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They Enter the Book. Voilà VOL. 47, NO. 4 OCTOBER 2009 ON WAR: When Children Die in War; Death in War Literature for Children and Youth • Bringing Books and Children Together: Croatian War Experiences • Peace and Peacemakers in Books for Children • The War Inside Books • What Do We Tell the Children? War in the Work of Roberto Innocenti The Journal of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People Copyright © 2009 by Bookbird, Inc. Reproduction of articles in Bookbird requires permission in writing from the editor. Editors: Catherine Kurkjian and Sylvia Vardell Address for submissions and other editorial correspondence: kurkjianc@ gmail.com and kurkjianc@ comcast.net and [email protected] Bookbird’s editorial office is supported by Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT Editorial Review Board: Sandra Beckett (Canada),Emy Beseghi (Italy), Ernest Bond (USA), Penni Cotton (UK), Hannelore Daubert (Germany), Claire Malarte-Feldman (USA), Erica Hateley (Australia), Nancy Hadaway (USA), Hans-Heino Ewers (Germany), Janet Hilbun (USA), Jeffrey Garrett (USA), June Jacko (USA), Kerry Mallan (Australia), Nadia El Kholy (Egypt), Kerry Mallan (Australia), Chloe Mauger (Australia), Lissa Paul (USA), Linda Pavonetti (USA), Ira Saxena (India), Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg (Denmark), Deborah Soria (Italy), Liz Thiel (UK), Mary Shine Thompson (Ireland), Mudite Treimane (Latvia), Jochen Weber (Germany), Terrell A. Young (USA) Board of Bookbird, Inc. (an Indiana not-for-profit corporation): Joan Glazer (USA), President; Ellis Vance (USA), Treasurer; Alida Cutts (USA), Secretary; Mingzhou Zhang (China); James Tumusiine (Uganda) Advertising Manager: Ellis Vance ([email protected]) Production: Design and layout by Charlsa Kern, Texas, USA Proofread by Connie Rockman, Connecticut, 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 January, April, July, and October 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. 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 inside back cover IBBY Executive Committee 2008-2010: Patricia Aldana (Canada), President; Reina Duarte (Spain) and Ahmad Redza Ahmad Khairuddin (Malaysia); Vice President; Anastasia Arkhipova (Russia); Elisa Bonilla (Mexico); Hannelore Daubert (Germany); Wally de Doncker (Belgium); Nikki Gamble (UK); Jehan Helou (Palestine); James Tumusiine (Uganda); Mingzhou Zhang (China); Voting Members; Zohreh Ghaeni (Iran), Andersen Jury President; Elizabeth Page (Switzerland), Executive Direc- tor; Forest Zhang (China), Deputy Director of Administration; Ellis Vance (USA), Treasurer; Sylvia Vardell (USA), Catherine Kurkjian (USA), Bookbird Editors. 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: Leo and Diane Dillon (1992). AK by Peter Dickinson. New York: Delacorte Press. I said it in Hebrew – I said it in Dutch – I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you must speak! FIT THE FIRST: JAM AND JUDICIOUS ADVICE Editorial | ii FIT TH E SECOND: THOUGHTFUL AND GRAVE When children die in war; Death in war literature for children and youth Milena Šubrtová | 1 Bringing books and children together: Croatian war experiences Ivanka Stričević | 9 Peace and peacemakers in books for children Ira Saxena | 21 IRD: SUCH QUANTITIE HE TH S OF SA IT T The war inside books ND F Roberto Innocenti | 27 What do we tell the children? War in the work of Roberto Innocenti Lindsay Myers | 32 FOURTH: OF SHOES AND SHIP G WAX FIT THE S AND SEALIN Her ways with pictures and words: An interview with Marie-Louise Gay S. Rebecca Leigh | 41 Understanding the Other: Alterity in contemporary Greek fiction for young adults Vassiliki Lalagianni | 51 UNDRUM FIT THE FIFTH: CON S TO GUESS Postcards from Around the World | interleaved Books on Books | 59 Focus IBBY | 64 “The Dubai Sonnet” Ted van Lieshout | 74 The quoted stanza is from “The Hunting of the Snark” by Lewis Carroll. The titles of various Bookbird sections are taken from that same poem, from “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, also by Lewis Carroll, and from “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear. Editorial Dear Bookbird Readers, n this issue of Bookbird, we turn our attention to the difficult subject of war, particularly as to how it is depicted in books for I children and young adults. Sadly, many children around the world Bookbird editors continue to live amidst conflict and violence. The writers in this issue consider the many ways in which war affects children including how books for young people reflect war history, how childhood experiences with war shape future writers, and how literature can support children and families in surviving war and conflict. Feature articles Milena