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AUTHOR Scharioth, Barbara, Ed.; Weber, Jochen, Ed. TITLE Hello, Dear Enemy! Picture Books for Peace and Tolerance: An International Selection. INSTITUTION International Youth Library, Munich (Germany). PUB DATE 1998-03-00 NOTE 36p.; In cooperation with International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, the Bavarian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Arts, the City of Munich, and'the Association of the Friends of the International Youth Library. PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; *Childrens Literature; Elementary Education; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; *Peace; *Picture Books; *Reading Material Selection; Stranger Reactions; Violence; *War; World Problems IDENTIFIERS Peace Education; *Tolerance
ABSTRACT This catalog presents descriptions of over 41 children's picture books from 19 countries that formed an exhibition sent worldwide to promote and help maintain peace. The majority of the books do not deal directly with the horrors of war but rather deal with its preconditions: intolerance, xenophobia, prejudice against being different, misuse of power, oppression, and violence against people and property. Titles are arranged alphabetically by illustrator and the books are listed under their country of origin. (Contains author and illustrator name and subject indexes.) (RS)
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IBBY's mission is to promote international Peace and Tolerance" in the hope that it understanding through children's books. And travels widely and touches many children understanding, above all, means tolerance. and adults around the world. Tolerance for those strangers outside our borders, like Rat in Max Velthuijs' »Frog and I hope that the seed planted by Jella Lepman the stranger«, and tolerance for those we in 1946 may continue to yield a harvest live with every day, like the elephants in in a world that has never stopped needing David McKee's »Tusk Tusk«. And the beauty tolerance. of children's books is that these messages can be transmitted both in a historical context We at IBBY send our warm wishes to all such as Roberto Innocenti's »Rose Blanche«, those who cross the bridges of understanding or in the realm of deep rooted folk traditions built by outstanding books such as these. such as Eugene Trivizas' »The three little wolves and the big bad pig«. Carmen Diana Dearden It is with great pleasure that 18 BY supports President of IBBY - International Board the International Youth Library's splendid on Books for Young People travelling exhibition of Picture Books for March 1998
The exhibition opened at the International Youth Library in January 1998 and will first travel to the following sites in South Asia:
Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay Max Mueller Bhavan Calcutta Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi Goethe-Institut Colombo
2 4 Preface
»A peaceful future depends on our everyday selection contains wonderful picture books acts and gestures. Let us educate for tolerance showing quarrelsome ravens (cat. no. 34), in our schools and communities, in our homes intolerant young rats (cat. no. 24), aggressive and workplaces and, most of all, in our hearts dogs (cat. no. 25) and a jealous mouse that and minds.« starts a war with frogs (cat. no. 31). Federico Mayor, The first "peace classic", Munro Leaf's »The Director General of UNESCO story of Ferdinand« (cat. no. 18), appeared in 1936. This book is also connected to the »Why were human beings still not capable work of Jella Lepman. After years as an of carrying on their affairs of state intelli- émigré she returned to Germany gently? I. wondered. Here this beautiful immediately after the end of World War 11 planet called earth belonged to them, and as a re-education officer in the American what did they do? War! Again and again military administration. Here she held her children were in danger of being killed in first international exhibition of children's wars. Maybe it would be better to let the books and arranged for a special edition of animals of the world have a stab at 30,000 copies of »Ferdinand« to be printed governing, matching their instinct against on newsprint for the children of Berlin. human reason. When I reached this point Ferdinand was a spectacular success. His I went to Erich Kästner«. So wrote Jella creator should have won the Nobel Peace Lepman, founder of the International Youth Prize", she wrote. Jella Lepman enthusias- Library and inspiration behind the »The tically translated the book into German animals' conference«, in her memoirs herself. The peaceable young bull that »A bridge of children's books« (Frankfurt, refuses to fight was for her a symbol of a 1964, and Leicester, Chicago, 1969). Erich new way of thinking that she wanted to Kästner's unforgettable book (cat. no. 35) communicate to the children and parents with illustrations by Walter Trier was first of the post-war years. published in 1949. It has the animals Only a few of the books chosen here are champion the cause of peace for the sake concerned directly with the horrors of war. of the children. The majority of the books deal with its Jella Lepman's idea to choose animals as pre-conditions: intolerance, xenophobia, protagonists of a "peace mission", which is prejudice against being different, misuse difficult to put into words, is readily used to of power, oppression, and violence against this day. Many contemporary authors and people and property. The characters in the illustrators choose variations of the literary stories frequently find the solution to their animal fable since these parable-like stories conflict through reason and reflection. The are memorable and to the point. Our message in many of the books is that
3 tolerance is the pre-requisite for peaceful co- the so-called "picture-book age". Many of existence within the worldwide community the artists use the medium of the picture of people and races. This tolerance is closely book as a possibility to awaken feelings in tied to life in freedom, solidarity and justice. readers of all age groups through powerful According to the communication studies images and colourful pictures. They seek to expert, Wolf Dieter Otto, writing in an motivate the readers with words, colours and article for the »Saddeutsche Zeitung« (May, forms, to introduce them to a fundamental 31' 1997), this is not to be understood as a topic and to extend these ideas from the frame of mind but as social behaviour that is world of books into their everyday lives. not inborn". It must be painstakingly The UNESCO policy document states that a acquired, not only as individual responsi- Culture of Peace is not to be equated with bility, but also as collective patterns of abstract pacifism and passive tolerance. It behaviour under the influence of social originates in the commitment to the building relations". This idea implies active behaviour of a world that is acceptable to all". Jella and demands recognition of the equal rights Lepman would have certainly identified with of &hers. It is the pre-condition for a this idea when, in 1946, she began to enlist "Culture of Peace" that was described in support for tolerance and international a UNESCO policy document of 1996 (cited understanding through books. In this spirit in: UNESCO heute 3/1997, p. 37). we would like our exhibition to travel to as The visible manifestation of this programme many towns, cities and countries as possible. is the UNESCO Prize for Children's and The books will be sent worldwide in the Young People's Literature in the Service of hope that the exhibition will result in Tolerance. A jury chaired by Suzanne activities and projects for children that will Mubarak, the First Lady of Egypt, awarded promote and help to maintain peace. the prize for the first time in 1997 in Bologna. There is a pleasing correspondence between the endeavours for this internatio- Dr. Barbara Scharioth, March 1998 nal children's book prize and the goals of an exhibition arranged by the International Youth Library. The exhibition "Peace, Freedom, Tolerance. Books against War" opened in Munich in January 1994 and by the end of 1997 had been shown in a total of 24 cities. The positive response to this selection of about 200 books in 23 lan- guages has encouraged us to start a new exhibition project, a selection of 41 picture books from 19 countries. Only a few of these books are aimed at small children in 6
