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2020

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Issue 57

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

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Families in Children’s Literature: It Takes All Sorts

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A Sense of Place: Landscape

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2019

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Hobbies and Crafts in Children’s Books

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Music and Children’s Literature

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A Sense of Place: Scotland

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2018

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Fairy Tales

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Summer 2018

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Magical Reality

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Classics

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2017

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Powerful Imagination:

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Summer 2017

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Writing the Past:

Why Historical Fiction?

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Autumn 2017

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The Baltic States

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2016

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Steering the Craft

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Refugees

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Childhood

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2015

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Belonging Is…

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Fairy Tales: The Imaginative World of ‘Once upon a Time’

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Latin America & Mexico

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2014

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Feast of Famine? Food and Children’s Literature

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Summer 2014

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Facts rather than Fiction: Information Books

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Bridging the Gap

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2013

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Beyond the Book

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Children’s Literature in Ireland

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Picture Books for Older Readers

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2012

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It Doesn’t Have to Rhyme: Children and Poetry

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Summer 2012

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Olympic Games and Sport

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33rd IBBY International Congress, London

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2011

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Conflicts and Controversies

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South Africa

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Children and Libraries

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2010

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Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People

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Wars and Conflicts

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Australia

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2009

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

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The Family

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Number

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2008

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What do you see?

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Children’s Books in Central Europe

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Gendered Reading

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2007

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

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Children’s Books and Environmental Issues

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Scotland and Children’s Literature

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2006

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No child is an island

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Graphic Novels

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Non-Fiction for Children

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2005

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East meets West in Children’s Literature

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Poetry for children

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Science fiction and dystopias

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2004

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Report of Conference

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Illustration

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Africa

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2003

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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
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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
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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

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
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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

Spring 2010

Issue 27

Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People

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

Spring 2005

Issue 12

East meets West in Children’s Literature

EDITORIAL
U. C. Knoepﬂmacher The Bilingual Imagination of the Anglo-Indian Child
Mary Cadogan A Hundred Years of Eastern Characters
Preetha Leela Gulmohar Trees and Cream Teas
Gita Wolf New Meanings of Multiculturalism: Books from India
Sandra J. Williams Writing Singapore
Sophie Mackay Jamila Gavin’s Surya Trilogy
Other Plenary Sessions
- Pat Pinsent Exoticism and Evangelism
- Marian Allsobrook Shaping a New China
- Ann Lazim The Representation of Arabs in Children’s Literature
- Rehana Ahmed Walking a Tightrope
- Taraneh Matloob Children’s Literature in Iran
Diana Wynne Jones 70th birthday
- Nicholas Tucker Recollections
- Farah Mendlesohn Denying the Exoticism of the Other
- Lisa Sainsbury Japan’s Studio Ghibli
- Charlie Butler The People’s Diana Wynne Jones
Reviews
New/Notes/Conferences etc

Summer 2005

Issue 13

Poetry for children

EDITORIAL
Anne Harvey A Place for Poetry
Richard Tysoe Writing, Publishing and Performing Poetry for Children
Pam Robson Recommended Collections of Poetry for Children
Miriam Valencia The Poetry Library
Ann Lazim The CLPE Poetry Award
Pat Pinsent CLPE Poetry Award Ceremony 2005
Reviews
Ann Lazim IBBY News
Pat Pinsent Jacqueline Wilson: Children’s Laureate
Patricia Crampton Hans Christian Down Under
June Hopper Hans Christian at the British Library
Other news, events, conferences

Autumn 2005

Issue 14

Science fiction and dystopias

EDITORIAL
Luke Slater Science Fiction – what is it?
Farah Mendlesohn The Transgender Factor
Kim Reynolds New dystopias and children’s literature
Noga Applebaum The Evils of Technology
Kevin McCarron Children’s Dystopias
Bridget Carrington Historical If …
Pam Robson, with Nikki Gamble and Pat Pinsent Dystopian Societies
Reviews
News and Conferences

Spring 2004

Issue 9

Report of Conference

EDITORIAL
Ann Thwaite, Penelope Lively, Teresa Breslin and Linda Newbery Conference Welcome & Context
Marilyn Brocklehurst, Clare Walsh, Brenda Gardner and Katharn Turner Insights into Popularity
Elizabeth Laird, Sue Neale, Mieke Desmet, Penni Cotton, Gaby Thompson-Wohlgemuth, Belen Gonzalez-Cascallena International Children’s Literature
Natasha Baker, Maiko Miyoshi, Peter Bramwell and Rachel Falconer Heroes, History & Autobiographies
James Naughtie, Catherine Buscall and Antonia Harding-Shackleford Babies,Young Children & Reading
Sarah Godek, Sophie Mackay and Jenny Kendrick Exploring the Boundaries
Reviews
Events and Publications

Summer 2004

Issue 10

Illustration

EDITORIAL
Prue Goodwin, Ken Wilson-Max Picture Book Illustration
A Publisher’s Perspective
Bridget Carrington, Posey Furnish, Pam Robson British Picturebooks
IBBY UK Update
A Cross-Cultural Literacy Experience
June Hopper, Ed Zaghini International Exhibits & Courses
Nadia Crandall William Blake
Articles continued
Events and Publications

Autumn 2004

Issue 11

Africa

EDITORIAL
Beverley Naidoo Out of Bounds: Witness Literature
Elizabeth Laird Stories from the Source of the Nile
Meshack Asare Writing for Children and Young People in Africa: the Macmillan Writer’s Prize
Dianne Hofmeyr Who Owns the Bones?
A conversation with Eileen Browne Being Accurate in Depicting Africa
Pat Thompson Go, Africa!
Pam Robson Review: New Voices in Children’s Literature
IBBY Congress Report and News
Events and Publications

Summer 2003

Issue 6

EDITORIAL
AGM
Books and Human Rights
News
Books
Calendar

Autumn 2003

Issue 7

EDITORIAL
Humour
Reviews
IBBY Recommends
IBBY updates
Calendar

Winter 2003

Issue 8

EDITORIAL
IBBY Jubilee
IBBY conference papers
Books
Calendar

Spring 2002

Issue 3

EDITORIAL
Nominations for the Andersen Awards
IBBY conference papers
IBBY News
Books
Calendar

Summer 2002

Issue 4

EDITORIAL
AGM
Foreign Books in the UK
Translated books in the world
Reviews
Congress update
Calendar

Autumn 2002

Issue 5

EDITORIAL
Religion in Children’s Books
Books
Calendar

Autumn 2001

Issue 1

EDITORIAL
British IBBY Activities
On Being the Children’s Laureate
Reports
From India
Recent Books
Calendar

Winter 2001

Issue 2

EDITORIAL
British IBBY Activities
Writers and Disability
Disability in Children’s Books
Books
Write Away!
Calendar