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  • National and Minority Literatures
Special Issue: Bookbird 32.1 (Spring 1994). Eastern Europe.

Africa
Quiñones, Viviana. "L'édition africaine." La littérature de jeunesse au croisement des
cultures
. Ed. Jean Perrot and Pierre Bruno. Le Perreux: CRDP de L'Académie de Créteil,
1993. 213-17. The situation of publishing for children in Francophone Sub-Saharan
Africa. G.A.

Turin, Joëlle. "L'enthousiasme et la méthode: trois expériences de formation en
Afrique." La littérature de jeunesse au croisement des cultures. Ed. Jean Perrot and Pierre
Bruno. Le Perreux: CRDP de L'Académie de Créteil, 1993. 219-24. An experience with
children's books in Burkina Faso and Rwanda. Weighs the disadvantages of books from
the European culture colonizing African thought against the advantage of opening doors
on new ways of thinking. G.A.

See also BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Khorana

Arab
See ILLUSTRATION: Douglas

Argentina
See AUTHORS: Gustavo Roldán, María Elena Walsh

Australia
Gleeson, Libby. "Australian Children's Book Week: Jakarta 1994." Magpies 9.4 (Sept.
1994): 14-15. Gleeson's experiences at the Australian Indonesia Today 94 exhibition in
Jakarta. J.D.A.

Jameyson, Karen. "News from Down Under." Horn Book 70.4 (July/Aug. 1994): 486-
88. A writer/illustrator's railway book tours through smaller towns. G.A.

Jameyson, Karen. "News from Down Under." Horn Book 70.6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 762-
64. Describes the third Australian Book Fair in Sydney, the children's authors who were
present, and the Great Literacy Debate. G.A.

Mappin, Alf. "The Books of '93." Magpies 9.1 (March 1994): 17-19. Australian
children's books. J.D.A.

Masson, Sophie. "Sophie Masson Talks to Fellow Australian Authors." Reading Time
38.4 (Nov. 1994): 8-12. Victor Kelleher, Claire Carmichael, Paul Jennings and Jane
Tanner, Dominique Falla and Cameron Miller, and Margaret Clark discuss their latest
books. J.D.A.

Sharman, Bob. "Tasmanian Boys and Girls. Writing for Children in the Bush a Hundred
Years Ago." Orana 30.1 (Feb. 1994): 15-27. In 1895, two brothers set out to produce
a children's newspaper in the remote Tasmanian bush settlement of Beulah. Tasmanian
Boys and Girls
now survives in only one copy, vol. 1 no. 2. An examination of this copy
and the story of its printing. From author abstract.

Steinberger, Kevin. "The Queensland Renaissance." Reading Time 38.4 (Nov. 1994):
12-13. An account of the growth of children's literature in Queensland in the past 13
years. J.D.A.

For an itemization of Australian authors, see Children's Literature Abstracts

See also AWARDS: Australian Children's Book of the Year, International Board of
Books for Young People; COLLECTIONS: Hathaway, McGrath, Muir, Wignell;
CRITICS: Masson, Moloney, O'Sullivan, Van Essen, Walker, Welch; CURRICULUM: Durrington, Roberts; FANTASY: Caswell; ILLUSTRATION: Foster, Jameyson,
Lohse, Roberts; MEDIA: Thompson; POETRY: Gough, Thistleton-Marun; PUBLISHING: Appleton, Mappin, Meldrum

Australian Aboriginal
Moloney, James, and Wayne Coolwell. "White Writing Black." Orana 30.2 (May 1994):
102-5. Moloney, author of Dougy, and Coolwell, an Aboriginal, discuss the problem of
white authors writing about Aboriginal people. J.D.A.

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See AUTHORS: Axel Poignant, Edel Wignell

Austria
For Renate Welsh, see CRITICS: Garrett

Belgium
Defourney, Michel. "Belgique francophone et littérature de jeunesse." La littérature de
jeunesse au croisement des cultures
. Ed. Jean Perrot and Pierre Bruno. Le Perreux: CRDP
de L'Académie de Créteil, 1993. 151-58. An overview of children's literature in French,
including comics, to the present. Excludes Flemish works. G.A.

Bolivia
de Bolívar, Gaby Vallejo. "Bolivia (II)." Bookbird 32.1 (Spring 1994): 44-47. Concludes an
article in Bookbird's Winter issue. Recent books of prose and poetry, including books by
Bolivian children. Notes that children's theater is almost completely absent, but that there are
2 successful juvenile magazines and children's supplements in the newspapers. G.A.

Bosnia
See AUTHORS: Josip Osti

Brazil
Pondé, Gloria. "Mutations au Brésil: la contribution au métissage pour la construction
d'une utopie." La littérature de jeunesse au croisement des cultures. Ed. Jean Perrot and
Pierre Bruno. Le Perreux: CRDP de L'Académie de Créteil, 1993...

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