4 Japan © International Youth Library 1998
On March, 1" 1954, while on local community action group a tuna fishing trip, the Japanese and, since 1976, the Lucky fishing boat Lucky Dragon 5" Dragon" has served as a got caught in the deadly museum and as a reminder of shower of ash from a hydrogen the consequences of war and bomb test on Bikini Atoll. The of the use of nuclear weapons. crew was subjected to radiation Miyoshi Akasaka, winner of fallout and the first sailor died renowned national and interna- after a few months. Other signs tional prizes, clearly tells the of radiation were detected in history of the boat from its the islanders themselves, in the beginning up to today. His tons of tuna fish unloaded in powerful, coloured woodcut- Japanese harbours and even in 1 like illustrations work very the rainwater. The boat avoided Akasaka, Miyoshi (illus./text) convincingly. (9+) being broken up because Wasurenaide. Daigo scientists used it to research fukuryUmaru monogatari [Don't forget me! The story of the effects of radiation. the Lucky Dragon 5] After ten years as a training ship Tokyo: Kin no hoshisha, 1989. for a fisheries college, it even- l4Oppl ISBN 4-323-00297-1 tually came to rest on a refuse Bikini atoll - Nuclear test island near Tokyo. It was Hydrogen bomb - Radiation rescued from oblivion by a injuriesFishing boat Museum
USA
Child Hiroshima World War streets once more. The parents 11 <1939-1945> Dropping of decide to exhume the two the atom bomb children to give them a tradi- tional Japanese funeral and This book serves to remind the tricycle comes to light us of the atomic bomb again. catastrophe in Hiroshima in Today, it can be seen in the 1945. Little Shin longs for a Peace Museum in Hiroshima, tricycle and, although such a where it reminds visitors of a dream during wartime appears peaceful world in which unattainable, he receives one children can play happily from his uncle for his fourth and laugh. 2 birthday. He rides happily The simple words and pictures Ando, Noriyuki (illus.) round the garden with his painted with special light Kodama, Tatsuharu (text) playmate just as the atom effects convey the message of Hokumen-Jones, Kazuko (trans.) bomb explodes. His parents this authentic story in a plausi- Shin's tricycle bury him and the neighbour's ble way. (7+) New York: Walker, 1995. I34ppl ISBN 0-8027-8375-9 daughter in the grounds of (Japanese original title: Shinchan no their house. sanrinsha. Tokyo: Doshin-sha, Many years later Hiroshima is 1992. Illus. by Makoto Oho) rebuilt and life pulsates on the
5 Sweden © International Youth Library 1998
Tolerance and peaceableness a small toilet. There it meets a Mann Gntv I famArnold are propagated in the story in girl who feels desolate. Through a rather hidden way by this the heart she becomes an HJARTAT SON1 INGEN VILLE HA famous author. A courageous, open, optimistic person who warm and loving heart is has a heart for others. abandoned and would like to The strongly contoured pictures be useful to someone. It takes by the Swiss illustrator, Hans the form of a bird, but wher- Arnold, who lives in Sweden, ever it looks people only have show through their richly a need for reason. Reason rules contrasted colouring the style the world. Neither monarchs in elements of modern graphic their ruling, nor generals at war, design and comics. This pre- nor religious leaders dare to vents the story from becoming 3 Arnold, Hans (illus.) have a heart. Even the people sentimentalized. (8+) Gripe, Maria (text) living in the town and in the Hjartat som ingen ville ha country think only of them- IThe heart that nobody wanted selves and their amusement to have] and have no use for empathy Stockholm: Bonnier, 1989. that would distract them from l4Opp] their materialistic longings. ISBN 91-48-51721-6 Eventually the heart lands, Peaceableness-Tolerance-Empathy much abused, on the door of
USA
Mother cat and mother mouse they successfully campaign for each tell their children about a new way for the cat and life and, above all, the dangers mouse families to live together. from which they have to pro- From this time on peace tect themselves. Not all of the prevails between them. children are listening closely. With their warm colours and Two of the little ones have energy, the generous, large something else in mind: they format pictures by the Polish want to learn about life for artist Tomek Bogacki give the themselves. animals and their human As a result they encounter observers plenty of room for each other and are amazed by positive thinking. (6+) each other's differentness. They try to frighten each other but 4 Bogacki, Tomek (illus./text) neither of them is really afraid. Cat and mouse They play together and have New York: Farrar, Straus & lots of fun. The suspicions and Giroux, 1996. (28ppl the prejudices of their parents (Frances Foster Books) are forgotten because each ISBN 0-374-31225-7 accepts the other for what they Translations: Dutch, German are. When they get back home Child PrejudicePlayPeace 6 8 Germany © International Youth Library 1998
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5 Boratyriski, Antoni (illus.) Wendt, Irmela (text) Der Krieg und sein Bruder (The end of War) Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1991. I32ppl ISBN 3-491-79056-5 Translations: Dutch, English War Peace - Cain and Abel
With this picture book about' about Cain, who struck Abel The severe, earthy pictures of war as mankind's compan- and, in the form of War, the Polish artist match the ion", one does not know proved to be the undoing of mysterious ballad. They invite which way to turn at first. Is it man over the centuries. When one to thoughtful reflection the puzzling pictures that lead he grows old, he meets a and give the association of the one to leaf through the book? stranger who leads him to Biblical legend of senseless A giant with pointed helm, Abel. Now he remembered fratricide with the no less staring eyes set in a coarse who he was. He dropped to senseless human condition a face, club in his huge fist and his knees and called from the convincing form. War receives shiny, metallic armour appears depths of his soul»I am a human face and is redeemed. time and again as a frightening Cain! I killed my brother Boratyriski has made this hard- shadow. Then a person emer- Abel!« And War was no to-imagine fantasy so convinc- ges, small and rigid, who more." Meanwhile, mankind ing that we have chosen one terrifies the giant. Another misses War and the mighty of his pictures for the cover picture shows a huge coffin collect together everything that illustration of this catalogue. full of war machines and War has dropped: weapons (8+) finally a procession above and other instruments of war. which the dove of peace lies They think that War is dead. like a benevolent veil. But the funeral procession, led Back to the text: Irmela Wendt by the stubborn hard-liners, has written a kind of ballad develops into a jolly parade.
