In this Issue

Table of Contents

Death and the Empathic Embrace in Four Contemporary Picture Books

Lesley Clement
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0018
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Picturing Difference: Three Recent Picture Books Portray the Black Nova Scotian Community

Vivian Howard
pp. 11-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0022
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Images of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Class Struggle in Communist Albanian Children's Literature and Media

Enkelena Shockett Qafleshi
pp. 21-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0002
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Exploring the Text/Image Wilderness: Ironic Visual Perspective and Critical Thinking in George O'Connor's Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country

William Boerman-Cornell
pp. 29-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0006
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Teacher Authored Supplementary Reading Materials in South Africa

Misty Sailors, Miriam Martinez, Lorena Villareal
pp. 35-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0009
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Immigrants and Immigration in Portuguese Children's Literature

Maria da Conceição Tomé, Glória Bastos
pp. 47-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0012
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The School as Mediator when Constituting the Family of Readers

Yara Maria Miguel
pp. 57-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0016
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Wadadli Pen and Young Writers in the Caribbean

Joanne C. Hillhouse
pp. 63-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0020
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The Challenge: A Reader-Centered Programme for Young Adults in Vocational Colleges

Fieke Van der Gucht
pp. 68-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0000
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The IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People: A Short Overview

Heidi Boiesen
pp. 74-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0004
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"To Hand out the Stars": Jane Langton's Fiction for Children

Crystal Hurdle
pp. 79-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0008
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Setting up a Research Collection (With No Budget)

Rachel Johnson
pp. 83-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0011
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Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms by Sara Schwebel (review)

Rebecca Berger
pp. 86-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0015
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Suspended Animation: Children's Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Nathalie op de Beeck (review)

Valerie Coghlan
pp. 88-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0019
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De Tintin au Congo à Odilon Verjus: le missionnaire, héros de la BD Belge [Tintin from Congo to Odilon Verjus: the Missionary, Hero of the Belgian comics] by Philippe Delisle (review)

Soizik Jouin, Hasmig Chahinian
pp. 91-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0023
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Bande dessinée franco-belge et imaginaire colonial : des années 1930 aux années 1980 [Franco-Belgian Comics and Colonial Imagination: From the 1930s to the 1980s] by Philippe Delisle (review)

Soizik Jouin, Hasmig Chahinian
pp. 92-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0003
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The Nation in Children's Literature: Nations of Childhood ed. by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark (review)

Erin Spring
pp. 93-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0007
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Children's Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation by Rebecca Knuth (review)

Vanessa Warne
pp. 95-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0010
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Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque by Cherie Allan (review)

Valerie Coghlan
pp. 97-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0013
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Les Enfants de Mussolini : littérature, livres, lectures d'enfance et de jeunesse sous le fascisme : de la Grande Guerre à la chute du régime [Mussolini's Children: literature, books, childhood and teenage years' readings under Fascism: from the Great War to the fall of the regime] by Mariella Colin (review)

Lise Chapuis, Marine Planche
pp. 99-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0017
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IYL News: Joke van Leeuwen Wins the First James Krüss Award

Christiane Raabe
pp. 102-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0021
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Focus IBBY

Elizabeth Page
pp. 105-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0001
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Postcards

Deena Hinshaw, Sylvia Vardell, Doris Audet, Natalie M. Van Deusen, Bahar Eshragh, Melissa Garavini, Tulin Kozikoglu, Linda Dütsch
pp. iv-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0005
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Editorial

Roxanne Harde
pp. v-vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0014
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