DOCUMENT RESUME ED 460 338 CS 013 280 TITLE The White Ravens: A Selection of International Children's and Youth Literature, 1994-1998. INSTITUTION International Youth Library, Munich (Germany). PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 394p.; Supported by the German Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, and the City of Munich. AVAILABLE FROM International Youth Library Munich, Schloss Bluthenberg, D-81247 Munich, Germany. For full text: http://www.ijb.de. PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC16 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescent Literature; Annotated Bibliographies; *Childrens Literature; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Reading Material Selection; *Recreational Reading IDENTIFIERS Book Fairs ABSTRACT This set of five separately-published annual bibliographies present annotations of children's and youth literature chosen for literary and/or graphic qualities to be part of the Bologna Children's Book Fair. The 1994 bibliography contains over 200 titles in 28 languages from 40 countries; the 1995 issue contains over 170 titles in 25 languages from 38 countries; the 1996 issue contains nearly 250 titles in 27 languages from 43 counties; the 1997 issue contains 275 titles in 23 languages from 43 countries; and the 1998 issue contains 253 titles in 28 languages from 46 countries. Annotations in the bibliography are arranged in 7 groups based on geographic area of the world or family of languages. (Contains author and illustrator name and subject indexes.) 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Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE The White Ravens1994 A Selection of International Children's and Youth Literature INTERNA-_E) TIONALE (o' JUGEND BIBLIOTHEK 3 The White Ravens 1994 A Selection of International Children's and Youth Literature INTERNA-1 TIONALE JUGEND BIBUOTHEK Internationale Jugendbibliothek München International Youth Library Munich Bibliotheque Internationale de la Jeunesse Munich Biblioteca Internazionale Della GioyentO Monaco 4 INTERNA- (T) TIONALE : D JUGEND BIBLIOTHEK International Youth Library Impressum The White Ravens 1994 A Selection of International Children's and Youth Literature International Youth Library Munich SchloI3 Blutenburg, D-81247 München Germany Selection: East Asian Languages Fumiko Ganzenmiiller (Japanese) Dan yan Chen (Chinese) East European Languages Doris Amberg (Hungarian) Gerlinde Burger (Romanian) Werner Kilffner (Czech, Croatian, Lithuanian, Mordvian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian) Dr. Alexandra Stavropulos (Greek, Turkish, Cypriot) English Martha Baker Barbara Haberl German Christa Stegemann Romance Languages Dr. Andreas Bode (Italian) Eve lin Höhne (Spanish, Portugese) Dorothee Pfeiffer (French) Scandinavian Languages Dr. Andreas Bode Other Languages Toin Duijx (Afrikaans, Dutch, Flemish, Frisian) Preface For many years The White Ravens have been appearing in time for the Children's Book Fair in Bologna. This selection offers international and German mediators between books and children a guide to the current international production of youth literature by presenting books which are striking in their literary and/or graphic qualities. During the Bologna Children's Book Fair these books will be displayed at the International Youth Library stand (Hall 30 A28) and Thereafter as a travelling exhibition in different sites. Sections of The White Ravens have in the past been reprinted by individual libraries in Germany and elsewhere and will appear in 1994 in the information bulletin of the International Youth Library, the LIB- Report. The library will be pleased to grant permission to any institution wishing to reprint parts of the catalog upon written request on the condition that the IYL be given clear recognition. The annotations of this catalogue are arranged in seven groups based on a geographical area of the world or a family of languages. The number of titles in each group was apportioned taking the constraints of the catalogue into account; this number was somewhat adjusted according to the number of titles submitted. In addition, the library's Lektoren have highlighted specific titles to which they wish to draw particular attention for the widest possible recognition - the special mentions. This selection of over 200 titles in 28 languages from 40 countries certainly makes no claim to being exhaustive. It is drawn from last year's new acquisitions sC-nt to the IYL by publishers from around the world. Unfortunately, not all the publishing houses which consistently and generously supply the IYL with their books could be mentioned. Still, we want to cordially thank them all for their shipments and assure them or representation in our depository collection. In conclusion, a request to publishers: Please continue to send us your books! We aspire to fulfil the expectation that the International Youth Library in Munich be the home of the most comprehensive collection of international literature for children and young people available worldwide. Dr. Barbara Scharioth Munich, March 1994 6 East Asian Languages until she is given a second mother. (10+) Japan The title story received the second Hirosuke- dOwashei Prize. 