9 7 France C International Youth Library 1998
In the form of a classic animal other's peculiarities. The fable fable this picture book gives develops through the pictorial LA BROUILLE a pointed lesson in tolerance. story that is straight forward, Nrole tin lobin The stage is a field with two clear and easy to read and burrows for the rabbits, Master shows the illustrator's delight Brown and Master Grey, who in the humorous pantomime. are good neighbours until their The very human charm of mutual annoyance over each the squabblers is depicted in other's habits and quirks leads comical contrast to the bitter- 6 to a rift. Instead of being tol- ness of their quarrel. The moral Boujon, Claude (illus./text) erant, they start to exchange appears directly in the La brouille insulting words and gestures, pictures: that the heroes look [The quarrel] which leads to a punch-up like different coloured twins Paris: tcole des Loisirs, that degenerates into a battle. reduces their quarrel to the 1989.136pp1 Only when a hungry fox turns absurd. (5+) ISBN 2-211-01515-8 up, does their survival instinct Translations: German, release them from their Japanese NeighboursIntolerance blinding rage. Only through Argument - Violence joint action can they save Reconciliation themselves. Reconciled again, they are friends for evermore and begin to appreciate each
Denmark
A pair of breeding ducks angri- ducks become more and more ly defends their little reed prejudiced against the black island against all the other coots, who seem to belong to birds. They chase away two a strange race that they cannot coots that also want to nest accept as equals. In turn, the there. When one of the duck- coots chase the ducks and lings gets lost it is found by the their young away when they coots and brought back to the come too close to the coots' mother duck (the drake had nest. The families come left after an argument - a mar- together in the end, mostly ginal comment of modern through the children, who do 7 family sociology). This per- not allow the prejudices of Brogger, Lilian (illus.) suades her that living to- their parents to interfere with Krog, Kirsten Mejlhede (text) gether is better than living their games. (6+) vi vxre her? in isolation. [Can we stay here?] Kobenhavn: Gyldendal, 1989. The Eimple, competent illus- [34ppl trations limit themselves to ISBN 87-00-41082-9 depicting individual scenes Racial prejudice -Tolerance and thus allow the compara- tively extensive text to stand out. It tells in detail how the
8 1 0 Spain (Catalan) ©International Youth Library 1998
Peace between the tiny rk-#.-ardeme. Optimistically, the story pro- kingdoms, Quarter-to-Three" motes the powers of reason and Just-before-Three", is and love, which are stronger threatened when a power- than enmity and pride. Despite hungry politician stirs up the happy ending it is clear trouble between the neigh- how easily people are led bours. They are brought to the astray and how threatened brink of a violent solution to peace is, for which there is their disagreement. The two no guarantee. strongest residents, Brando the The humorous, comic-like Baker and Nina the Shepherd- illustrations go very well with ess, are selected to meet and 8 the naive charm of the story. fight on a bridge hastily Capdevila, Roser (illus.) The feelings of the people, thrown across the river that Sennell, Joles (text) who obviously have self- forms the border between the La rosa de sant Jordi doubts and take joy in the two kingdoms. Butas the IThe rose of Saint George] happy turnabout at the end, Barcelona: Crifilla, 1988. 65pp two have a go at each other are easy to retognize in the (El vaixell de vapor; Serie hlanca; 47) they fall in love and the bridge simple watercoloured line ISBN 84-7629-223-6 becomes a bond of peace that, Translations: French, Galician, drawings. (6+) with the marriage of Queen Spanish Elisenda and King Frederic, Power Pride -ConflictBridge - unites the two kingdoms. Peace
Senegal / France
Technique, 1984. 19pp village life has been retained. (Collection jeunesse) Here culture is maintained by ISBN 2-7236-0943-X the spoken word. The king Africa -TraditionCivilization wisely rules his people, who A cultural crisis in a civili- have black skin like their zation is told here in the form forefathers. The differences of a legend. Kingdoms have awake covetousness in both been established on opposite kingdoms. But the recollection banks of the river by two of their common origin pre- groups of people who set out vents war and a peaceful from their common ancestral exchange begins. :land in different directions. The illustrations show what 9 One kingdom now shows all is for Western eyes an exotic Diarra / Fassara (illtis.) the achievements of a modern African ambiance, but at the Ndiaye, Theodore Ndock (text) civilization. The source of this same time their curved Les deux royaumes de la riviere Querifa modernity is the ability to horizons, which hint at the IThe two kingdoms of the write. Great cities have globe, move the events into Querifa River] replaced villages and the a universal context. (9+) Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions formerly black people have Africaines / Paris: Agence de become white. In the other Cooperation Culturelle et kingdom, the traditional
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In order to be able to decorate laughable ritual whose appar- !IQUIERO UNA MEDALLA! the last free space on his uni- ently logical code is here peace- form with a medal, the Great fully deciphered and thus General" declares war on the reduced to absurdity. Sabre- dear" General of Over-There- rattling militarism is exposed Land". When his counterpart as a bogeyman through the gives his assent", they can subversive naivety of the begin. But the battle takes an musicians. The satirical text is unexpected turn when the illustrated with grotesquely members of the music corps, exaggerated full-page colour outraged by the cacophony pictures. The General is a of war, answer the enemies' puffed up dwarf; the soldiers bombardment with their musi- wear saucepans for helmets cal instruments. As nobody 10 and carry ridiculous weapons. can withstand the sound of Domenech, LIdisot (illus./text) (9+) music, everything ends in a ;Quiero una medalla! (Premio Apel.les Mestres 1987) [I want a medalll jolly party and oaths of eternal Barcelona: Destino, 1988. friendship. In order to win the [36pp1 medal he wants, the furious, (Apeles Mestres) but powerless General looks ISBN 84-233-1629-7 for a new job as conductor. Translations: Catalan War is caricaturized as a Militarism -Vanity - Glory
France
Paul Eluard (1895-1952) was written on everything nothing a member of the French can be oppressed. The global Resistance during the German view of the poet excludes no occupation of France in World dimension and encompasses War II. His militant poetry was things in light and shadow. The distributed on leaflets to illustrator lets his imagination millions of French people. The run wild and interprets the hymn oLiberterr spread by verses with collages that at first word of mouth. Eluard had to glance seem austere. But upon go underground. closer observation a richness This love poem to freedom of innuendo unfolds that is timeless and universal. It admits an array of practically conjures up in a long litany- inexhaustible meanings and 12 like enumeration the phenom- brings Eluard's lyrical poetry Goiran, Claude (illus.) ena of the world that Man to life. (15+) Eluard, Paul (text) absorbs, alert and sensitive Liberte from childhood onwards. On [Freedom) Paris: Pere Castor all of these phenomena he Flammarion, 1997. 148ppl writes the word freedom" and ISBN 2-08-160409-4 thereby makes them its expo- Freedom nents. When freedom" is 12 10 France © International Youth Library 1998
11 Elzbieta (illus./text) Flon-Flon & Musette
barbed wire fences and is at Two young rabbits play ,5 - peacefully together and like last reunited with Musette. 'FloriLFlon each other so much that they The Polish-born artist working Mti`§'ertt'e, ' want to get married later on. with painted paper collage Suddenly and for the children avoids pictures that are too incomprehensibly, war comes brutal. Only once is a gloomy to the land. Flon-Flon and red-bathed battle scene with Musette find themselves in fallen rabbits to be seen, opposing camps and can no otherwise the war is merely longer meet. On his return hinted at through grey colours, PASTEL from the war Flon-Flon's stark, ruinous landscapes and wounded father is unable to windows covered with barbed explain to his son why wars wire. The conflict between the start, but his mother assures two parties is already hinted landscape where the snow Flon-Flon that children are not at in the introductory picture covers all differences. (5+) to blame. As children are with children playing in a (Prix de Critique 1994) capable of overcoming their flowery meadow the paper parents' concept of the enemy, that represents the meadow is the young rabbit sets out to symbolically ripped to form a find his long-lost playmate; he path. In the final picture the squeezes through a hole in the children are united in a winter