Šubrtová’s article When children die in war: Death in war SYLVIA VARDELL is a professor literature for children and youth gives us an historical perspective on at Texas Woman’s University (USA) where she teaches graduate courses the depiction of war in books for young people, from the portrayal of in children’s literature. She is the the heroic to the disillusioned character, including how writers handle author of CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN ACTION: A LIBRARIAN’S GUIDE and the the deaths of children. What do the voices of the characters tell us? PoetryForChildren blog. How do their voices inform the present? What can we learn that will be helpful to children whose lives are torn apart by war? This is the essential question that Ivanka Stričević addresses in Bringing books and children together: Croatian war experiences. We learn the valuable role libraries played during the difficult war years in Croatia and how libraries created a sense of normalcy for children, families, and communities living in the most difficult of circumstances. Stričević shares powerful lessons to learn about how libraries can help children and families maintain their CATHERINE KURKJIAN is a humanity in inhumane times. professor in the Department of Reading and Language Arts at Central Next, two children’s book authors offer their experiences growing Connecticut State University (USA) where up during wartime. Author Ira Saxena’s Peace and peacemakers in she teaches courses in Reading and Language Arts and Children’s Literature. books for children writes about her own experiences as the daughter of Her areas of specialization include a Gandhian freedom fighter growing up in India during that country’s children’s literature and the intersection of literacy and technology. struggle for freedom. She conveys the Gandhian view of peace that goes beyond the absence of violence and which must include the presence © 2009 by Bookbird, Inc. EDITORAL of justice. Saxena presents a discussion of books Netherlands with special attention given to eight in which peacemakers like Gandhi, Dr. Martin representative authors, to picture book illustration Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela sought in Korean children’s books, to a critical study of the justice through nonviolent means. work of acclaimed Swedish author Peter Pohl, to a Acclaimed artist and illustrator, Roberto retrospective view of Australian author and artist Innocenti, shares his thoughts about growing up as Graeme Base, to a scholarly look at the world of a child in war-torn Italy, as well as his insights about postmodernism in children’s picture books. how political ideologies are represented in books for Glenna Sloan once again brings us Postcards children. In his essay The war inside books we get a from Around the World with mini-reviews of behind-the-scenes view of how his books depicting children’s books. Each offers a special focus on war came to be published. Lindsay Myers’s What the issue of war, including interview-based works do we tell children? War in the work of Italian edited by Canadian author/interviewer Deborah illustrator, Roberto Innocenti offers a fascinating Ellis, and the team of Marc Aronson and Patty companion piece, brilliantly analyzing Innocenti’s Campbell, a nonfiction history of the Battle of illustrations depicting the experiences that children the Teutoburg Forest in Germany, real-life refugee have of war in Rose Blanche, Erika’s Story, and Leda experiences across Africa, war orphan stories from e il mago. When taken together, these three articles Vietnam and Afghanistan, the real and symbolic remind us that children should be afforded access power of a garden or art in times of war, and a war to history and, more importantly, that the child’s fable. place in history should be acknowledged. Liz Page helps us keep current with IBBY This issue also features two articles that expand happenings with the Focus IBBY column. Liz our understanding of the artistic process and the brings us news about the International Youth nature of multiculturalism in books for youth. Library’s 60th anniversary, about exciting plans S. Rebecca Leigh shares insights from award for our World Congress to be held in Santiago de winning Canadian author and illustrator, Marie- Compostela in September 2010, and about National Louise Gay, who creates picture books in two Book Fairs spanning the globe. Additionally, IBBY languages. Her ways with pictures and words: President Patsy Aldana provides an update on An interview with Marie-Louise Gay provides us IBBY’s important work and accomplishments half with an insider’s view on the work of this prolific way through her tenure as president.
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