugee Diary Series: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
Kimberly Black Hair Controversy and Racial Politics in Children’s Picture Books
Patricia Kennon Picturing the Irish Past: Historical Picture Books and the Famine
Penni Cotton Conflicts and Controversies in European Picture Books
Sarah Stokes ‘… until the day she found an empty chair’: The Conceptualisation of Bereavement and Depression through the Picture-Book Narrative of Oliver Jeffers’ The Heart and the Bottle
Helen Day Violence, Surveillance and Survival in Hunger Games, Battle Royale and The Running Man
Anthony Pavlik William Mayne and the Death of the Author
B.J. Epstein Dancing and Playing and Mattering: How Gay Teenagers are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature
Tammy Mielke Losing, Choosing, Abusing, Removing my Religion: Conflicting Attitudes Concerning Religion in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
Kirsty Jenkins War and Peace: Controversial Images of Wartime Europe in the Contemporary School Stories of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Sandra Williams ‘Rupturing the Past': Disturbing Family Relationships in Hugh Scott’s Why Weeps the Brogan?
Ruth Murphy Gorilla Warfare: Apes, Adolescents and African Adventures in 1860’s Children’s Literature
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News

Summer 2011

Issue 31

South Africa

EDITORIAL
Beverley Naidoo Vulindlela! Open the Way!
Dianne Hofmeyr Things Have Come a Long Way …
Pat Pinsent South African Branch of IBBY: Newsletter and Website
Robin Malan South African Branch of IBBY: An African Story
Phindi Dlamini IsiZulu Nursery Rhymes
Pat Pinsent Nutrend Publishers and some of their Publications
Karen Sharkey Book Aid International
Pat Pinsent Featuring some South African Books
Laura Atkins Working with an African Publisher
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News

Autumn 2011

Issue 32

Children and Libraries

EDITORIAL
Judith Philo What Libraries Mean to Me
John Newman My Early Experiences of Public Libraries
Pat Pinsent Libraries in my Life
Pupils at Lewisham schools and Pam Dix Children’s Opinions about School Libraries
Pam Dix and Pat Pinsent (Re-)Discovering the Library
Julie Lewins Litcham High School Library
Anne Harding ‘You’ve Changed my Life’: Teenagers, Reading and Libraries
Clive Barnes Changes in the Library Service
Victoria Thornley Manga Mania in Milton Keynes
Report by John Dunne Laureate Poem
Reviews
Reports
Forthcoming Events
News
IBBY News