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UNICEF has collected letters, Ich triume vom Frieden torment the children. The pictures and poems in schools horror of war plagues them and refugee camps within the as well as the fear of experi- framework of a relief pro- encing certain things (for a gramme for children who are second time). The last chapter victims of the civil war in shows their dreams and hopes former Yugoslavia. The result- for a healed and better world. ant collection is very moving Ten-year-old Roberto writes: and at the same time makes If I were president, all the one angry at the extent of the 13 tanks would be playgrounds destruction and sorrow. The Ich träume vom Frieden. for the children. All the children, the weakest in any Bilder vom Krieg von Kindern aus children of the world would war, describe and paint how dem ehemaligen lugoslawien sleep in peace undisturbed by the towns and villages were (I dream of peace. Images of war alarms and shooting". (10+) destroyed, people thrown out by children of former Yugoslavia) of their houses, abused or München: Bertelsmann, 1994. 79pp ISBN 3-570-12079-1 killed and how they are per- (Original U.S. ed.: New York: sonally affected: the loss of HarperCollins, 1994) loved ones, the loss of their Translations: Danish, Dutch, home, protection, trust. It is French, German, Japanese, shocking to see what Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish nightmares and anxieties Child YugoslaviaCivil war
Australia
PEACET Peace means different things, inner peace of the individual to different people, in different also belongs within the broad Klitherinc NAL s IltutttratLd by Robert 1110111 places, at different times in spectrum of the author's their lives." This is how the concept. fr author starts her book. This Thus, this book offers, within concept is not just defined as a few pages, a broadly diversi- the simple absence of war or fied catalogue of themes for physical violence but made children to discuss and think understandable through about. examples from everyday life. Robert Ingpen's memorable, Peace is, amongst other things, sensitive gouache paintings go when one has the material well with the message of the 14 things and the help that one text, be it friendship, security, lngpen, Robert (illus.) needs. The good things in life readiness to negotiate, war- Scholes, Katherine (text) and the fulfillment of spiritual damage or peace demonstra- Peacetimes needs belong to these. Every tions. (8+) Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1989. [40ppl day peace can be promoted or ISBN 0-85572-188-X destroyed through human Peace Peaceableness - Human behaviour: How can one help RightsPeace education Peace to mediate conflicts? How can movement -Tolerance people deal with them? The
12 14 Switzerland © international Youth Library 1998
Child World War 11 <1939- shoot Rose by mistake outside 1945>Persecution of the Jews the deserted camp. Concentration camp The very realistic style of the 1 renowned Italian illustrator
; Rose Blanche (the name is a makes the pictures, rendered reminder of the "Weisse Rose" in greys and dirty browns of resistance movement in war and hopelessness, an
1 ,,:., Germany), lives in a small oppressive experience. The
A German town during the war. only glimmer of hope is the t - Soldiers march through the heroine with her colourful streets with lorries and tanks. clothes. Full of suspense one Rose witnesses the capture follows her and is shaken by 15 of a boy, follows the car he her death. The peaceful closing Innocenti, Roberto (illus. and idea) is taken in and discovers a picture in which a spring Gallaz, Christophe (text) concentration camp on the landscape grows over the Rose Blanche outskirts of the town. Moved remains of the concentration
Brazil
[First ed. Rio de Janeiro: ally the dangers of the arms Dois idiotas Nova Fronteira, 19831 race. The proliferation of weap- sentados cada qual Translations: Catalan, Spanish ons, inability to compromise no seu barril... Military balance
772- his hand. Although both fully The grotesquely exaggerated recognize the explosiveness of pictures in black, white and red the situation, they debate show the two protagonists as 16 without result as to who should childish comical figures, deaf to Jaguar (illus.) put his candle out first. The all reason. The colour red signals Rocha, Ruth (text) battle lines harden as more danger, aggression and destruc- Dols idiotas sentados cada cual no seu barril gunpowder is stacked against tion. The last page is completely [Two idiots, each sitting on his the barrels. Suddenly, one black showing all that remains: barrel ...1 candle falls to the ground and nothingonly the night, black Sao Paulo: Atica, 1996. the two idiots" are blown up as pitch. (8+) [24ppl (Procurando firme) with a huge bang. ISBN 85-08-06149-8 The story caricaturizes pictori- 15 13 The Netherlands © International Youth Library 1998
Text in Dutch, Turkish and Arabic land. The king could not ward ISBN 90-70545-20-9 off the colours and left his Dictatorship - Oppression kingdom together with his 1' OE KOMNG ResistanceFreedom DIE ALLEEN MAAR soldiers. From this day on the VAN MARS MELD people were free. A long time ago, there was In this picture book the once a king who loved violet oppression of a people by a most of all and therefore dictator is explicitly portrayed. demanded that everything The illustrations lend the fabu- in his kingdom be violet- lous story an extra dimension. coloured. Everybody who During the course of the story possessed something in gloom gives way to colourful- 17 another colour was severely ness, which symbolizes the Kaya, Ismail (illus./text) punished. The children went victory of the people. This Divendal, Veronica (Dutch trans.) to violet schools, wore violet trilingual book edited and Ermers, Robert (Arabic trans.) clothes and painted the most illustrated by a Turkish artist De koning die alleen maar beautiful violet pictures. But can promote the development van paars hield = Sadece mor rengi seven kral the people wanted the colours of a peaceful intercultural [The king who wanted only back and so resistance against community. (4+) the colour violet] the king developed clandes- 's-Hertogenbosch: tinely. A storm brought plants Aldus Uitg., 1991. [32pp] of every different colour to the
USA
This animal fable deals with stand the other's point of view a quarrel and the return to and to search for a solution a peaceful co-existence that together. is made possible through The artist, Leo Lionni, was willingness to compromise. It born in Amsterdam, grew up is shown how egoism harms in Italy and now lives in the others as well as oneself. USA. He presents the events A farmer does not tolerate any of the story in a direct manner birds on his fields while the with colourful, simple paper crows that have fed there for collages. The brief text and a long time attempt to chase concise pictures harmonize away the new scarecrow. This perfectly to elucidate the 19 in turn so shocks the farmer conflict and its resolution. (4+) Lionni, Leo (illus./text) that he neglects his fields out Six crows. A fable of fear of attack. As the fields New York: Knopf, 1988. return to the wild and serve [32ppl (A Borzoi book) ISBN 0-394-89572-X nobody anymore, White Owl Translations: Dutch, French, sets out to bring peace. German, Japanese Cleverly, she persuades both NeighboursIntolerance sides of the necessity to talk to ViolencePeace mediation each other in order to under-
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18 Lawson, Robert (illus.) Leaf, Munro (text) The story of Ferdinand New York: Scholastic, 1962 (First ed. 1936). 164pp1 no ISBN Translations: Danish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Spanish/ English Bullfight - Peaceableness By MUNRO LEAFDrawings by ROBERT LAWSON Non-aggression
Ferdinand, a young Spanish Nothing can persuade Ferdi- would not hurt a fly, awakens bull, is the peaceful and nand to behave like a real" unbounded sympathy for this undemanding hero of this bull. unheroic hero. The story of world classic that was made The bullfight stands as a Ferdinand has been accepted, into a film in 1938 by Walt metaphor for a war-like, since its appearance in 1936 Disney. Ferdinand loves life deadly ritual between two (the year that the Spanish Civil and the flowers in the mead- adversaries. The brutality and War broke out), as the first ows much more than the senselessness of the spectacle anti-war book in modern rough and tumble with the are in stark contrast to the children's literature. Although, other bulls whom he shares non-violent and happy Ferdi- or perhaps because the book is the meadow with. nand who takes the liberty to at first glance apolitical, it has Nevertheless, one day he is decide against violence and frequently been accused of' chosen for a big bullfight in not to fight. being subversive". (8+) Madrid. He was particularly The masterful black-and-white chosen because he was stung ink-pen drawings of Robert by a bumble-bee whilst sitting Lawson, which are humorous on a hummock and angrily and lightly caricaturing, charged around. But in the supplement the simple story. arena, this supposedly In particular, the portrayal of dangerous animal only pays the peaceful bull, with his attention to the scent of the graceful posture and his flowers in the ladies' hair. expression that signal he 17 15 Japan © International Youth Library 1998
