VOL. 51, NO.1 JANUARY 2013 Feature Articles: Our Common Earth: The Local and Global Flow of Narrative in A River of Stories • Heal the World, Make It a Better Place • The Child-Poet Gwen Cope in the Land of “Australian Faery” • The Mountain and the Devil: Fake Lore or Folklore? • Paranoid Prizing Children and Their Books: The Power of Caribbean Poetry • Flying to Pick Blueberries The 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 office is supported by the Augustana Faculty at the University of Alberta, Camrose, Alberta, Canada. Editorial Review Board: Peter E. 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Bookbird is indexed in Library Literature, Library and Information Abstracts (LISA), Children’s Book Review Index, and the MLA International Bibliography. Cover image: Cover image of A River of Stories courtesy of Jan Pieńkowski. Jan Pieńkowski, born in Warsaw in 1936, went to the UK in 1946. He was educated at Cardinal Vaughan School, London, and King’s College, Cambridge, where he read Classics and English. He has written and illustrated over a hundred children’s books and won the Library Association Kate Greenaway Medal twice. He is currently working on theatre design. Editorial | iii Introduction A River of Stories Alice Curry and Lydia Kokkola | iv Our Common Earth: The Local and Global Flow of Narrative in A River of Stories Alice Curry | 1 Heal the World; Make It a Better Place: Social and Individual Hope in Indian Children's Cinema Jayashree Rajagopalan | 10 “She flings her elfin dreams of mystery”: The Child-Poet Gwen Cope in the Land of “Australian Faery,” 1931–1939 Nicole Anae | 20 Feature Articles The Mountain and the Devil: Fake Lore or Folklore? A Wonder of the World in South African Children’s Literature Tanya Barben | 31 Paranoid Prizing: Mapping Australia’s Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, 2001-2010 Erica Hateley | 41 The Power of Caribbean Poetry: Word and Sound Morag Styles | 51 Flying to Pick Blueberries: Two Preschoolers’ Literary Encounters with other Cultures Virginia Lowe | 60 Reading Camp: Children from the Bahamas Develop a New Appreciation of Children & Their Books Children’s Literature Joyce Armstrong | 67 Belonging and Differentiating: Aspects of New Zealand National Identity Reflected in the New Zealand Picture Book Collection (NZPBC) Nicola Daly | 73 The Triumphant Return of the Dodo: Emergent Children’s Literature in Mauritius Letters Sandra Williams | 80 The Growth towards a Truly African Quality in South African Children’s Literature Jean Williams and Jay Heale | 87 IBBY.ORG 51.1 – 2013 | i Young Irelands: Studies in Children’s Literature by Mary Shine Thompson Anthony Pavlik | 94 A Made-Up Place by Anna Jackson, Geoffrey Miles, Harry Ricketts, Tatjana Schaefer, and Kathryn Walls B.J. Epstein | 95 Seedlings: English Children’s Reading and Writers in South Africa by Elwyn Jenkins B.J. Epstein | 97 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Reviews of Secondary Literature by Robin Bernstein Samantha Christensen | 99 Dogodogo: Tanzanian Street Children Tell Their Stories by Kasia Parham Lilian Vikiru | 9 To chamogelo tis Semelis [Semeli’s smile] by Marina Michaelidou–Kadi, illus. by Constanze von Kitzing Christina Christodoulou | 19 The People from the Sea by J.O. de Graft Hanson Rose Austin | 40 Postcards Adventure at Brimstone Hill by Carol Ottley-Mitchell Nahdjla Carasco Bailey | 59 That Boy Red by Rachna Gilmore Karyn Huennemann | 66 Yellow Mini by Lori Weber Sylvia Vardell | 72 Focus IBBY | 103 ii | booKbirD IBBY.ORG Editorial © Jan Pieńkowski Dear Bookbird Readers, am pleased to present Bookbird 51.1, the first of 2013’s two guest-edited, themed issues of IBBY’s journal. This year, IBBY celebrates its 60th Anniversary. This organization of more than I70 national sections all over the world has come a long way since its remarkable founder, Jella Lepman (1891–1970), invited delegates to Munich to attend International Understanding through Children’s Books, the meeting that eventually led to IBBY’s foundation in October 1953. This issue of Bookbird has been prepared in collabo- ration with another well-established organization: the Common- Bookbird Editor wealth Educational Trust (CET), which shares many of the same goals as IBBY. Like IBBY, the CET is an international organiza- tion of people who are committed to increasing the opportunities for children to develop the critical thinking, empathy, and cultural literacy essential for a child to thrive in today’s societies. By bringing books and children together, both organizations aim to promote international understanding and responsible citizenship. The expertise and energy guest editors Alice Curry and Lydia Kokkola have brought to this issue, and Bettina Kuemmerling- Roxanne Harde is an Associate Professor Meibauer is bringing to the Multicultural issue (Summer 2013), of English and a McCalla University ensure these issues will resonate with the journal’s international Professor at the University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty. She studies and audience. And their collective and individual work on and for chil- teaches American literature and culture. dren’s literature has had me thinking about all the members of our She has recently published Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to global community who work with children and their books. Like the Works of Bruce Springsteen, and A River of Stories collected by Alice for the CET, Bookbird brings her essays have appeared in several journals, including International Research together people with diverse backgrounds, from disparate cultures, in Children’s Literature, The Lion and and a variety of disciplines. I hope you enjoy this issue which, the Unicorn, Christianity and Literature, Legacy, Jeunesse, Critique, Feminist thanks to Alice and Lydia, brings together work from across the Theology, and Mosaic, and several edited Commonwealth, from people who dedicate their effort and talent collections, including Enterprising Youth to this discipline and its audience. and To See the Wizard. © 2013 by BooKbirD, INC. EDitorial Introduction Bookbird Guest Editors Alice Curry is an Honorary Associate of Lydia Kokkola is Professor of English Macquarie University and the Children’s and Didactics at Luleå University of Literature Advisor to the Commonwealth Technology, Sweden. Her main areas Education Trust, for whom she compiled of research are English as a Foreign and edited A River of Stories. She is Language, Second Language Acquisition, currently working closely with educators Holocaust Fiction, Trauma Fiction, to produce a blended media education Adolescent Sexuality, Advanced Literacy package