{"title":"Burgzorgs Blik. Zwarte mensen in prentenboeken en beeldverhalen van 1910 tot nu. [Burgzorg’s Perspective. Black People in Picture Books from 1910 to the Present by Ricardo Burgzorg and Arjan Peters (review)","authors":"T. Duijx","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"38 6","pages":"73 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141355442","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":"Kästner-Handbuch. Leben—Werk—Wirkung. [Kästner-Handbook. Life—Work—Impact.] ed. by Stefan Neuhaus (review)","authors":"Ines Galling, Nikola von Merveldt","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929802","url":null,"abstract":"Mit dem Jahre 1500 scheint eine Neue Welt angebrochen, eine Neue Zeit! Die Feste Granada ist gefallen und auch Konstantinopel. Kolumbus entdeckt Amerika, und Kopernikus stellt jene Sonne ins Zentrum des Alls, die Karl V. in seinem Reiche nicht mehr sinken sah. Leonardo da Vinci entwirft Flugmaschinen und Martin Luther seine Thesen. Die erste grose Aristoteles-Ausgabe in griechischer Sprache wird in Venedig abgeschlossen, und Erasmus von Rotterdam schreibt neben dem „Lob der Torheit“ seinen „Tugendspiegel fur die Jugend“. Im Titel eines Flugblattes erscheint zum ersten Male das Wort „Zeitung“. Die Fugger haben soeben zu Augsburg eine offene Handelsgesellschaft gegrundet und mit ihrem „Welthandelshaus“ den Grund gelegt zu jenem okonomischen Zeitalter, das unter den okologischen Gleichgewichtsverlusten unserer Tage soeben zu Ende geht.","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"23 7","pages":"66 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141356710","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":"Wild Visionary. Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context by Golan Y. Moskowitz (review)","authors":"E. G. Ginzburg","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"65 4","pages":"68 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141358110","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":"Peperini: A Comics Series for Young Readers by Diabolo Edizioni","authors":"Eva van de Wiele","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929813","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Italian comics are increasingly present in bookshops and newsstands alike. Evolving into a new, book-like format—with its associated legitimacy—this medium tries to appeal to young readers who are used to reading picturebooks. Among these newly emerging Italian comics is Diabolo Edizioni’s Peperini series—a prime example of formal and thematic innovation.","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"6 6","pages":"61 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357817","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 Power of Translation: Rediscovering the Work of Renée Reggiani for Young Readers Today","authors":"Claudia Alborghetti","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929810","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Renée Reggiani began her career as a children’s writer with her best-selling novel Le avventure di cinque ragazzi e un cane (The Adventures of Five Children and a Dog; 1960), also translated in English, among other languages. From then on, Reggiani found a way to talk about urgent social issues in Italy through a narrative style that engages young readers to follow her protagonists’ adventures. Her work is characterized by concise, clear language to reach the young reader’s heart; it explores the condition of children and women in society, poverty, and the difficult relations between the industrialized north and the more backward south of Italy. While Reggiani’s work has been translated both in the UK and the United States, recent research has shown the extensive rewriting in the English translation undermining the critical approach to social issues that characterizes Reggiani’s works. This article aims to facilitate the rediscovery of Reggiani’s literary talent for the contemporary Italian public and international readership alike by giving her original voice back through retranslation.","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"96 19","pages":"48 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141359451","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":"Francesco D’Adamo’s Ordinary Moral Heroes","authors":"M. Truglio","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929814","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Building on the inspirational “monthly stories” in Edmondo De Amicis’s Cuore, Francesco D’Adamo’s novels present rich resources for youth navigating through the increasingly dehumanized world. His eighteen children’s books narrate compelling and imaginative stories of heroism while avoiding the paternalistic didacticism for which De Amicis and his imitators are often critiqued. D’Adamo won the Premio Andersen Best Writer Award for children’s literature in 2023.","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"85 12","pages":"64 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141359785","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":"Containing Childhood. Space and Identity in Children’s Literature ed. Danielle Russell (review)","authors":"Claudia Söffner","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"17 2","pages":"71 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141359399","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":"Tracing the Evolution of Contemporary Italian Children’s Literature","authors":"Marnie Campagnaro, C. Malilang","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"76 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357967","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":"Watery Imaginings: Exploring the Watercolor Odysseys of Alessandro Sanna","authors":"Marnie Campagnaro","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929811","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Alessandro Sanna, an Italian painter and illustrator, is well known internationally for his bright watercolor odysseys and visual reinterpretations of great classics like Don Quixote, Moby Dick, and Pinocchio. Sanna, Italy’s first Children’s Laureate and three-time Italian Premio Andersen winner, frequently captivates young audiences with wordless visual narratives that use bright water-based inks in novel and creative ways. His most recent visual storytelling voyage, In canto (2023), in collaboration with Giusi Quarenghi’s evocative poetry, draws on past works such as Fiume Lento (2013)—a silent, visual historical account of il Po, Italy’s largest river, thereby establishing his definitive status in contemporary Italian children’s literature.","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"86 9","pages":"55 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357704","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 Long Reach of Creativity: The Lasting Impact of 1970s Italian Children’s Literature","authors":"Marnie Campagnaro","doi":"10.1353/bkb.2024.a929805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2024.a929805","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Between 1968 and 1980, Italy witnessed a dynamic transformation in children’s literature marked by innovative visual, aesthetic, and educational paradigms, involving a profound assimilation of social, cultural, and political dimensions into children’s literature. Children’s books became hubs of interdisciplinary experimentation in which young readers were to be critical cultural participants. These changes took the forms of playful storytelling, intertextuality, nonlinear narratives, and groundbreaking visual, graphic, and material elements. Pioneering technologies further enriched the sensory experience suffusing these books. This article examines the enduring impact of these transformations on Italian children’s literature, focusing particularly on early literacy. It explores four distinct categories of change: the emergence of radical series, innovative adaptations of folk tales, multisensory training grounds, and a trend toward visual narrative cards. These innovations revolutionized prereading education, emphasizing children’s agency and sensory engagement. In studying these shifts, this research underscores the legacy of early experiments in Italian children’s literature, initiatives that continue to shape contemporary children’s literature and education globally, exemplifying the profound impact of a revolutionary period in children’s publishing.","PeriodicalId":513630,"journal":{"name":"Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature","volume":"39 8","pages":"13 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141358649","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}