1 Akutagawa, Rytinosuke (text) Miyamoto, Junko (illus.) 3Hata, Yoshiko (text/illus.) Torokko (The Truck) Kakekko shiy6 (Do you want to race?) Tokyo: Kaiseisha, 1993. 4Opp Tokyo: Iwasaki shoten, 1993. 28pp (Nihon no distwa tneisakusen) ISBN 4-265-01127-6 ISBN 4-03-963610-4 Vitality - Nature Child - Fear - Relativity of Life "Who wants to race with me?" calls out a How unusual illustrations can be is show in young boy. First of all a bird answers, then this picture book with "Yftzen"-coloring a fish, then wind, clouds and rain, and technique and batik, colored pictures on silk finally the sun. The boy and the natural crepe for a short story by the well-known elements racing with him convey vitality, the modern classic writer Akutagawa. The wish fundamental theme of this picture book. The of the eight-year-old village boy Ryohei to drama of the race is expressed in the colors ride justonce on a truck is granted one and the vigorous brush strokes, which winter day. Immediately after that he must fascinate the reader. (3+) experience the terrible fear of being left alone in a strange place. In this way the 4Ishiguro, Namiko (reteller) irony of life is symbolically shown. (10+) Kajiyama, Toshio (reteller/illus.) Dagodago korokoro (An Old Woman 2Awa, Naoko (text) and a Dumpling) Ajito, Keiko (illus.) Tokyo: Fukuinkan shoten, 1994. [32pp] Hanamame no nieru made - Sayo no ISBN 4-8340-1218-2 Folktale/Japan - Demon - Dragonfly - monogatari(Until the Beans are Gratitude CookedThe Story of Sayo) Toshio Kajiyama is one of the few illustra Tokyo: Kaiseisha, 1993. 142pp tors who still cultivates the traditional (Keiseisha wandtirando 10) Japanese style of painting. In this picture ISBN 4-03-540100-5 book he has reduced his characteristic brush Modern Fairy Tale/JapanNatural Spirli - stroke, making the pictures more memora Daughter ble. Even the western reader will find them This author occupies a special position in less foreign. This folktale deals with an old Japanese children's literature on account of woman who must prepare rice dumplings for her fairy tales. She unites mysterious Nature the demons and is rescued from the demon's with the reality of the profane world, whe- captivity by the red dragonflies. (3+) reby her tales usually end in tragedy or are marked with melancholy. This book contains six stories about a 12-year-old girl named 5Kadono, Eiko (text) Sayo, child of the son of a tavern owner and Hirono, Takako (illus.) the daughter of a mountain spir:t. Because of Majo no takkyfibin sono 2Kiki to her great longing, her mother, transformed into wind, returns to her original world. At atarashii mah8 (The Witch's Special home and in nature marvellous things hap- Delivery Service. Vol. 2: Kiki and pen. Sayo becomes acquainted with natural Her New Magic) spirits and demons and become wind, her- Tokyo: Fukuinkan shoten, 1993. 400pp self, like her mother. Still she feels lonely, 7 ISBN 4-8340-1174-7 4 East Asian Languages Witch - Independence - Identity Crisis for instance, a girl, eyeglasses, a dinosaur, Fifteen-year-old Kiki is half witch, half etc. This book consists not just of instruc- human and thus endowed with only one kind tions for a game, but cleverly forms a chain of magicflying on a broom. For serveral story.ln Japan such games are much loved years she has been living on her own, self- by children. (3+) supporting through her special delivery 'service and is much loved by people. In the Special Mention second volume she has a conflict of cons- cience and thus an identity crisis. The story is amusing, full of fantasy and quite realisti- 8Sakata, Hiroo (text) cally written. The reader can readily under- Chô, Shinta (illus.) stand the behavior and reactions of the pro- Dakuchiru dakuchiru - Hajimete no uta tagonist. (10+) (Dactyl Dactyl - The First Song of the World) 6Matsui, Tadashi (reteller) Based on a poem by Valentin Dmitrievich And6, Norika (illus.) Berestov. Oni no ko Kozuna (The Demon Child Tokyo: Fukuinkan shoten, 1993. 132pp] Kozuna) ISBN4-8340-1220-4 Dinosaur - Loneliness - Harmony - Nature Tokyo: lwasald shown, 1993. 31pp - Humanity ISBN 4-265-03333-4 In spite of the roaring noise of the fire- Fairy Tale/Japan - Demon - Self-sacrifice spewing mountains all around him, the giant After a long search, the father finds his Iguanadon is lonely.