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| Editor | Dr. Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 4 per year |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Baltimore |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0006-7377 |
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature (ISSN 0006-7377) is the official refereed journal of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). It is published quarterly and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Bookbird aims to communicate new ideas to the world-wide community of readers interested in children's books; it is open to any topic in the field of international children's literature. Each issue includes articles and information about children’s literature from many countries. Regular features include peer-reviewed articles, shorter articles about children’s books and their creators, interviews with authors and illustrators, reading promotion projects worldwide, and reviews of children’s books and scholarly books from around the world.
Recent issues of Bookbird include articles on dual-language picturebooks, global rainbow families, children’s literature in Russia, depictions of immigrant children in school settings, revolutionary children’s literature in 1930s China, the portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature, and an examination of the social responsibility of bookmakers, readers and educators. The regular ‘Focus IBBY’ section highlights news of IBBY projects and events, and the ‘Books on Books’ section recently included reviews of texts from China, France, Japan, Poland, Scotland, and the USA. Issues of Bookbird vary between open issues and themed issues. Calls for manuscripts are posted on the IBBY website. [1]
Every two years an issue of Bookbird is devoted to information about the illustrators and authors nominated for IBBY’s Hans Christian Andersen Award. After the winners are announced, a subsequent issue carries articles about these, and also about the short-listed nominees. In a year when the biennial IBBY congress is held, an issue of Bookbird highlights the children’s literature of the congress host country and region.
The first issue of Bookbird was published in 1957 as a newsletter, by the founder of IBBY, Jella Lepman. The publication, Bookbird: A Flight Through Time (2021) recounts in words and pictures the story of Bookbird from its modest beginnings to an international journal with subscribers worldwide. Contributors include articles by or about those who have been involved with the story of Bookbird over some sixty years, providing insights into the development of children’s literature in Europe and further afield. Photoessays include a history of the International Youth Library in Munich, which was the first home of Bookbird, and concludes with a photoessay about the work of IBBY and Bookbird in the twenty-first century.
Bookbird is indexed by Scopus, Library Literature, LISA, Children’s Book Review Index, Web of Science, MLA International Bibliography. Bookbird is available by subscription in print and online through Johns Hopkins University Press, [2] and individual articles are available online via Project Muse and ProQuest. Back issues from 1963 to 2013 are archived and free to access at Australian Literature Online. [3] Bookbird, Inc. is registered in Indiana, USA as a not-for-profit corporation. It is managed by the Bookbird, Inc. Board.
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature". The writing award was first given in 1956, the illustration award in 1966. The former is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for children's literature".
Paul Fleischman is an American writer of children's books. He and his father Sid Fleischman have both won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". For the body of his work he was the United States author nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2012.
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Children's Literature is an academic journal and annual publication of the Modern Language Association and the Children's Literature Association Division on Children's Literature. The journal was founded in 1972 by Francelia Butler and promotes a scholarly approach to the study of children's literature by printing theoretical articles and essays, as well as book reviews. The publication is currently edited by Amanda Cockrell, of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The current editor in chief is R. H. W. Dillard.
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Suzy Lee is a Korean picture-book illustrator and author. She is critically acclaimed as an artist who explores the pleasures and tensions that lie between reality and fantasy. She is also known for her remarkable achievements in the field of wordless picture books, or silent books. She gained global attention for her three works – Mirror (2003), Wave (2008), and Shadow (2010), known collectively as "The Border Trilogy" – using the center binding of the pages of a book as a means to create a narrative crossing the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Wave and Shadow were respectively named by The New York Times as Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008 and 2010. Wave was also awarded the gold medal for Original Art by the Society of Illustrators in 2008. In 2016, Suzy Lee was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, regarded as the Nobel Prize for children's literature, an award which she received in 2022. Lee has received a number of other prestigious awards from around the world including the FNLIJ Award Luís Jardim for the Best Book without Text in 2008 and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature in 2013.
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organisation to bring books and children together. In 1966, IBBY Australia was established and Ena Noël OAM became its first president and remained in this role for over 20 years.
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Robin Morrow AM is an Australian lecturer, critic and editor in children's literature. She is a past president of the Australian section of the International Board on Books for Young People IBBY Australia.
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Manorama Jafa is an Indian author of more than 100 books for children, as well as feminist novels for adults, and academic research and writing on children's literature. She has served as Secretary General of the Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children and as the Secretary General of the Indian National Section of the International Board on Books for Young People. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2014, and the Order of the Rising Sun in 2016.
The Danish author Louis Jensen was an innovator in the international literary trends of flash fiction, metafiction, prose poetry, and magical realism. While he published more than 90 books for both adults and children, he was best known for his children's books, which include picture books, short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction and novels. His work is characterized by wordplay and playful experiments in form and structure, which have led critics to draw comparisons to Borges, Calvino, Gogol, and the poetry of the Oulipo movement. His work is also rooted in the fairy tale and folk tale tradition, and is deeply influenced by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
Liu Xianping 刘先平 was a Chinese writer, best known for writing ecological literature, and children's books. He was known as the Father of Modern Nature Writing in China.
Zhu Chengliang 朱成梁 is a prizewinning Chinese author and illustrator of children's books, often using traditional Chinese painting styles.
Joanne Fitzgerald was a Canadian artist, illustrator and writer. Twice-shortlisted for the Canadian Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration, her book Dr. Kiss Says Yes won the award in 1991.
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The Jella Lepman medal is an award made to individuals and institutions that have made lasting contributions to children's literature. It is named after Jella Lepman (1891-1970), founder of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) and the International Youth Library (IYL) in Munich. It was created in 1991 to celebrate her 100th birthday. It was reinstated in 2005.