Å. Ommundsen, Gro Marie Stavem, Anne Kristine Øgreid
{"title":"The Role of the Child in a War Zone: 10-year-old Students' Responses to a Cognitively Challenging Picturebook on War – An Interview Study","authors":"Å. Ommundsen, Gro Marie Stavem, Anne Kristine Øgreid","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903435","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores how a shared reading of a challenging picturebook about war, Når kaniner blir redde [When Rabbits Get Scared] (Svingen and Slocinska), may foster students' critical and emotional literacy. The research question is: How may a shared reading of this challenging picturebook about war promote critical and emotional literacy in 10-year-old students? According to Martha Nussbaum, developing students' narrative imaginations through stories is a prerequisite for educating responsible citizens (Nussbaum Cultivating Humanity; Nussbaum Not for Profit). Picturebooks can be a tool for such education. The data were collected in an intervention project and the authors present the findings from student group interviews by identifying characteristics of critical and emotional literacy. The analysis demonstrates that a shared picturebook reading of this book may foster the students as responsible actors by promoting their ability to see the world from other people's perspectives and ignite critical, independent voices in them.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"16 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45413095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Urmeneta, Ja'nos Kovacs-Navarro, Soledad Véliz Córdova
{"title":"La Guerra de los Yacarés: Between (self-)censorship and nostalgia","authors":"I. Urmeneta, Ja'nos Kovacs-Navarro, Soledad Véliz Córdova","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"81 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48803465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I, Mediator. Mediation and readers' education by Felipe Munita (review)","authors":"P. Álvarez","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903445","url":null,"abstract":"British author Cicely Mary Barker and relates them to the picturebooks by Swedish author Elsa Beskow. The subject of Lykke GaunioUluru’s contribution is the vegetables in Terry Trenton’s book “The 52-Storey Treehouse’ from the popular “Treehouse’ series. Francesca Arnavas explores eccentric plant species in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” novels. Melanie Duckworth looks at “trees and mothers” in Australian middle-grade literature. Jose Monfred sheds light on the “Vegetal Modality of Resistance in Children’s Books by/for Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines”, while Tijana Tropin and Ivana Mijić Nemet provide insight into magical plants in Serbian children’s literature, which was previously little known internationally. One of the volume’s great merits is its heterogeneity and the often original subject matter of the essays. Despite their mostly narrow focus, the in-depth explorations undertaken by the contributors are very readable and comprehensible, even without a more detailed knowledge of the works and their context. The volume provides the opportunity to discover something truly new and offer insights that can be applied to other authors, works, literatures, or contexts. It invites readers to develop this little-explored field of research and to engage in more international exchange. An international conference would be desirable. In any case, one can conclude after reading the volume: More, please!","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":" ","pages":"71 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47447950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curious About George by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre (review)","authors":"Jutta Reusch","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903449","url":null,"abstract":"as the common ephemera of any household, supplements literary skills. It reveals new ways in which surfaces can contribute to the narrative and bolster children’s emergent literacy. Furthermore, eating is most successfully connected to reading when the reading material is literally edible. In the past, the gingerbread hornbook became the delicious reward for learning the alphabet, while alphabet soups have always been both a tasty dinner and a language lesson. Now, technology permits appetizing combinations of food and literature (for example, sweet haikus written in marmalade on bread slices), so taste is added to the reading experience establishing lifelong reading habits. Consumable Reading and Children’s Literature by Ilgim Veryeri Alaca opens up delectable new ways of viewing picturebooks, eating, and reading.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"67 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48703063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"War and Displacement in Children's Literature","authors":"Mateusz Świetlicki, C. Malilang","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49134088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Paradox of the DMZ: Making War, Division, and Unification Intelligible Through Korean Picture Books","authors":"Yeojoo Lim, Sarah Park-Dahlen","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903439","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In South Korea, remnants of the Korean War are everywhere, especially at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the 160-mile strip separating the two Koreas. The DMZ is a paradox: a site of intense militarism and great biodiversity, virtually untouched over decades of division. Inspired by Sohyun An's research on how American and international children's books portray the Korean War, we examine how South Korean picture books portray the paradox of the DMZ, specifically how it exists and what its future might be. We analyze five picture books alongside our observations at a DMZ peace park and war museum, and consider how these books contribute to what South Korean children might learn about division and war, the DMZ, and the complexities of unification and commercialization.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"45 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41638303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Antonio Martínez-Carratalá, Sebastián Miras
{"title":"Poetry, Art and Historical Memory: Fostering Dialogue about War","authors":"Francisco Antonio Martínez-Carratalá, Sebastián Miras","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903438","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Art, in its different manifestations, is one of the many ways in which human beings express themselves and reflect on how they construct meanings, not only about themselves but also about their historical, social, and cultural context. In the case of literature, these stories bring readers closer to realities and topics that are different from their own, which allows them to broaden their experience. The present study analyzes two poetic works that interpret, from different perspectives, the effects and consequences of some of the most terrible episodes of the twentieth century; namely, World War II and the dictatorships in Latin America. The conclusions highlight the relevance of this type of work for the development of critical thinking through art to keep track of and repair the wounds of historical memory.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"36 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47792000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Images to Explore the Indigenous Experience of Conflict in Australian Children's Picturebooks","authors":"M. Baguley, Martin Kerby","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903440","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Australian children's picturebook authors and illustrators who choose armed conflict as their subject matter inevitably grapple with the paradox that, while war is a central component of national identity, the experience of Indigenous peoples remains, at best, underrepresented. This article uses the ideational, interpersonal, and textual meta-functions developed by Clare Painter et al. to compare how the Indigenous experience of conflict is represented in the Australian children's picturebooks Alfred's War (Bin Salleh and Fry) and Multuggerah and the Sacred Mountain (Uhr and O'Halloran).","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"55 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41817934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wordlessness of Hope: A conversation with Oleksandr Shatokhin","authors":"C. Malilang","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"77 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44784186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}