In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editorial

Valerie Coghlan, Siobhán Parkinson
p. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0107
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Illustration beyond the Ordinary

Binette Schroeder, Siobhán Parkinson
pp. 5-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0042
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Postcards

Tanja Nathanael, Glenna Sloan, Jeffrey Brewster, Elizabeth Poe, Ciara Ní Bhroin
pp. 15-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0081
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Screams and Smiles: On Some Possible Human Universals in Children's Book Illustration

Jeffrey Garrett
pp. 16-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0054
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The Hans Christian Andersen Jury 2008: How it Worked

Zohreh Ghaeni
pp. 26-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0059
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Roberto Innocenti: HCA Illustrator Medallist 2008

Lindsay Myers
pp. 31-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0031
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Jürg Schubiger: HCA Author Medallist 2008

Elisabeth Stuck, Christine Lötscher
pp. 39-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0035
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The Big Picture

Viv Bird, Katherine Solomon
pp. 47-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0070
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The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for Illustration

Nurit Shilo-Cohen
pp. 53-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0047
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Books on Books

pp. 58-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0021
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El fuegos sagrado. Los escritores cubanos para niños se confiesan [The sacred fire. Cuban children's authors speak out] (review)

Jochen Weber
p. 59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0134
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L' univers de Roald Dahl [Roald Dahl's universe] (review)

Elena Kilian
pp. 59-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0135
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Van Arendsoog en Joop ter Heul. Oude kinderboeken over bakvissen, Hollandsche jongens, cowboys, kabouters en detectives [Of 'Arendsoog' and 'Joop ter Heul'. Old children's books about teenage girls, real Dutch boys, cowboys, gnomes and detectives] (review)

Toin Duijx
p. 60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0136
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Ent-Fernungen. Fremdwahrnehmung und Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945 [Alterity. Representations of the other and cultural transfer in German-language children's and young adult literature since 1945] (review)

Christa Stegemann
p. 61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0137
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Neue Impulse der Bilderbuchforschung. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Forschungsstelle Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 13.–15. September 2006 [New impulses in picturebook research. Conference of the Research Institute for Children's Literature at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 13–15 September 2006] (review)

Christiane Raabe
p. 62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0138
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Voracious Children. Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature (review)

Nikola von Merveldt
p. 63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0139
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Well-dressed Role Models. The Portrayal of Women in Biographies for Children (review)

Claudia Söffner
p. 63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0140
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IBBY Exhibition in Jakarta

Heidi Cortner Boiesen
pp. 64-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2009.0000
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Record Donation of Books for Earthquake-stricken Sichuan Province

Ma Weidong, Zhang Mingzhou
pp. 64-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2009.0001
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Focus IBBY

pp. 64-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.0.0108
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IBBY Celebrates Three New Honorary Members

p. 66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2009.0002
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