Bookbird 4 / 2022

EDITORIAL

Bookbird’s Amazing Flight Continues
by Janelle Mathis and Petros Panaou | 1

Letter from Bookbird, Inc., President
by Valerie Coughlin | 3

FEATURED ARTICLES

Elementary Students Interpret Mordicai Gerstein’s Artwork in The Man Who Walked between the Towers
by Sylvia Pantaleo | 5

Crossroads between Nonfiction Books and Picturebooks: The Relevance of Designing the Information
by Ana Margarida Ramos and Diana Navas | 17

Dare to Dress: Cross-Dressing and Intercultural Shifts within an Israeli Literary Children’s Closet
by Erga Heller | 28

Aesthetic Entanglements in the Age of the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Reading of Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City
by Lorraine Kerslake | 38

Children’s Picturebooks, Epiphanies, and the 1914 Christmas Truce
by Martin Kerby, Marcus K. Harmes, and Margaret Baguley | 48

Frida Kahlo in Picturebooks: What Do Her Pictures Want?
by Danielle Terceiro | 58

CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS

Korean American Children’s Connections to Culturally Relevant Picturebooks
by Jongsun Wee | 67

Japanese Handmade Cloth Picturebooks for Children with Disabilities
by Hisako Kakuage | 74

LETTERS

The Boy in the Royal Box
by Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki and Meni Kanatsouli | 81

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH LIBRARY

The Whole World on One Page—Wimmelbooks: An International Perspective
by Ines Galling and Katja Wiebe, International Youth Library | 84

FOCUS IBBY
by Liz Page | 89

POSTCARDS
edited by Barbara Lehman | 4, 16, 37, 66, & 80