Bookbird contents 1 / 2010
Editorial
Forty days of mourning
by Ibtisam Brarakat
The Arab World in Children's Books: Finding Palestine
by Elsa Marston
A Chat with Ibtisam Barakat
by Elsa Marston with Ibtisam Barakat
Children of Palestine Tell their Stories
by Jehan Helou
Face to Face: Self and other in Israeli children's literature
by Celina Maschiach
Charles Perraults' "Le Petit Poucet" and its possible Arabic Influences
by Ahmed K. Al-Rawi
Fantasy as Philosophy in Children's Literature: The Multicultural Landscape of The Clockwork Forest
By Kate McNally
Memories of Meeting Worlds or Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
The 2009 Dorothy Briley Lecture given by Carmen Diana Dearden
Profile of Ted van Lieshout
by Toin Duijx
Focus IBBY
· International Children's Book Day 2010
· IBBY: How it all began. Part 1 of a series of the history of IBBY
· In memoriam: Sergei Mikhalkov, 1913-2009
· 32nd IBBY Congress, Santiago de Compostela 8-12 September 2010
Postcards from around the World
Books on Books
Poem: Palestine by Ibtisam Barakat