Spring 2021

Issue 60

Voices from the USA: Publishing for Young People in the United States

EDITORIAL
Pam Dix African American Children’s Book Illustrators
Evelyn B. Freeman Trends in Children’s Literature in the United States
Jewell Parker Rhodes Why I Write
Debbie Reese A Native Scholar’s Perspective on the Caldecott Medal
Jon Agee Two Great People I Met along the Way: Two Stories of Publishing in the 80s
Gill James The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction

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Spring 2020

Issue 57

A World of Information: Children’s Non-Fiction Books in the Digital Age

EDITORIAL
Ana Paula Campos Inventório: Design Influences on Science Picture Books for Children
Karen Bentall Storytime and Engaged Learning with an Informational Poetry Picture Book
Louise Johnson I Want to Be an…Air Stewardess: The Careers Comics of GIRL (1951–1964)
Yuval Zommer Non-Fiction: Its Relevance, Popularity and Creativity!
Diletta Donato Getting Us Engaged! The Power of Biographical Picture Books
Martin Jenkins Prima Le Parole
June Hopper Swain Review – Beatrix Potter’s Fairyland

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Summer 2020

Issue 58

Families in Children’s Literature: It Takes All Sorts

EDITORIAL
Brian Sibley My Family – The Moomins
Patrice Lawrence From a Mountain to a Rocket: Diversity and Family Representation in Children’s Books in the UK
Frank Cottrell Boyce Framing Families in Fiction
Susan Bailes The Mennym Family
Sarah Jardine-Willoughby The Gatty Family – Close and Talented
Pat Pinsent Book Review – Fantasy Fictions from the Bengali Renaissance

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Autumn 2020

Issue 59

A Sense of Place: Landscape

EDITORIAL
David Almond Landscapes
Salvatore Rubbino The Importance of Place
Karenanne Knight Distance, Direction and Landscape: Cartographic Study in Picture Books
Philip Reeve Landscapes and Stories
Jane Carroll Storied Places and Emplaced Stories: Landscape in Welsh and Irish Fairy Tales
Levi Pinfold An Interview with an Artist: Levi Pinfold

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Spring 2019

Issue 54

Hobbies and Crafts in Children’s Books

EDITORIAL
Nicholas Tucker Down to the Sea in a Homemade Boat
Kimberley Reynolds Political Projects: Hobbies and Youth Activism in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain
Pat Pinsent Patchwork in Lucy Boston’s The Chimneys of Green Knowe: Structure and Metonymy
Susan Bailes Fashioning Dolls: Different Treatments and Attitudes Revealed in Children’s Texts
Maxine March Patchwork and Quilting: A Reflection on their Appearance in Children’s Books
Jemma Westing Out of the Box: Designing Books that Encourage and Inspire Making and Creating
June Hopper Swain Review: The Sword and the Broom: The Exceptional Career and Accomplishments of John Mercer Langston by Linda Salisbury

Summer 2019

Issue 55

Music and Children’s Literature

EDITORIAL
Janelle Mathis Giving Voice to the Global Community through Storied Experiences
Kevin Crossley-Holland A Sort of Song of Everything: Gatty’s Tale and Music
Tim Hopgood Creating Picture Books Around Music
Sophia Bennett On Music – The Making of Love Song
Phyllida Jacobs The Phoenix of Persia Revives an Ancient Story as a Multimedia Picture Book
Bridget Carrington Review: Reading & Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900–1960

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Autumn 2019

Issue 56

A Sense of Place: Scotland

EDITORIAL
Mairi Kidd Dreaming Big Dreams: Children’s Literature in Scotland
James Robertson Braw Books for Bairns o Aw Ages
Theresa Breslin The Making of a Scottish Author
Julie Bertagna Breaking New Ground in Young Scottish Fiction
Ann Lazim Selkies in Scotland
Daly, Nicola and Libby Limbrick (eds) (Advisory Editor Pam Dix) Review: Children’s Literature in a Multiliterate World

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Spring 2018

Issue 51

Fairy Tales

EDITORIAL
Beth Webb A Therapeutic Ogre
Dalila Forni ‘Old’ Ladies in New Spaces: Cinderella and Little Red in Modern Cities
Rebecca R. Butler A Flying Wheelchair and a Deaf Fairy: An Exploration of Disability in Fairy Tales
Delaram Ghanimifard One Story, Many Voices
June Hopper Swain A Puss without Boots: John Burningham’s It’s a Secret!
Judith Philo Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Reflections on Fairy Tales by Katherine Langrish
June Hopper Swain Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Stories and Children’s Games: An Appreciation of the Pioneering Work of Iona and Peter Opie
Reviews

