Bookbird contents 4 / 2009

Editorial

When children die in war; death in war literature for children and youth

by Milena Subrtová

Bringing books and children together: Croatian war experiences

by Ivanka Stricevic

Peace and peacemakers in books for children

by Ira Saxena

The war inside books

by Roberto Innocenti

What do we tell the children? War in the work of Roberto Innocenti

by Lindsay Myers

Her ways with pictures and words: an interview with Marie-Louise Gay

by S. Rebecca Leigh

Understanding the other: alterity in contemporary Greek fiction for young adults

by Vassiliki Lalagianni

Focus IBBY:

• Message from IBBY President 2009
• IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award 2010
• IBBY participation at book fairs
• 32nd IBBY Congress
• 60 years of International Youth Library

Postcards from Around the World

Books on Books

The Dubai Sonnet

by Ted van Lieshout (Netherlands)