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ALL CHILD REN ARE OUR CHILDREN, SAID THE VOICE IN A KINDLY TONE Editorial | ii ALL OURS ! THE D DIFFE IFFE LL, OF RENT F RENT ONES AS WE ATES ES, AND FAITHS AND RAC Red, Yellow, and Black: Australian Indigenous publishing for young people Robyn Sheahan-Bright | 1 Examining Hebrew-Amharic bilingual children’s literature in Israel: Language, themes, and power Lea Baratz and Sara Zamir | 18 Folk literature and the preservation of culture: New approaches to African storytelling Vivian Yenika-Agbaw | 25 L THE WHITE AND BLACK, L AL ALL THE HUNGRY AND IL ARE JUST LIKE ANY ONE AMONG US Sparkling vampires: Valorizing self-harming behavior in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series Lydia Kokkola | 33 Pinocchio’s road to adulthood from Carlo Collodi to Christos Boulotis Elena Staniou and Tasoula Tsilimeni | 47 , TOGETHER IN THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN THIS GREAT VILLAGE SHARED Picture books in China from 1950-1966: A snapshot Qi Tongwei | 55 “Barrier—Free Books from Around the World”– IBBY traveling exhibitions come to Japan Hisako Kakuage | 61 EACH IS SIMIL AR TO YOU AND ME, EACH IS THE SUN AND EACH THE DAWN. Books on Books | 69 Focus IBBY | 75 Poems | 91/92 The quoted lines for each section of the table of contents are excerpted from the poem, “Vsi Naši Otroci”—“All Our Children,” by Tone Pavček, from his book, Majhnice in majnice, Pesmi mnogih let za mnoge bralce = Budding Songs, Maying Songs, poem translated by Alan McConnell-Duff, illustrated by Damijan Stepančič, published by Miš, Dob pri Domžalah, Slovenia, copyright 2009, p. 221, used with permission. editoral Editorial Bookbird editors Dear Bookbird Readers, ur July 2011 issue presents a wide range of articles that are at times disparate and sometimes resonant with intersecting SYLVIA VARDELL is a professor themes. In the first three articles one can hear a common at Texas Woman’s University (USA) refrain regarding the value of telling one’s own story with language where she teaches graduate courses O in children’s literature. She is the as an expression of identity. Next is a duet of articles focusing on author of CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN works of modern fantasy, one involves an analysis of a contempo- ACTION: A LIBRARIAN’S GUIDE and the PoetryForChildren blog. rary series and the other focuses on an old favorite classic tale that is transplanted to a different setting. The last two articles hail from Asia; one explores the history of original picture books from China, the other shares how IBBY’s vision of books as a way to promote understanding plays out through JBBY’s traveling exhibitions. Feature Articles First of our trio is Red, Yellow, and Black: Australian Indigenous CATHERINE KURKJIAN is a publishing for young people by Robyn Sheahan-Bright. In this piece professor in the Department of Reading she outlines the portrayal of indigenous cultures in Australian and Language Arts at Central Connecticut literature for young people from the time of white settlement to State University (USA) where she teaches courses in Reading and Language Arts the current day. She shows over time a movement from literature and Children’s Literature. Her areas of presented through non-Indigenous eyes, that was fraught with specialization include children’s literature and the intersection of literacy and cultural biases and stereotypes, to a slowly emerging authentic litera- technology. ture rich in the wide diversities that exist among Indigenous peoples 2 | bookbird © 2011 by Bookbird, Inc. editorIAL of Australia.