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Connolly | 1 Pathways’ End: The Space of Trauma in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Adrienne Kertzer | 10 Hearing the Voices of “Comfort Women”: Confronting Historical Trauma in Korean Children’s Literature Yoo Kyung Sung | 20 Representations of Trauma and Recovery in Contemporary North American and Australian Teen Fiction Kate Norbury | 31 Feature Articles Resistant Rituals: Self-Mutilation and the Female Adolescent Body in Fairy Tales and Young Adult Fiction Cheryl Cowdy | 42 Death Row Everyman: Stanislas Gros’s Image-Based Interpretation of Victor Hugo’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man Amelia Fedo | 53 Journal Writing about Literature: A Journey towards Selfhood Meg Fargher | 62 Cheering Ourselves Up through Children's Books: Bookbird Helps Quake-hit North Children & Their Books Japan Kimiko Matsui | 69 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Trauma and Children’s Literature in the Nineteenth-Century Samantha Christensen | 75 Letters Depictions of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Juvenile Fiction Fengxia Tan | 78 IBBY.ORG No. 1 – 2012 | i How Children Experience Trauma and How Parents Can Help Them Cope by Meg Fargher and Helen Dooley Karyn Huenemann | 82 Brave New Worlds. Old and New Classics of Children’s Literature edited by Elena Paruolo José Igor Prieto-Arranz | 83 Littérature, jeunesse et handicap : questions d’accès, questions de construction [Literature, Youth and Handicap: Questions of access, questions of construction] edited by Françoise Hache-Bissette, Evelyne Justin-Joseph, Christine André-Bataille, and Marguerite Reviews Perdriault Marie-Ange Pompignoli. Trans. by Hasmig Chahinian | 85 Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature by Emer O’Sullivan Bridget Carrington | 87 Écrire et traduire pour les enfants : voix, images et mots. [Writing and Translating for Children: voices, images and texts] edited by Elena Di Giovanni, Chiara Elefante and Roberta Pederzoli Christa Delahaye. Trans. by Hasmig Chahinian | 90 On the Border of the Possible / Na mezhi mozhlyvoho by Oleksa Bilobrov Oksana Lushchevska | 41 Dollo Jieun Jeol, Seokguram / Temple Built of Stone, Seokguram by Kim-Mi hye. Illus. by Choe-Mi ran. Pam Chamberlain | 52 Cesar in roža / The Emperor and the Rose by Bina Štampe Žmavc. Illus. by Alenka Sottler. Gaja Kos | 61 Postcards Playground: Listening to Stories from Country and from Inside the Heart compiled by Nadia Wheatley. Illus. by Ken Searle Robin Morrow | 68 Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives by Marthe Jocelyn Karyn Huenemann | 74 Focus IBBY | 91 ii | booKbirD IBBY.ORG Editorial Bookbird