Bookbird 3 / 2026
Bookbird Vol. 64, No.3, 2026. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN WINNERS AND FINALISTS.
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Hans Christian Andersen Winners and Finalists | by Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang | I |
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Michael Rosen: A Critical Appreciation | by Kimberley Reynolds | 2 |
Michael Rosen at Eighty | by Charlotte Hacking | 5 |
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Cai Gao’s Picturebook Art: About Life, Innocence, and Tradition | by Fuling Deng | 9 |
“Tradition Is Fertile Soil, Not a Cage”: An Interview with Cai Gao | by Mingzhou Zhang | 14 |
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Autobiography or the Work of Memory? Traces of “Childness” in Ahmad Akbarpour’s Fiction. | by Bahar Eshraq | 17 |
Timothée de Fombelle: Popular Writer with Literary Bell | by Cécile Boulaire | 21 |
María Wernicke: “I Read Those Who Ignore Me and Those Who Take Me into Account” | by Agustina Palenque | 25 |
On Rosehips, Harmonicas, and Threads of Yarn: Time Binds and Unravelings in the Work of Pam Muñoz Ryan | by Angel Daniel Matos | 29 |
Beautifully Broken: Lee Geum-yi’s Imperfect World | by Kim Hyo-jung | 34 |
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When Colorism and Collage Marry Materiality and Naivety: Picturebook Auteur Linda Bondestam Revitalizes Nordic Picturebook Art | by Mia Österlund and Maria Lassén-Seger | 38 |
María José Ferrada and the Essence of Things | by Andrea Casals-Hill | 44 |
Between Text and Imagination: The Creative World of Gundega Muzikante | by Aiga Dzalbe |
Walid Taher: The Wandering Artist | by Yasmine Motawy | 53 |
The Materiality of Childhoods in Beatrice Alemagna’s Picturebooks | by Chiara Malpezzi | 58 |
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Welcoming the First Book: A Quiet Revolution in Nagekeo | by Sofie Dewayani | 62 |
Designing the Bite: Process Notes on Materiality, Typography, and Collective Reading in Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente | by Daniel Kondo | 66 |
| edited by Jutta Reusch—International Youth Library | 70 |
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