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VOL. 51, NO.2 APRIL 2013 Feature Articles: Maternal Aggression as Women’s Empowerment in Childhood-49 Children and Their Books: !e 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 o"ce is supported by the Augustana Faculty at the University of Alberta, Camrose, Alberta, Canada. Editorial Review Board: Peter E. 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Editorial | iii “You brat”: Maternal Aggression as Women’s Empowerment in !ree Recent Picture Books Guri Fjeldberg | 1 Similarity or Di"erence?: !e Problem of Race in Australian Picture Books Jayashree Rajagopalan | 13 Ulitskaia’s Writing for Children: Epiphany and the Sense of Wonder in Childhood-49 Oksana Lushchevska | 22 Feature Articles China’s Patriotic Exposé: Ye Shengtao’s Fairytale, Daocao ren [Scarecrow] Lijun Bi | 32 Multicultural Literature and the Use of Literature in Multicultural Education in Finland Juli-Anna Aerila and Lydia Kokkola | 39 Preschoolers Recommending Books Raquel Cuperman | 51 “!e books we’ve had forever”: !e Parent-Observer Diary Virginia Lowe | 58 !e Vibrant Triangle: !e Relationship between the Picture Book, the Adult Reader, and the Child Listener Tamara Smith | 65 Children & Their Books Turkish Delight: Sweet or Sour? !e Double Face of the Turkish Children’s Book Market Tülin Kozikoğlu | 71 Letters Charlotte Steiner Zlata Philips | 76 IBBY.ORG 51.2 ! 2013 | i Algoritem arene: Priročnik za branje kakovostnih mladinskih knjig 2012 [!e arena algorithm: manual for reading quality youth literature 2012]. by Darja Lavrenčič Vrabec and Ida Mlakar Kaja Bucik | 79 Literatura. Duty. Čas [Literature. Children. Time]. By Uliana Hnidets Oksana Lushchevska | 81 Colonial India in Children’s Literature. By Supriya Goswami Claudia Sö#ner | 82 Expect the Unexpected. Essays über Tomi Ungerer zu seinem 80. Geburtstag [Expect the unexpected: essays about Tomi Ungerer on his eightieth birthday]. Edited by Daniel Keel Dr. Reinbert Tabbert | 83 Reviews of Secondary Literature Una historia del libro ilustrado para niños en Colombia [A history of illustrated books by children in Columbia]. Edited by María Fernanda Paz Castillo. Jochen Weber | 85 #e Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale retold by Lucine Kasbarian, illus, by Maria Zaikina Barbara Zimmer | 12 Es war einmal Indianerland [Once upon a time there was Indian’s land] by Nils Mohl Linda Dutsch | 57 When Did the Rolling Pumpkin Return Home? by Ali Asghar Seyed Abadi, illus. by Alireza Goldozian Bahar Eshraq | 64 La bambina che ascoltava gli alberi by Maria Loretta, illus. by Christina Pieropan Postcards Melissa Garavini | 70 Los monstrous grandes no lloran [Big monsters don’t cry] by Kalle Güettler, Rakel Heimisdal, and Áslaug Jónsdóttir Deena Hinshaw | 78 #e Year of the Dragon by Oliver Chin Helen Luu | 95 Poly-Esther and the Monster by Tiril Valeur Holter-Andersen Samantha Christensen | 97 Focus IBBY | 87 ii | BOOKBIRD IBBY.ORG Editorial Dear Bookbird Readers, write this editorial from the thick of an Albertan winter; we’ve been blessed with record amounts of snow for months now, and the bucolic little city in which I live looks like an especially Ipretty Christmas card. And though I’m preparing Bookbird’s Spring issue for 2013, it is Christmas season and the contents of this issue have me wishing I could make all of the wonderful books discussed in this issue accessible to my granddaughter, pictured above. As Bookbird Editor is usual for Bookbird. Scholars, teachers, librarians, parents, and others concerned with books for children from around the world successfully bring their discussions in English to Bookbird readers. However, we are nowhere near widely spread translation of these texts into other languages to make them accessible to the world’s children. I am reminded of two keynote addresses at the recent IBBY Congress in London (August 2012), in which Patsy Aldana made the compelling argument that we must give every child a voice by publishing in the dominant languages children’s books from all Roxanne Harde is an Associate Professor minority cultures, and Emer O’Sullivan emphasized the impor- of English and a McCalla University tance of translating the best of children’s literature from around the Professor at the University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty. She studies and world into as many languages as possible. teaches American literature and culture. !roughout the issue you will "nd postcards on appealing new She has recently published Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to children’s books written in Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, the Works of Bruce Springsteen, and and Persian, and you will read scholarly articles and columns that her essays have appeared in several journals, including International Research will make you hunger to read the texts they discuss, texts written in in Children’s Literature, The Lion and Estonian, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, the Unicorn, Christianity and Literature, Legacy, Jeunesse, Critique, Feminist Turkish, and Chinese. I am saddened that my granddaughter will Theology, and Mosaic, and several edited neither be entertained by these books nor taught by them. !e arti- collections, including Enterprising Youth cles in this issue delineate how texts for children re#ect but also and To See the Wizard. © 2013 BY BOOKBIRD, INC. EDITORIAL work to reshape the worldview of their readers. the child listener—what she calls the “Vibrant Guri Fjeldberg points out in her "ne study Triangle.” Penni Cotton provides the "nal Chil- that a number of international picture books dren & !eir Books column with “Picture Books rewrite the role of maternal aggression to free across Cultures: A Leap into the Unknown?” mothers, and perhaps their daughters too, from Cotton outlines strategies and techniques used unrealistic expectations and conformist social by organizations aimed at making international pressures. Oksana Luschevska considers how literature available to children worldwide. In the Liudmila Ulitskaia uses a child’s sense of wonder two Letters, Zlata Philips’s explores the in#uen- in her series of stories, Childhood-49, to depict tial yet mysterious career of European-American the complex life of Russian post-war society with author and illustrator Charlotte Steiner. Finally, all its bitterness and hardship. Lijun Bi examines Tülin Kozikoğlu laments the lack of Western the "rst major work of modern