GirlHiroshimaWorld War II band died in the explosion <1939-1945> Dropping of the and whose daughter has atom bomb - Radiation injuries remained physically and mentally a seven-year-old There were 460,000 people child since that time. The exposed to radiation when the portrayal of the victims in atomic bomb exploded over flames and destruction is Hiroshima on August, 6'h deeply shocking, but also 1945. A third of them died breathtakingly beautiful within the first three months. because the dignity of man The survivors and the follow- is so powerfully expressed. ing generations still suffer from Furthermore the words of the 20 the after-effects and psycho- mother"the atom bomb Maruki, Toshi (illus./text) logical trauma. would not have fallen if man Hiroshima no pika The prize-winning artist Toshi had not dropped it"warn (Hiroshima no pika) Maruki and her husband are against inhumanity and the Tokyo: Komine shoten, well known for their cam- arrogance of mankind. (7+) 1983 ('1980).148pp1 paigns against war, nuclear (3rd Nippon Prize for Picture ISBN 4-338-02201-9 Translations: Chinese, Danish, weapons and environmental Books [Grand Prix) 1980; Dutch, English, French, damage. She depicts the per- Mildred Batchelder Award German, Italian, Norwegian, sonal experience of a mother 1983) Spanish, Welsh from Hiroshima whose hus-
Great Britain
War Racism
'---.. appear as alien elements. Only , This picture book tells how they take their differences, groundless hatred between which undoubtedly exist but 4 black and white elephants are artificial and irrelevant, as leads to a deadly war. Only an excuse for violence. Even the elephants that did not -.,,,, ,b'sr, a few peace-loving elephants survive, withdrawn into the participate in the war cannot depths of the jungle from prevent their descendants from which grey elephants emerge developing new, equally ab- 21 generations later. They are the surd prejudices. Despite its Mac Kee, David (illus./text) (colourful) evidence of peace sceptical ending the story TuskTusk between black and white. pleads, with its onomatopoeic London: Andersen Press, However, the closing sentence title anfl the dedicatio- !;re 1978. 128pp1 "Vive la difference", that living ISBN 0-905478-27-4 makes one wonder how long Translations: Dutch, French, this peace will last: the creatures be judged neither by German, Italian, Spanish, elephants eye each other the colour of their skin nor Swedish suspiciously because some by the size of their ears. (5+) have small ears and others 16 18 Great Britain 0 International Youth Library 1998
Two stubborn and rather dense the words, especially when monsters live on opposite there is no readiness to look sides of a mountain. They beyond the end of one's nose. cannot see each other, only The simple, sparsely told story hear one another. At nightfall is accompanied by equally one monster asserts that the unpretentious illustrations day is going while the other using only the primary firmly maintains that the night colours. The drawings depict is coming. Narrowmindedly only the absolute necessary - and with know-all attitudes the two protagonists and the they insist on their points of mountainand this way show view using coarse words. The 22 unmistakably the core of the quarreling becomes worse and MacKee, David (illus./text) story. (3+) develops into stone throwing Two monsters until the mountain, which is London: Andersen Press; the cause of their different Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1985. [28ppi ISBN 0-86264-122-5 perspectives, collapses with a Translations: Danish, Dutch, roar. Now each must accept French, German, Spanish, that the other is also right. Swedish Very clearly this story shows Neighbours - Quarrel the danger of a limited Dogmatism Violence horizon, in the truest sense of Reconciliation
Great Britain
Neighbours - Strangeness the full spectrum of being Differentness - Xenophobia - different". It becomes very A, ca.rI. \sloth,. AngstIntolerance obvious how relative the label flAVEY011SlIS!;' of normality" is. The Amin EST In a long street, door to door, humorous pictures boldly NAJD 1Nh ITEITDOolt " there live monsters, vampires show the widespread fearful kitTO US? and other bizarre creatures aversion to the unknown and that we know from books, film make it clear that every person and TV. A rumour runs like can be a foreigner and that wildfire through the commu- tolerance is the pre-requisite nity spreading fear and horror: for an unprejudiced strangers that are really differ- co-existence. (6+) 23 ent" have moved in. At the end MacNaughton, Colin (illus./text) the surprised reader sees that Have you seen who's just these supposedly unnatural moved in next door to us? bizarre neighbours are just a London: Walker, 1991. 132pp1 perfectly normal family with ISBN 0-7445-1949-7 mother, father and children. Translations: Danish, French, German The double page watercolours show this topsyturvy world in plentiful detail that presents 1 9 17 France © International Youth Library 1998
Foreign child Immigrant - A bridge is built only when a Exclusion - Racism - Prejudice common interest is discov- Tolerance ered, in this case the colourful marbles that tumble out of his The experiences of a young rat satchel. as he starts at a new school The illustrator attempts to get are used to reflect upon the away from the naturalistic difficulties of tolerance and triviality that is usual in such integration. The children do "problem books" by depicting not behave aggressively the rats in a deliberately angu- towards their new classmate lar way and in loud colour. with the Arabic name, but he Through the choice of animals 24 is treated with a certain lack of as protagonists he cleverly Maubille, Jean (illus./text) understanding because of his avoids having to show differ- Rachid idiosyncrasies his broken ences in character and out-
France
The protagonists, two dogs, on television and where are typical city children. They innocent bystanders are also live shut in a playroom. When hit. Zeuzeu convinces Teuteu they get bored they watch with his argument and this television. They have no leads the two of them even experiences of their own. So one step further. They throw the black dog, Teuteu, decides their toys of war in the to throw everything he can rubbish bin. from the balcony onto the The picture book appeals to a street below. What fun when child's taste for the loud and something lands on the head fantastic with strong colours of a passerby! Teuteu feels and grotesquely exaggerated splendid and powerful when scenes. The educational he does this. Zeuzeu, the 25 intention to free children's Mets, Alan (illus./text) peace-loving white dog, games from destructive aggres- Teuteu et Zeuzeu opposes this aggressk;e game, sion, is clothed in brightly
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A happy frog sits on a stone remains is black and burnt. In 31 with a white flower in his the end, the mouse with the Popov, Nikolaj (illus.) hands. A mouse comes out of withered flower and the frog Warum? the ground with her sunshade with the tattered sunshade in (Why?) and is equally happyuntil their hands mourn for the Gossau (et al.): Neugebauer, 1995. l4OppI she notices the frog with the happy lives that they have lost. ISBN 3-85195-539-0 flower. She wants to have it The large format double page Translations: Catalan, Danish, and attacks the surprised frog. colour illustrations by the Dutch, English, French, Spanish She snatches the flower from Russian picture book artist, Envy - Hostility War the frog and occupies the nice Nikolaj Popov, work well Destruction stone. Then the frog's people without any text. They are come and chase the mouse impressive and psycho- away. The frogs use her sun- logically detailed as well as shade as a flower basket. Then ironic and laced with sadness. the mouse fetches her cannon. From an apparently harmless War begins. Ever heavier, ever beginning through to the final more ingenious, ever more chaos of destruction they destructive weapons are make the beholder a witness introduced. The frogs and the to existential stupidity. (6+) mice shoot their little green world to pieces. All that 21 19 C6te d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) © International Youth Library 1998
Skin colour -Variety - Exclusion - There are many nuances. And Racism Tolerance Acceptance why is their dog spotted and his white? Why is the bird A boy is born in a village in coloured? They have no * the heart of Africa. Because he answers but they would is blue from head to toe his like to try the chocolates! parents raise him in shame They acquire a taste for his and obscurity. But being bright company and happily enrich and curious he is able to run their games through his "eV away. There is great colourful imagination. Just as astonishment on both sides the optimistic story entices the when he encounters the other reader to enjoy the colourful children from the village. He differences of life, so the 26 answers their ridicule of his illustrations revel in brilliant Mobio, Claire (illus.) strange appearance with a colours, providing a cheerful KeIta, Fatou (text) battery of keen questions folksy background. (6+) Le petit garcon bleu about the significance of (Little Blue Boy) colour. The children seem Abidjan: Nouvelles Ed. Ivoiriennes, 1997. 23pp to him like the chocolates that no ISBN an uncle from far away has (Engl. parallel ed. by sent him. They are not at all same publisher) uniformly chocolate brown.
