51.4 (2013) Feature Articles: Death and the Empathic Embrace in Four Contemporary Picture Books • Picturing Difference: Three Recent Picture Books Portray the Black Nova Scotian Community • Images of Ethnic- ity, Nationality, and Class Struggle in Communist Albanian Children’s Literature and Media • Exploring the Text/Image Wilderness • Teacher Authored Supplementary Reading Materials in South Africa • Immi- grants and Immigration in Portuguese Children’s Literature • Children & Their Books • Letters • Reviews The Journal of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People Copyright © 2013 by Bookbird, Inc. Reproduction of articles in Bookbird requires permission in writing from the editor. Editor: Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta—Augustana Faculty (Canada) Address for submissions and other editorial correspondence:
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