{"title":"“And Now This Story Is Ours”: Fairy Tale and Collage in Trung Le Nguyen’s The Magic Fish","authors":"Barbara Tannert-Smith","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Trung Le Nguyen’s semiautobiographical fictional debut, The Magic Fish, has been praised for the complexity of its narrative structure, specifically its braiding together of Vietnamese and Western fairy tales; its engagement with the communication struggles of first- and second-generation immigrants, not least its portrayal of the bond between an immigrant mother and her naturalized American son; and the subtle portrayal of its thirteen-year-old protagonist’s struggle coming out to his immigrant family. In this essay, I will argue for the significance of Nguyen’s novel’s seamless fusion of content and form in his adaptation of fairy tale structure within the graphic novel format. Specifically, I will argue that Nguyen complicates the young adult coming-of-age formula and contests conventional discursive structures mapped onto the adolescent experience. The German and Vietnamese fairy tale narratives adapted and transformed within the text, combined with graphic novel form, create a structure capable of not merely contesting dominant discourses of cultural identity and sexuality, but projecting the possibility of queer futures.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"22 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42773047","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":"Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education. International Perspectives on Language and Literature Learning ed. by Åse Marie Ommundsen, Gunnar Haaland, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (review)","authors":"L. Rizzuto","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"74 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44235698","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":"Ehon Gaka Akaba Suekichi. Sūho no sōgen ni kakeru niji. [Picture Book Artist Akaba Suekichi. Rainbow over the Field of Suho] by Shigeno Akaba (review)","authors":"Reina Nakano","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"61 1","pages":"76 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47126578","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":"Postcards","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.a903448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.a903448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135829812","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":"Postcards","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66285558","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":"Letter from Bookbird, Inc., President","authors":"Valerie Coghlan","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48367740","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":"Aesthetic Entanglements in the Age of the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Reading of Shaun Tan's Tales from the Inner City","authors":"L. Kerslake","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Shaun Tan's evocative Tales from the Inner City (2018) and explores how, through word and image, Tan questions the effects of the Anthropocene and the possible synergies and tensions between the human and more-than-human in his work, inviting us to look at human and animal relationships in new and challenging ways. To do so, I draw on concepts such as empathy and an ethics of care to question the privileged anthropocentrism of Western society and human exceptionalism over animals.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"38 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482075","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":"Crossroads between Nonfiction Books and Picturebooks: The Relevance of Designing the Information","authors":"A. M. Ramos, D. Navas","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study focuses on the analysis of two nonfiction books: Lá fora (Outside), published in 2014 by Planeta Tangerina in Portugal, and Lá no meu quintal (There in My Backyard), published in 2019 by Peirópolis in Brazil. By comparing these two innovative nonfiction books, both concerning the promotion of a more intense relationship between children and nature, the analysis underlines the influence of the picturebook format not only in the creation of a close synergy between text and illustrations, but also on book design. The relevance of the illustration in order to convey information is also strengthened by other visual and graphic elements, creating a hybrid and multimodal format that attracts readers' attention and interest.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"17 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508168","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":"Frida Kahlo in Picturebooks: What Do Her Pictures Want?","authors":"Danielle Terceiro","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interest in the life and work of Frida Kahlo continues to grow, and is now manifest in many picturebook representations of her life and work. These picturebook versions quote her iconic self-portraits in their illustrations, but instead of demanding veneration, these picturebooks use \"totemic\" characters alongside representations of Kahlo to invite young readers into less fraught, more playful, storyworlds.","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"58 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48662469","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":"Focus Ibby","authors":"Liz Page, M. O'Brien","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42208,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird-A Journal of International Childrens Literature","volume":"60 1","pages":"89 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46562760","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}