Japan
1945> Dropping of the atom pictures, tables and graphics bomb Radiation injuries and is easily understandable. Atomic weapons Peace Along with the very clear text, movement the illustrator reproduces life in the old castle town of Hiro- Whoever comes across this shima, before, during and after book cannot fail to be the dropping of the bomb, in impressed by the way in which carefully researched, detailed, picture and text work together authentic full-page pictures. and hence wish to learn more Through all the pictures there 27 about this event. The text floats the soul of an atom- Nishimura, Shigeo (illus.) delivers information about bomb victim that leads the Nasu, Masamoto (text) World War II, the atom bomb, reader to the sites of this Ede yomu Hiroshima no radiation damage, worldwide ordeal in the city of gembaku proliferation of nuclear Hiroshima. (9+) [Hiroshima. A tragedy never weapons since Hiroshima, Sankei Award for Chil- to be repeated] current use of atomic power as dren's Books & Publications Tokyo: Fukuinkan shoten, 1996) 199.5. 84pp well as antinuclear and peace ISBN 4-8340-1265-4 movements. The combined Translations: English complexity of the themes is Hiroshima World War II <1939- thoroughly developed with 20 22 Cameroon C) International Youth Library 1998
The story is unusual but not Vos,n1 The villagers can only hope implausible. A tank, symbol L e Afieux char that it will never again be used of death and destruction, is in war. The naive illustrations employed for the rebuilding of , in light-hued colours and a war-torn African village. It accurate in technical detail, pulls the plough, tows a trailer maintain a balance between with fruit from the fields and reality and Utopia. They drives the irrigation pump. Its lend the people an aura of beneficial effects unfold from lightheartedness that lessens page to page in the pictures. their vulnerability in the face The soil, tormented by mines of the monstrous machine and and bombs, becomes once strengthens the pacifist again a flowering field. The message. (6+) transformation of the death 28 machine into an instrument of Nomo, Vincent (illus./text) Le vieux char peace is made obvious in a IThe old tank] humorous way when the gun Yaoundé: Ed. AKOMA MBA, barrel is used as a washing- 1996. 24pp line for coloured cloths. no ISBN However, the tank remains a AfricaVillage - War - tank and in the end is taken Destruction - Reconstruction away by the departing soldiers. Tank
USA
Et ;.ofTuroi...<,Hrinn,ON Translations: Danish, Dutch, He is appeased by the inviting The Finnish, French, German, scent of the new house built Three Little Wolves and the Japanese, Spanish, Swedish completely from flowers. Big Bad Pig ViolencePeaceableness The message is clear: a real HospitalityReconciliation t-4 enduring peace cannot be r secured through militant This original re-working of the defence strategies. The English English fairy tale of the three illustrator perfectly captures little pigs departs from the the meaning of the story in her older version where counter- pictures. The realistically violence helps to gain victory drawn animals walk on hind over evil. Here the pig is the legs and have very human 29 villain who destroys the facial expressions. The idyllic Oxenbury, Helen (illus.) houses of the peaceful wolves closing picture hints at a Trivizas, Eugene (text) again and again for no reason peaceful shared future. (4+) The three little wolves and at all. Each time the wolves the big bad pig build a stronger, apparently New York: McElderry let al.l, impregnable fortress, it awakes 1993. [32ppl ISBN 0-689-50569-8 an evermore brutal, destructive (Engl. parallel ed. London: potential in the pig. In the end Heinemann, 1993) the pig is by chance disarmed. 23 21 France © International Youth Library 1998
A flock of ravens has been red and yellow material are 34 peacefully living in an old tree left hanging in the tree as a Stibane (illus./text) for generations. One day one reminder and an obligation. L'arbre aux corbeaux of them discovers some red The plot is outlined in brief [The tree of ravens] Paris: Ecole des Loisirs, 1995. shreds of cloth, in which he texts which leave the pictures [36pp] (Pastel) dresses himself as king. A little to tell the message of story. ISBN 2-211-02965-5 later, another raven finds a The aggressiveness of the ex- Power struggle - Envy - yellow rag that also turns him plosive-like escalation of the Ambition - Fratricidal war - into a king. This means war! expressive colours and forms Memorial The rival kings and their used in the illustrations clearly followers plunge into a frat- shows the destructive power of ricidal battle. Eventually one fratricidal war. (5+) party sets fire to the tree in order to wipe out their oppo- nents. As their previously communal dwelling burns like a torch the ravens realize what they are destroying. The combatants put out the fire with their combined strength. Peace returns. The shreds of 2 4 22 Venezuela @ International Youth Library 1998
Peace is broken in a small defended because, as manifes- village. The father of the tations of tolerance and mutu- storyteller favours a poet as al respect, they make peaceful candidate for the presidential co-existence possible and hin- elections, whereas the priest der violence. The youth's prefers a general and polemi- experiences are shown in the cizes against the father from finely sketched drawings with the pulpit and in the church underlying colours. He magazine, which has a mono- perceives the priest as a poly in the village. In order to fanatical preacher in the style prevent further attacks against of a political caricature. When his father, the narrator collects frightened, he imagines 30 all the letter "A"s from the himself chased by apocalyptic Peli (illus.) printers. But his father forces riders. The beauty, power and Canal Ramirez, Gonzalo (text) him to return them to the danger of the printed word are Ramos, German (adapt.) El robo de las aes priest in person, who is, in embodied by a giant lizard [The theft of the "A"s] turn, so impressed that he is built from countless "A"s. Caracas: Ediciones Ekaré, (10+) reconciled with his opponent Banco del Libro, 1983. 148pp1 and stops the insults. ISBN 84-8351-031-6 In this story, freedom of Freedom of speech Freedom expression and of the press of the press -Tolerance are uncompromisingly
USA
Neighbours Strangeness weapona small inconspic- Concept of the enemy uous ball. Whether everything Intolerance Armament War leads to catastrophe because nobody listens to reason or Seuss paints and tells the accepts any arbitration or story of an escalating conflict whether the vicious circle can between two peoples from the be broken is left for the reader point of view of a simple, to decide. In certain ways this obedient front-line soldier. story reflects the world's The neighbours are enemies situation at the time of the because in one land the Cold War with its ideological people butter their bread on debates and attempts to gain 32 the topside, while in the other advantage through superiority Seuss, ...
