Bookbird 1 / 2026

Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, Vol. 64, No. 1, 2026

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EDITORIAL

 

Crime in Children’s Literature: Playing, Breaking, and Restoring the Rules

by  Vera Veldhuizen and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang | I


FEATURED ARTICLES

 

The Idea of (Dis)Order in the Keys: White-Collar Crime in Mid-Twentieth-Century Florida Children’s Literature

by Noah D. Mullens | 3

A Crime Not Committed: The Motif of Slander in Some Folktale Adaptations of Armenian Children’s Literature

by Nvard Vardanyan and Lusine Hayriyan | 11

When Morality Masks Law: Exploring Crime and Justice in Malayalam Children’s Literature . through Mayavi Comics

by Sanjay Mohan N M and Jibhi Bhaskaran | 19

The Problem with Reading Clues: Identifying the Dyslexic Detective in Children’s and Young Adult Mysteries

by Elizabeth Leach-Leung | 29

Child Detectives and Ghosts: Unearthing Difficult Realities in Children’s Occult Crime Fiction

by Sietse W. Hagen | 39

Resilient and Fearless: Picturebook Biographies about Chinese American Women

by Jongsun Wee, Sohyun Meacham, and Sunah Chung | 47


LETTERS

 

Children of the Stone City: An Interview with Beverley Naidoo

by Julia Hope | 58

A Letter from the Banned Books Network Münster

byJennifer Gouck, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Sarah Pyke, and Silvia Schultermandl | 61

Armin Greder’s Books and Social Injustices

by Jessica Paolillo | 65


BOOKS ON BOOKS


edited by Jutta Reusch—International Youth Library | 69


FOCUS IBBY


by Carolina Ballester | 79


POSTCARDS


edited by Siobhán Parkinson | ii, 27, 28, 57, 60, 64, 67, 68, 78, & 85