VOL. 50, NO.1 JANUARY 2012 FEATURED ARTICLES Surviving the Storm: Trauma and Recovery in Children’s Books about Natural Disasters • Pathways’ End: The Space of Trauma in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking • Hearing the Voices of “Comfort Women”: Confronting Historical Trauma in Korean Children’s Literature • Representations of Trauma and Recovery in Contemporary North American and Australian Teen Fiction • Resistant Rituals: Self-Mutilation and the Female Adolescent Body in Fairy Tales and Young Adult Fiction • Death Row Everyman: Stanislas Gros’s Image-Based Interpretation of Victor Hugo’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man Would you like to write for IBBY’s journal? Academic Articles ca. 4000 words The Journal of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People Bookbird publishes articles on children’s literature with an international perspective four times a year Copyright © 2012 by Bookbird, Inc. Reproduction of articles in Bookbird requires permission in writing from the (in January, April, July and October). Articles that compare literatures of different countries are of interest, editors. as are papers on translation studies and articles that discuss the reception of work from one country in Editors: Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta—Augustana Faculty (Canada) and Lydia Kokkola, University of Turku another. Articles concerned with a particular national literature or a particular book or writer may also be (Finland) suitable, but it is important that the article should be of interest to an international audience. Some issues are devoted to special topics. Details and deadlines of these issues are available from Bookbird’s web pages. Address for submissions and other editorial correspondence:
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