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The red general and the blue enemies as fellow human general indoctrinate their Guten Tag, beings. So the soldiers are lieber Feind! respective armies: the so- rr4Italvon united and the war comes to Codn. Roiseming. called enemies are imputed to dkistriert an end. The generals lose their have horns on their foreheads jobs and are allowed to or to have poison-spraying become a woodcutter and a elephant's trunks. It comes to swineherd in the newly battle and both sides want to founded village. As soon as a win. The cannons begin to new enemy army comes close, thunder. This causes the gene- the whole village welcomes rals to fall from their horses. them with the phrase "Hello, The horses run to the river to dear enemy!". drink. One is a stallion and the 33 The sarcastically caricaturizing other is a mare and they are Steineke, Inge (illus.) but nevertheless delicate and immediately attracted to one Pausewang, Gudrun (text) richly detailed illustrations go another. In order to get the Guten Tag, lieber Feind! very well with the text. (8+) precious animals out of the [Hello, dear enemyi] Köln: Middelhauve, 1986. [28ppl river, the soldiers from both (Middelhauve-Bilderbuch) sides must take off their ISBN 3-7876-9209-6 uniforms. Then the good Translations: Danish people, naked as the day they Prejudice -War Military - were born, recognize their Reconciliation
The Netherlands
When Rat pitches camp on the same time fun and challenging, edge of the wood, Frog's friends is an example to all of us. Like react in a well-known way: a mirror, the story shows us our "If you ask me he looks like a reaction to strangers. The book filthy, dirty rat" or "You have to is a combination of naive watch out for rats, they steal drawings in brilliant colours things". However, Frog wants to and a simple but memorable form his own opinion. So they story. Friendly and humorous in become friends and Rat proves word and image, the message Max Velthuis Kikker en de yreerndeling to be an interesting and helpful gets through to the reader. (4+) kopold neighbour. Although Pig and Duck have a lot of prejudices, 36 they are also impressed by Rat's Velthuijs, Max (illus./text) qualities, especially because he Kikker en de vreemdeling is a good story-teller. When Rat (Frog and the stranger) decides that he wants to move Amsterdam: Leopold, 1993. j26ppl on, the others want nothing ISBN 90-258-4766-8 more than that he will stay with Translations: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, them. Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish Frog, an endearing character, Racism Xenophobia whose adventures are at the Prejudice -Tolerance
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35 Trier, \A/alter (illus.) Kästner, Erich (text) Die Konferenz der Tiere. Nach einer Idee von Jella Lepman (The animals' conference) [From an idea by Jena Lepmanl Zurich:Atrium, 1998. 64pp ISBN 3-85535-991-1 (Original ed. Zurich: Europa-Verl., 1949) Translations: Basque, Dutch, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish PacifismMilitarism
Inspired by Jella Lepman, measures compel the dele- congenially match Kästner's written by Erich Kästner and gates to sign a resolution for typically dry humour. (6+) illustrated by Walter Trier, this world peace. picture book belongs among Kästner is the guarantee that the children's classics about the theme of peace is not too peace. Written in the after- dryly dealt with; his text is full math of World War ll (the of humour and irony, but he book was first published in also knows how to appeal to 1949), this book tells of how the feelings of his readers. the animals, for the sake of the Walter Trier has, in his last children, want to force picture book, achieved one of humans to make progress in his greatest performances. their hitherto fruitless peace Page after page is filled with conferences. They too call a colourful pictures of lively conference into being that has scenes. Never caustic, his extremely effective results: the caricatures of animals and animals break up one of the humans ensure that the useless conferences in Cape relatively extensive text is Town and through unusual always entertaining. They
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South AfricaApartheid her hard-won right to vote. ElectionsCivil rights The expressive faces and the obviously exuberant joy of the At the end of apartheid, the protagonists allow the reader black citizens of South Africa and observer to experience the could vote equally and freely happiness of the people. The on April 27'h, 1994 for the first book is an optimistic plea for time in the long, conflict- the protection of democratic ridden history of their country. rights and equality. Through This historic event is witnessed these the hope for a peaceful in the book through the eyes and violence-free future in of eight-year-old Thembi. She freedom can be realized. (8+) accompanies her hundred- 37 year-old great-grandmother Wilson, Sharon (illus.) Gogo to the polling station Batezat Sisulu, Elinor (text) and experiences at first-hand The day Gogo went to vote the meaning and solemnity of Cape Town:Tafelberg Publ., this day. Symbolic of many 1997. [32pp1 ISBN 0-624-03548-4 South Africans, the old woman (First ed. New York: Little, is portrayed as a determined Brown and Company, 1996) citizen who will let nothing prevent her from exercising
Italy
Armament Disarmament flies across the circus ring. IVATIELO A VAPOREI Pacifism The story retells Man's age- Anna Lavolcili II Cannon Burn! old desire to turn swords into The story is a fantasy in which ploughshares. In the circus a lethal weapon changes itself a peaceful alternative to war into a peaceful object and in and destructionthe cannon this form serves mankind. is changed into a bringer of Boom the cannon is scrapped happiness. and mothballed when the The Czech illustrator, who lives war comes to an end. At the in Italy, expresses the message beginning of the story Boom of the story in the warm pastel is still famous, but soon tones of his watercolour illus- 39 forgotten. A long time passes trations. They supplement the Zahradka, Mirek (illus.) before the director of a circus text through their humorous Lavatelli, Anna (text) discovers the cannon and details. (6+) II cannone Bum! gives it a useful new job. To [The cannon Boom!I the joy of the audience, it no Casale Monferrato: Piemme longer uses lethal ammunition Junior, 1995. l6Oppl (II battello a vapore / Serie but instead shoots a human bianca; 13) cannonball who performs ISBN 88-384-3413-1 breathtaking acrobatics as he
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38 Young, Ed (illus.) Coerr, Eleanor (text) Sadako
Sadako was two years old in her grave with a chain of a with reflected light on their when the bomb fell on Hiro- thousand paper cranes. Three faces. The pictures illuminate shima. Ten years later she dies years later a statue of Sadako the story unsentimentally of leukemia. This authentic with a golden crane in her while still capturing its emotio- and at the same time exempla- outstretched arms is erected nal depth. The sympathy of the ry tale describes a typical fate on the Paradise Mountain of family, friend, doctors and of children in Hiroshima, but Hiroshima, which children nurses is discretely shown. The in this case the accompany- decorate every year on Peace death of Sadako appears as a ing circumstances are so Day with garlands made from liberating event: the angular exceptional that a statue is thousands of folded paper paper birds transform into an later erected in memory of the cranes. The statue embodies unending flock of real cranes. events. Because in a Japanese the wish for peace of all The transfiguring final picture legend the crane is granted a children of this world. The of the statue of Sadako is lifetime of a thousand years illustrations by the Chinese- meant equally as a message and therefore a thousand born American artist play an and a vision. Sadako is folded paper cranes can make important part in the elevated to a harbinger of a sick person well again, interpretation of this story. The peace who has overcome the Sadako starts to fold such coloured pastel drawings on trauma of Hiroshima. (10+) birds. After her death her softly textured paper gently school friends complete her bring out the universality of work, so that she can be laid the figures. The illustrator plays 29 27 Switzerland © International Youth Library 1998
