A Journal of International Children's Literature
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature (ISSN 0006 7377) is a refereed journal published quarterly by IBBY.
The editor, Roxanne Harde, works in cooperation with an international Editorial Review Board, guest reviewers and correspondents who are nominated by IBBY National Sections.
Bookbird aims to communicate new ideas to the whole community of readers interested in children's books.
Bookbird is open to any topic in the field of international children's literature. The editor will also include themed issues and will post calls for manuscripts on the IBBY website. Bookbird will include News of IBBY projects and events that are highlighted in the Focus IBBY column.Bookbird is open to any topic in the field of international children's literature. The editor will also include themed issues and will post calls for manuscripts on the IBBY website. Bookbird will include News of IBBY projects and events that are highlighted in the Focus IBBY column.
Other regular features include coverage of children's literature studies and
children's literature awards around the world. Bookbird also pays special
attention to reading promotion projects worldwide.
Bookbird back issues
All back issues of Bookbird from 1963 to 2008 are available to download from the IBBY Archives at ALO. Click here to explore over forty years of our journal.
All issues 2008 to 3/2010 are available by subscription through Project Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bookbird/
Contents of issues 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Call for Papers: ‘Children’s Literature from the Commonwealth of Nations’Submissions are invited for a Special Issue of Bookbird in conjunction with the Commonwealth Education Trust (CET). The CET has promoted education, literacy and literature throughout the member states of the Commonwealth of Nations for 125 years. Their work has much in common with IBBY. Papers are invited on the literatures of Commonwealth countries, as well as on literacy education, the development of the imagination and critical thinking through reading, and other practical uses of literature. Papers of 4000 words are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
· National identity in literature for children and teens
· Literacy programmes which incorporate children’s literature
· Thematic developments in national literatures
· Indigenous and diasporic literatures for children
· Multilingual children’s literature
· The impact of colonization and/or Empire on national literatures for
children
· The oral tradition and/or literary retellings
· Trends in illustration techniques
· Prizes for children’s literature
· Non-fiction publishing for children and teens
Titles and abstracts of 250 words should be sent to the editor by 15th May 2012. Roxanne Harde rharde@ualberta.ca
The full papers will be expected by 30th June 2012. Please see Bookbird’s website at www.ibby.org/bookbird for full submission details.
In addition, short reviews of recently published children’s literature (c.a. 300 words) or of research on children’s literature (c.a. 750 words) are warmly welcomed.
Papers which are not accepted for this issue will be considered for later issues of Bookbird.
Special Spanish IssueA special issue of Bookbird has been released in time for the IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela. Issue 3/2010 has been translated into the languages of Spain and each article is available to download as a pdf from the website.
This is a very exciting innovation and we warmly thank the editors and translators for their work.
Special Issues
Japanese translation of published Bookbird issues
Subscription
SubmissionsBookbird Inc. is happy to welcome Dr. Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta, Canada as Bookbird Editor for the term 2012-2014.
From this day forward all submissions will be kindly made to:
Roxanne Harde Email: rharde@ualberta.ca
Submission guidelines
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Bookbird Editorial Office Dr Roxanne Harde
Associate Dean (Research)
Associate Professor of English
University of Alberta
Augustana Faculty
4901 - 46 Avenue, Camrose, Alberta
T4V 2R3
Canada
E-mail: rharde@ualberta.ca
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