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A JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 2018, VOL . 56, NO .4 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. Cumming, York University (Canada); Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong (Australia); Helene Høyrup, Royal School of Library & Information Science (Denmark); Judith Inggs, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); Ingrid Johnston, University of Alberta (Canada); Michelle Martin, University of South Carolina (USA); Beatriz Alcubierre Moya, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (Mexico); Lissa Paul, Brock University (Canada); Margaret Zeegers, University of Ballarat (Australia); Lydia Kokkola, Luleå University (Sweden); Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta (Canada), Gargi Gangophadhyay, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan (India); Tami al-Hazza, Old Dominion University (USA); Farideh Pourgiv, Shiraz University Center for Children’s Literature Studies (Iran); Anna Kérchy, University of Szeged (Hungary); Andrea Mei Ying Wu, National Cheng kung University (Taiwan); Junko Sakoi, Tucson, AZ, (USA). Board of Bookbird, Inc. (An Indiana not-for-profit corporation): Valerie Coghlan President; Ellis Vance Treasurer; Junko Yokota Secretary; Hasmig Chahinian; Sylvia Vardell. Advertising Manager: Ellis Vance ([email protected]) Production: Design and layout by Mats Hedman. Printed by The Sheridan Press, Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature (ISSN 0006-7377) issue October 2018 is a refereed journal published quarterly in January, April, July and October by IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People, and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 USA. Periodicals postage paid at Baltimore, Maryland, 21233-9651, and at additional mailing offices.Postmaster: Send address changes to Bookbird, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 USA. Canada postmaster: Bookbird, Publications Mail Registration Number 40600510. Send address corrections to Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 USA. Subscriptions to Bookbird: See last page IBBY Executive Committee 2018-2020: Mingzhou Zhang (China) President; Anastasia Arkhipova (Russia) Vice President; Carole Bloch (South Africa) Vice President; Hasmig Chahinian (France); Zohreh Ghaeni (Iran); Sophie Hallam (UK); Basarat Midhat Kazim (Pakistan); Ahmad Redza Ahmad Khairuddin (Malaysia); Shereen Kreidieh (Lebanon); Nora Lía Sormani (Argentina); Sylvia Vardell (USA). Non-Voting Members: Junko Yokota (USA) Hans Christian Andersen Jury President; Elizabeth Page (Switzerland) Executive Director; Ellis Vance (USA) Treasurer; Janelle Mathis (USA) and Petros Panaou (USA) Bookbird Editors. IBBY may be contacted at Nonnenweg 12 Postfach, CH-4009 Basel, Switzerland, tel: +4161 272 29 17 fax: +4161 272 27 57 email: [email protected] Bookbird is indexed in Library Literature, Library and Information Abstracts (LISA), Children’s Book Review Index, Web of Science, and the MLA International Bibliography. The cover illustration is from The Four Seasons of the Birds in Taiwan (2010) by Hwa-Jen Ho, published by Star-Moon Publishers, and reproduced by permission. Contents Editorial by Björn Sundmark 2 Articles Dis/placed in Canada: A Québécois Graphic Novel in Translation Novel by Geneviève Brisson and Theresa Rogers 4 The Changing Treatment of Disability in Children’s Literature in India by Dipavali Debroy 14 The Child’s Death as Punishment or Nonsense? Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1963) and the Cautionary Verse Tradition by Emily Petermann 22 Clashes of Modernity in Chilean Contemporary Young Adult Novels: Al sur de la Alameda. Diario de una toma and Nieve Negra by Luz Santa Maria 31 Charles Dickens and the Child Narrator: Literary and Sociolinguistic Reflections on A Holiday Romance (1868) by Beatrice Moja 38 Into the Dark Woods: A Cross-Cultural Re-Imagination of Home by Marija Todorova 46 The Portrayal of Animals in Two Iranian Picturebooks by Maryam Izadi 53 Family First in Homes Away From Home: Depictions of Refugee Experiences and Flight from War in Picturebooks Published in Sweden 2014–2018 by Åsa Warnqvist 60 Authors and Their Books PJ Lynch by Valerie Coghlan 72 Children and Their Books Creating Nations from Silent Books by Debbie Thomas 76 Grief, Grieving, or Grieved: Michael Rosen’s Sad Book and How to Cope with Grief for Kids and Grown-Ups by Catherine-Laura Tremblay-Dion and Shoshana Magnet 80 Letters A Symphony of Poems and Pictures: Hwa-Jen Ho’s Nonfiction Picturebooks about Wild Birds in Taiwan by Yi-Ching Su 84 Focus IBBY edited by Liz Page 88 Postcards edited by Barbara Lehman 13, 95 IBBY.ORG 1 56.4–2018 Editorial hat has been achieved during tor. The authors of the fifty-nine published peer-re- Heyman), Indigenous Children’s Literature (Rox- Finally, I would like to thank the designer, Mats these past four