A JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 2018, VOL . 56, NO .1 The Journal of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People Copyright © 2018 by Bookbird, Inc. Reproduction of articles in Bookbird requires permission in writing from the editor. Editor: Björn Sundmark, Malmö University, Sweden. Address for submissions and other editorial correspondence: [email protected]. Bookbird’s editorial office is supported by the Faculty of Education, Malmö University, Sweden Editorial Review Board: Peter E. 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Contents Editorial by Björn Sundmark 2 Introduction by Anna Kerchy 4 Articles Translated into British: European Children’s Literature, (In)difference and Écart in the Age of Brexit by Clémentine Beauvais 10 Grammars of New Media: Interactive Trans-Sensory Storytelling and Empathic Reading Praxis in Jessica Anthony’s and Rodrigo Corral’s Chopsticks by Cheryl Cowdy 20 Foreignizing Domestications and Illustrating Bridges in James Joyce’s The Cat and the Devil and Its French Translations by Aneesh Barai 28 Picturebooks in a Minority Language Setting: Intra-cultural Transformations by Hannah Felce 36 Omne vetus Novum Est Iterum: The Rise of Latin translation in children’s literature by Carl F Miller 46 Letters Meänkieli Children’s Literature by Lydia Kokkola 56 Translators and Their Books I am a Translator, a Transmittor of Culture by Anna Becchi. 62 Books on Books Reviews collected and edited by Christiane Raabe and Jutta Reusch, IYL 66 Children and Their Books ViVaVostok: Literature for Children and Young Adults from Central and Eastern Europe in the German-Speaking Area by Katja Wiebe, International Youth Library 74 Focus IBBY edited by Liz Page 84 Postcards edited by Barbara Lehman 19, 45, 54-55, 61, 65 IBBY.ORG 1 56.1–2018 Editorial WITH THE FOUNDATION OF IBBY, the Inter- and genres. Through such adaptation work, books Marat, is so well-known, looms so large, and its For a more extensive commentary on the national Youth Library, and Bookbird, Jella Lepman are given new lease of life and can continue to style of painting has been so meticulously copied theme, I refer you to Anna Kerchy, who presents concretized the idea put forth by French critic Paul “promote understanding” of different times, cultures, that it is still in a sense visible through Junakovic’s the featured articles, in her critical introduction to Hazard that children’s literature can portray both and languages. “translation.” If so, one could argue that Marat is the study of translation and transmedia. what makes every culture unique and what is uni- The process of “translation” can be rather still there, but turned chicken—through a process of Finally, having prepared this issue, and seen the versal: our “humanity.” In consequence, by reading intricate and take unexpected turns. The cover of zoomorphism (turning men into beasts), which is potential in the material, I have come to recognize books in other languages and from culture rather this issue of Bookbird is a case in point. The image the opposite of anthropomorphism. However, with how well it fits the mission of IBBY. With this in than our own, we can gain an understanding of oth- is from Svjetlan Junakovic’s Great Book of Animal Junakovic’s painting it is impossible to say if the mind, I want to propose to Bookbird’s readers and to er cultures, as well as realize our common humanity, Portraits (2007) and represents a murdered chicken animal has turned man or the man turned animal. IBBY that an award for the translation of children’s and this can bring us closer to each other. Ultimately, in a bathtub. One can regard it as a translation or Thus, Junakovic subtly calls the human-animal books should be established. It would, alongside reading is a peace project—hence IBBY’s stated reinterpretation of Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 divide into question, something that is very much the H. C. Andersen Award, be a prize that fully mission “to promote international understanding painting The Death of Marat, which depicts the part of a contemporary discourse on posthumanism, encapsulates the spirit of IBBY—a translation prize through children’s books” (mission statement, IBBY murder of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday the animal rights, and the like. to promote international understanding through homepage). same year. It is one of the most famous images of And that is just the cover! children’s books. As editor of Bookbird, I naturally see it as my and from the French Revolution and has been com- ambition to promote a better understanding of pared to Michelangelo’s Pietà and Caravaggio’s The children’s literature. With the global reach of Book- Entombment of Christ. It has inspired later painters— bird, I also recognize that we are excellently placed like Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, who made to promote not just understanding but international their own versions of The Death of Marat—and is also understanding of and through children’s literature. frequently alluded to in popular culture (film, PC We attempt this with every issue in our choice of ar- games, etc.). What Junakovic does with his version ticles, reviews, exhibitions, and interviews. However, could be seen as mere subversion,