Summer 2018

Issue 52

Magical Reality

EDITORIAL
Piers Torday The Magic of Reality
Roger Mello Visual Magic Realism
Ian Dodds Magic in the Mundane: A Glimpse at the Picture-Book Art of Anthony Browne
Elizabeth Byrne Wandering in the Landscape of Magical Reality – Exploring David Almond’s Archive
Penny Thomas Magical Reality in Children’s Fiction
June Hopper Swain From a Child’s Perspective: Magical Reality in Narratives by Virginia Woolf, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Philippa Pearce
Reviews

Autumn 2018

Issue 53

Classics

EDITORIAL
Perry Nodelman Deciding which Children’s Books Are the Most
Debbie Reese An Indigenous Reader (and Mom, and Scholar) Reflects on Classics
Lucy Pearson Canon or Classic? Carnegie Medal Winners and ‘Instant Classic’ status
Darja Mazi–Leskovar Old English Classics in Slovenian Translation
Natasha Farrant On Writing Lydia, The Wild Girl of Pride and Prejudice
June Hopper Swain Illustrating Lewis Carroll and James Joyce: An Exhibition of the Work of John Vernon Lord
Reviews

Spring 2017

Issue 48

Powerful Imagination: Impact of the Image

EDITORIAL
Helen Limon Empathy: A Monstrous Call?
Elys Dolan Stories in Detail: Wimmelbooks and Narrative
Anna McQuinn What Are You Playing At?
June Hopper Swain ‘Bears Can’t Live in Houses with People, Can They …?’: Raymond Briggs’ Picture Book The Bear
Judith Philo Jane Ray: Illustrations for the Nightingale Project
Reviews

Summer 2017

Issue 49

Writing the Past: Why Historical Fiction?

EDITORIAL
Clive Barnes Children’s Historical Fiction in Ten (+1) Quotes
Dawn Finch Past Imperfect: A Look at Children’s Historical Fiction
Rachel E. Johnson George Alfred Henty Writing the Past
Mary Hoffman The Ravenmaster’s Boy
Ann Lazim The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Children’s Fiction: Social Class in the Struggle for the Vote
June Hopper Swain The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Reviews

Autumn 2017

Issue 50

The Baltic States

EDITORIAL
Jaanika Palm Children’s Literature in Estonia
Ilze Stikāne Children’s Literature in Latvia
Kęstutis Urba Children’s Literature in Lithuania
Santa Remere Poems with Crumpled Corners
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and V. Geetha Another History of the Children’s Picture Book
Ruta Sepetys Salt for the Sea
Reviews

Spring 2016

Issue 45

Steering the Craft

EDITORIAL
A note about the illustration on the front cover
David Fickling Granny’s Table: Navigating the Process of Publishing Children’s Books in the 21st Century
Jane Winterbotham So you Want to Be an Editor?
Jane Ray The Alchemy of the Picture Book
Chantal Wright The British Teacup’s Edge
Mairi Kidd A Canary down the Mine: A Gaelic Reading Club for Children
Daniel Hahn Good Companions
June Hopper-Swain Happy Birthday Alice! An Exhibition at the British Library to Celebrate 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland
Robina Pelham Burn The Stephen Spender Prize 2015 for Poetry in Translation in association with The Guardian
Reviews

Summer 2016

Issue 46

Refugees

EDITORIAL
Oralia Garza de Cortes Books from Unaccompanied Children @ the Border REFORMA’s Children in Crisis Project
Carol Thompson, Monica Dobson and Elaine Marriott Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants
Elizabeth Laird The only Good Thing about this Place is Peace
Christiane Raabe and Claudia Soeffner Hello, Dead Enemy! Picture Books for Peace and Humanity: An exhibition by the International Youth Library in Munich
Ann Lazim Books about Refugees and the Experience of Migration
June Hopper Swain Seven Kinds of Magic: An Exhibition to Launch the Quentin Black Gallery at The House of Illustration
June Hopper Swain Current and Forthcoming Quentin Blake Exhibitions at The House of Illustration
Reviews

Autumn 2016

Issue 47

Childhood

EDITORIAL
Hugh Cunningham What’s Happened to Childhood? A Tale of Two Narratives
Jacqueline Wilson My Childhood
Paul Boateng A Childhood Remembered
Karenanne Knight Childhood and the Joy of Story for a Digital Generation from an Author-Illustrator Perspective
Kiera Vaclavik Introducing the Centre for Childhood Cultures – A Formal Partnership between Queen Mary University of London and the Victory and Albert Museum of Childhood
Susan Bailes Mathew Grenby’s The Child Reader 1700-1840
Reviews
23rd IBBY UK/NCRCL MA Annual Conference

Spring 2015

Issue 42

Belonging Is…

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

IBBYLink is the IBBY UK journal and is published three times a year covering key issues in children’s literature. Typically the journal focuses on a particular theme and articles relating to this are commissioned from a range of authors.