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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: [email protected] Bookbird’s editorial office is supported by the Augustana Faculty at the University of Alberta, Camrose, Alberta, Canada. Editorial Review Board: Peter E. Cumming, York University (Canada); Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong (Australia); Libby Gruner, University of Richmond (USA); Helene Høyrup, Royal School of Library & Information Science (Denmark); Judith Inggs, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); Ingrid Johnston, University of Albert, Faculty of Education (Canada); Shelley King, Queen’s University (Canada); Helen Luu, Royal Military College (Canada); Michelle Martin, University of South Carolina (USA); Beatriz Alcubierre Moya, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (Mexico); Lissa Paul, Brock University (Canada); Laura Robinson, Royal Military College (Canada); Bjorn Sundmark, Malmö University (Sweden); Margaret Zeegers, University of Ballarat (Australia); Board of Bookbird, Inc. (an Indiana not-for-profit corporation): Valerie Coghlan (Ireland), President; Ellis Vance (USA), Treasurer; Junko Yokota (USA), Secretary; Hasmig Chahinian (France), Angela Lebedeva (Russia) Advertising Manager: Ellis Vance ([email protected]) Production: Design and layout by Bill Benson, Texas, USA Printed by The Sheridan Press, Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature (ISSN 0006-7377) is a refereed journal published quarterly in Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall by IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People, and distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 USA. Periodicals postage paid at Baltimore, Maryland, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Bookbird, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals Division, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 USA. CANADA POSTMASTER: Bookbird, Publications Mail Registration Number 40600510. Send address corrections to The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363 USA. Subscriptions to Bookbird: See last page. IBBY Executive Committee 2012-2014: Ahmad Redza Ahmad Khairuddin (Malaysia), President; Linda Pavonetti Vice President (USA); Hasmig Chahinian (France), Vice President; Marilar Aleixandre (Spain); Gülçin Alpöge (Turkey); Nadia El Kholy (Egypt); Kiyoko Matsuoka (Japan), Azucena Galindo (Mexico); Angela Lebedeva (Russia); Akoss Ofori-mensah (Ghana); Timotea Vrablova (Slovakia), Voting Members; María Jesús Gil (Spain), Andersen Jury President; Elizabeth Page (Switzerland), Executive Director; Ellis Vance (USA), Treasurer; Roxanne Harde (Canada), Bookbird Editor. IBBY may be contacted at Nonnenweg 12 Postfach, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel: +4161 272 29 17 fax: +4161 272 27 57 email: [email protected] <www.ibby.org>. Bookbird is indexed in Library Literature, Library and Information Abstracts (LISA), Children’s Book Review Index, and the MLA International Bibliography. Cover image: Cover Image From Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch © 2007 Verlag Antje Kunstmann GmbH, München © 2008, 2011 Gecko Press, www.geckopress.com We warmly thank Mr. Erlruch and the presses for permission to use this image on our cover. Editorial | v Death and the Empathic Embrace in Four Contemporary Picture Books Lesley Clement | 1 Picturing Difference: Three Recent Picture Books Portray the Black Nova Scotian Community Vivian Howard | 11 Images of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Class Struggle in Communist Albanian Children’s Literature and Media Enkelena Shockett Qafleshi | 21 Exploring the Text/Image Wilderness: Ironic Visual Perspective and Critical Thinking in George O’Connor’s Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country Feature Articles William Boerman-Cornell | 29 Teacher Authored Supplementary Reading Materials in South Africa Misty Sailors, Miriam Martinez, and Lorena Villarreal | 35 Immigrants and Immigration in Portuguese Children’s Literature Maria da Conceição Tomé and Glória Bastos | 47 The School as Mediator when Constituting the Family of Readers Yara Maria Miguel | 57 Wadadli Pen and Young Writers in the Caribbean Joanne C. Hillhouse | 63 The Challenge: A Reader-Centered Programme for Young Adults in Children & Their Books Vocational Colleges Fieke Van der Gucht | 68 The IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People Heidi Boiesen | 74 Letters “To Hand out the Stars”: Jane Langton's Fiction for Children Crystal Hurdle | 79 Setting up a Research Collection Rachel Johnson | 83 IBBY.ORG 51.4 – 2013 | i Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms by Sara L. Schwebel Rebecca Berger | 86 Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Nathalie op de Beeck Valerie Coghlan | 88 De Tintin au Congo à Odilon Verjus : le missionnaire, héros de la BD belge [Tintin from Congo to Odilon Verjus : the Missionary Hero of the Belgian Comics] by Philippe Delisle Soizik Jouin, translated by Hasmig Chahinian | 91 Bande dessinée franco-belge et imaginaire colonial : des années 1930 aux années 1980 [Franco-Belgian Comics and Colonial Imagination: From the 1930s to the 1980s] by Philippe Delisle Soizik Jouin, translated by Hasmig Chahinian | 92 The Nation in Children’s Literature: Nations of Childhood edited by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark Erin Spring | 93 Children’s Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation Reviews of Secondary Literature by Rebecca Knuth Vanessa Warne | 95 Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque by Cherie Allan Valerie Coghlan | 97 Les Enfants de Mussolini : littérature, livres, lectures d’enfance et de jeunesse sous le fascisme : de la Grande Guerre à la chute du régime [Mussolini’s Children: literature, books, childhood and teenage years’ readings under Fascism: from the Great War to the fall of the regime] by Mariella Colin Lise Chapuis, translated by Marine Planche | 99 ¡No!, dijo el pequeño monstruo [“No!,” Said the Little Monster] by Kalle Güettler and Rakel Heimisdal, illus. by Áslaug Jónsdóttir Deena Hinshaw | iv Orchards by Holly Thompson Sylvia Vardell | iv The Mysterious Francois Leaf Monkeys by Liu Xianping Doris Audet | 56 Bókasafn ömmu Huldar [Grandmother’s Library] Þórarinn Leifsson Postcards Natalie M. Van Deusen | 62 The statue which became prosperous by Narges Abyar, illus. by Hamidreza Akram Bahar Eshragh | 67 Raccontare gli alberi [Telling Trees] by Mauro Evangelista, illus. by Pia Valenti Melissa Garavini | 78 ii | booKbirD IBBY.ORG (cont.) Hurrem by Baris Pirhasan, illus. by Ceren Oykut Tulin Kozikoglu | 104 Holz: Was unsere welt zusammenhält [Wood: What keeps our world together] by Reinhard Osteroth, illus. by Moidi Kretschmann Linda Dütsch | 116 Postcards Report International Youth Library [Direktion Internationale Jugendbibliothek] Report Christiane Raabe and Jochen Weber | 102 Focus IBBY Elizabeth Page | 105 Our Forthcoming Issues: 52.1 (2014) The Queer Issue 52.2 (2014) HCA Award Nominees 52.3 (2014) Mexico City Congress Issue: Children’s Literature in Latin America 52.4 (2014) HCA Awards and Open Themed IBBY.ORG 51.4 – 2013 | iii With vivid and emotionally evocative illustrations, “No!”, said the Little Monster brings to life the struggle between rce l staying silent when a friend does something wrong, or a o B speaking up and risking the friendship. When the big n 2010 a monster comes over to play, the little monster runs through a list of all the times in the past when his friend has caused s p damage or hurt others’ feelings and the little monster hadn’t a dared to say anything. The litany of past frustrations gives i n him the courage to say “No!” this time, prompting an unex- pected reaction from his friend. The importance of speaking up is portrayed with just the right mix of humor and serious- ness, in a way that both children and adults can enjoy. As a Kalle Güettler and Rakel Heimisdal part of a larger series, including a companion book called ¡No!, dijo el pequeño monstruo Big Monsters Don’t Cry, it also shows the different perspec- [“No!”, said the Little Monster] tives inside a friendship and how one situation can be per- ceived very differently. This book can be a starting place for Illus. Áslaug Jónsdóttir a conversation about why friends might do things that feel Barcelona: Beascoa, Random House, hurtful and how important it is to speak up for core values, 2010. reinforcing that conflict can even strengthen friendships. 36 p. ISBN: 978-84-488-3002-1 Deena Hinshaw (Picture Book, 3+) Yor w k e n 2011 k n When a young girl takes her own life and her circle of peers is r complicit, Kana is sent to her mother’s childhood home, a small e o w Y village in Japan, to visit with her extended family. She reflects