The farmer family on the right river and get on famously with Die Kinderbrücke- riverbank loathes the family each other. That brings the living on the left bank, and parents to their senses: they vice versa. Each is jealous of don't want to take away the the alleged advantages of the children's pleasure and in other. Thus, those living on the reconciliation build a bridge right bank want to live on the over the river. left bank, whereas those on The rustic form and colour of the left bank think that life on the earthy pictures indicate the the right bank is better. When deep-rooted nature of the the farmers see each other conflict but also the friendli- while working in the fields 40 ness and gaiety of the cele- they throw rocks at each other Zavel, Stépzin (illus.) bration of reconciliation at the in their rage. When the Bolliger, Max (text) end. (6+) farmers' wives see each other Die Kinderbrücke from afar they begin to insult (The children's bridge) Zurich: Bohem Press, 1979, one another. The children 124pp1 ISBN 3-85581-143-1 of each side are free of the Translations: Danish, Dutch, feelings and covetousness English, Finnish, French, Italian, of their parents. They use the Ladin, Swedish rocks thrown by their fathers Neighbours - Envy Hostility as stepping-stones to cross the Child Bridge- Reconciliation
Lithuania
NeighboursHostility War and in this way induces fear Child Peace mediation and terror amongst them. The little girl Sydney Rose from Po This literary fairy-tale from the overcomes her fears and thus largely unknown U.S. author, defeats the monster, that has Joel Nevins, has, so far as we only become so big and can tell, only appeared in powerful because the people Lithuania as a dual-language dreaded him. Together with N4g, Zinr. ON A NT edition with very expressive Christopher Finn from Lis and HEARTFI RE CONIES MOUNTAIN KALNO illustrations by the famous other children from the two Lithuanian artist, Irena villages, she is able to prevent Zviliuvienè. further bloodshed and to free 41 The monster Zog lives on the inhabitants from their Irena (illus.) Heartfire Mountain and stirs prejudices and their fears. Nevins, Joel (text) up hatred between the (9+) Sidigkis, Kestutis inhabitants of the nearby (Lithuanian trans.) On Heartfire Mountain - villages Po and Lis. He fans Ant Ugnies Kalno the flames of hatred and Vilnius: Vyturys, 1988. 28pp prejudice by telling the people no ISBN of one village horror stories about the people in the other
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Name Index
A
Akasaka, Miyoshi 5 Jaguar 13 Scholes, Katherine 12 Ando, Noriyuki 5 Sennell, Joles 9 Arnold, Hans 6 Seuss, ...
Diarra 9 MacKee, David 16, 17 Divendal, Veronica 14 MacNaughton, Colin 17 Yamaguchi, Marianne 27 Domènech, LluIsot 10 Maruki, Toshi 16 Young, Ed 27 Maubille, Jean 18 Mets, Alan 18 Eluard, Paul 10 Mobio, Claire 20 Zahradka, Mirek 26 Elzbieta 11 ZavFel,tepan 28 Ermers, Robert 14 Zviliuvienè, Irena 28 Nasu, Masamoto 20 Ndiaye, Theodore Ndock 9 Nevins, Joel 28 Fassara 9 Nishimura, Shigeo 20 Nomo, Vincent 21
Gallaz, Christophe 13 Goiran, Claude 10 Obo, Makoto 5 Gripe, Maria 6 Oxenbury, Helen 21
Hokumen-Jones, Kazuko 5 Pausewang, Gudrun 24 Peli 23 Popov, Nikolaj 19 lngpen, Robert 12 Innocenti, Roberto 13 Ramos, German 23 Rocha, Ruth 13
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Subject Index
A Freedom of speech 23 Freedom of the press 23 Acceptance 20 Quarrel 17 Africa 9, 21 Aggression 18 Glory 10 Ambition 22 Racial prejudice 8 Angst 17 Racism 16, 18, 20, 24 Apartheid 26 Radiation injuries 5, 16, 20 Hiroshima 5, 16, 20,27 Argument 8 Reconciliation 8, 17, 21, Hospitality 21 Armament 23, 26 24, 28 Human Rights 12 Atom bomb 5,16, 20,27 Reconstruction 21 Hydrogen bomb 5 Atomic weapons 20 Resistance 14
Immigrant 18 Bikini atoll 5 Skin colour 16, 20 Intolerance 8, 14, 17, 23 Bridge 9, 28 South Africa 26 Bullfight 15 Strangeness 17, 23
Leukemia 27 Cain and Abel
30 3 2 Hello, dear enemy! Tips for using this catalogue Picture Books for Peace and Tolerance An International Selection As this is a selection of picture books, the titles Published by: Internationale Jugendbibliothek, are arranged alphabetically by illustrator, but München / International Youth Library, Munich due to the graphical design of the catalogue, in cooperation with IBBY in some cases their placement is not strictly (International Board on Books for Young People) numerical. 0 1998 Internationale lugendbibliothek The books are listed under their country of
Selection and texts: origin. For books in languages other than Martha Baker, Dr. Andreas Bode, English we note either the title of the English Toin Duijx, Lene Eubel-Plag, Fumiko Ganzenmuller, language edition (in parantheses) or give Werner Winer, Dr. Barbara Scharioth, Christa Stegemann, a literal English translation of the original title Carmen Volpe, lochen Weber [in square brackets]. The bibliographical Editorial work: Dr. Barbara Scharioth details also include information about foreign- and Jochen Weber language editions, so far as they are known Translation: Elizabeth Page to us. However, it was not possible to include Layout + cover des*: Edda Greif a copy of each translated edition in the
Cover illustration: travelling exhibition. We would be pleased Antoni Boratyriski. Illus. from ',Der Krieg und sein Bruder. (cat. no. 51. to learn of other translations that are not With permission of Patmos Verlag. listed here. The title of the catalogue is taken from .Guten Tag, lieber Feindl The subject index is based (as far as possible) (cat. no. 331. With permission of Gertraud Middelhauve Verlag. on the literal English translation of terms
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IBBY International Board on Books for Young People was brought to life in 1953 on the initiative of Jella Lepman, the founder of the International Youth Library. Some sixty National Sections are members of this worldwide non-profit organization. They are united in promoting children's and young people's literature in their respective countries. The Secretariat in Basel provides the basis for the voluntary work of the President and the Executive Committee, who are elected by the General Assembly at the IBBY Congress. A different National Section hosts the IBBY International Congress every two years. The 26th Congress will be held in New Delhi in September 1998. The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are also presented at the Congress to an author and an illustrator for their complete body of work. A series of regular activities, including IBBY's journal »Bookbird«, the IBBY Honour List and the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award, are expressions of the efforts of IBBY to bring books and reading to the children of the world. More information can be obtained directly from the IBBY Secretariat, Nonnenweg 12, Postfach, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland. Fax: +41-61/2722757; E-mail: [email protected]
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