years? Bookbird viewed articles come from twenty-five different anne Harde), Child Writers and Illustrators (Peter Hedman, and my copyeditor, Jasmin Salih, for their goes through a two-year pub- countries. Thirty-one of these articles were written Cumming), and Translation and Transmedia (Anna excellent work, as well as the ever supportive Book- lication cycle due to the bien- by authors from the English-speaking world (USA, Kérchy). As single editor, it has been a particular de- bird Board and its president, Valerie Coghlan. My nial Hans Christian Andersen UK, NZ, AU, CAN), while the other twenty-eight light to me to collaborate with guest editors for the warmest thanks also to IBBY director, Liz Page, WAward, which we cover with two special issues. articles were written by authors from the rest of the special themes, including the congress issues (Anna and the IBBY Executive Committee. I have always Every other year, there is also the congress issue to world. If we look at the other texts, the spread is even Jackson and Petros Panaou). I also believe that the felt your encouragement, and I am thankful for the consider. Since the Andersen issues consist of com- better. This diversity of content is a hallmark of Book- special editors play a great role in furthering the friendly and warm support over these four years. missioned material, this was especially problematic bird, and I have worked hard to increase this diversity cause of Bookbird within the academic community. Over and Out, Björn when we ran both Andersen issues in the same year even further. Behind the scenes, I have pruned and An issue that gave me particular joy was the com- because we were likely to publish too few articles in renewed the editorial board. The present board is bined H. C. Andersen and 60 Years Commemora- that year (eight in total in 2016). However, for the pe- considerably less oriented towards North America; tive issue (55.4), since it gave me the opportunity ERRATA We regret that the first print run of 56.2 was affected by a design riod 2017–2018 the two Andersen issues came out it now includes specialists from most parts of the to communicate with my editor predecessors and error, pages 88-91 (in Focus IBBY). The electronic version is correct, however. We also apologize for the fault in the table of contents, issue 56.3, where in different years, which meant that we could pub- world. The only collaboration that, despite efforts, collect their reminiscences in that issue. New Zealand author Joy Cowley is registered under another nationality (US). lish three standard issues per year—with an average has not panned out the way I had hoped is with the of circa fifteen articles per year (see overview below). Bookbird correspondents; here there is room for im- This was an important reform for Bookbird, carried provement. out as part of the successful bid to be included in the Sixteen issues (including the upcoming Novem- SCOPUS journal ranking index, a distinction which ber issue) have been published. Of these, two have will make Bookbird even more attractive to publish in, been congress-themed, one New Zealand-Austra- BJÖRN SUNDMARK is Professor cite from, subscribe to, and download. lia-Oceania themed, and one Greece-Cyprus-Turkey of English Literature in the Faculty As editor, I have striven to develop the collab- themed. Two of them have covered the nominees of Education, Malmö University, oration with the International Youth Library, to for the H. C. Andersen Award, while two have been Sweden. He has published numerous articles on children’s which we have old ties, and have invited IYL to devoted to the H. C. Andersen Award winners and literature, and is the author of the write about their ongoing projects and exhibitions. shortlist. Of the remaining ten, five have been open; study Alice in the Oral-Literary Naturally, they have continued the reviews activity, the other five have been themed. The following Continuum (1999) and co-editor the Books on Books being a long-standing feature. topics have been covered (guest editor in parenthe- of The Nation in Children’s Literature (Routledge 2013). He is I also welcomed a suggestion from the Bookbird sis): Children’s Literature and the Posthuman (Zoe editor of Bookbird–Journal of Board to invite Barbara Lehman as Postcards edi- Jaques), Children’s Nonsense Literature (Michael International Children’s Literature. BOOKBIRD 2 IBBY.ORG IBBY.ORG 3 56.4–2018 DIS/PLACED IN CANADA: Articles A QUÉBÉCOIS GRAPHIC NOVEL IN TRANSLATION son and Edward Said, Canadian nationalist practices status and use of the English and French languages have been understood as the product of an imagined within Canadian society” (Official Language Act, community (Reimer). Historically, this imagined commu- Par. 2a). In accordance with this Act, French and En- Dis/placed in Canada: nity included images of the natural landscapes;4 how- glish have a special status in all federal institutions.