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  • Edited and compiled by Christiane Rabe

    Translations by Nikola Von Merveldt

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Here you will find fascinating reviews of five new resource books including a look at the state of European children’s literature featured at a notable conference organized by the National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), a German study of the use of the fairy tale in comparing different South Slavic cultures, a narratological analysis (also from Germany) of forms and structures in books for children and young adults, a comprehensive examination of Slovak children’s literature from the Centre for Information on Literature (Literárne Informačné Centrum – LIC) in Slovakia, and a collection of seventeen essays by scholars from twelve countries at an international congress on picture books in Barcelona in 2007. [End Page 68]

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Christiane Rabe

Christiane Raabe is director of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek (International Youth Library) in Munich.

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