Book reviewsThe Dawn Chorus Written by Suzanne Barton Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books ISBN: 9781408839210 Cost: £10.99Octopus's Garden Written by Ringo Starr, illustrated by Ben Cort Published by Simon & Schuster Children's Books ISBN: 978147120077 Cost: £9.99The Prince and the Potty Written by Nicholas Allan Published by Red Fox Picture Books ISBN: 9781782952578 Cost: £5.24

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (164) ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
Vivien Hamshire
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Red Fox ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Dawn Chorus ◽  
Ringo Starr

scholarly journals Till ”vildingarnas” land: Barnboksförfattaren besöker förorten

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maj Asplund Carlsson ◽  
Johannes Lunneblad
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Post Colonial

Title: Where “the wild things” are: An author of children’s books on a visit to the suburbsAbstract:Few studies have been carried out on children’s literature from a post-colonial perspective. In this article, we look closer at four picture books recently published in Sweden with the purpose of giving children from urban areas patterns of identification. The aim of our study is to see how the ‘suburb’ is articulated as a multi-accented sign. Three themes are elaborated in our analysis, i.e. loneliness and alienation, drug abuse and misery as well as small business occurrence. We also discuss the consequences for children in early years of an encounter with a distorted or alienated view of suburban culture.

scholarly journals The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Tuscany

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Level Of Understanding

The volume publishes some essays illustrating experiences which attempted to promote reading with very young children in nurseries and infant schools, as part of a project on the picture books by Eric Carle, a well-known American illustrator of children's books. In particular, this initiative took place during the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years, in a large number of nurseries and infant schools in some areas of Tuscany (Pistoia, Firenze, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Viareggio, and the Empolese area). The main aim of the project, carried out as action-research, was to present the books of Eric Carle and investigate the level of understanding of the stories proposed by the famous illustrator. The specific goal of the project was to introduce teachers, educators, librarians and parents to the picture books written and illustrated by Eric Carle and translated into Italian.

scholarly journals “Bestimmt wird alles gut”: Journeys and Arrivals in Contemporary German Children’s Books

2021 ◽  
pp. 357-373
Author(s):  
Anneli Fjordevik
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
World War ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
The Right

In the last few years, many people from war-torn countries have left home to seek safety in distant countries. Refugees have come to Europe to an extent that has not been seen since World War II. It is estimated that around 50% of the refugees are children under eighteen and many of them have ended up in Germany. The fact that many people leave their homes and become foreigners in new countries is also noticeable in literature. In recent years, an increasing number of books on this topic have been published, not least children’s books. This chapter considers how escape from war and the arrival situation are depicted in eight picture books published 2016-2017 in German. My focus is on whether the fact that the families have to escape to a foreign country is problematised in any way: How do the children (and their families) in the books deal with the new language and with communication? Are there any difficulties concerning identity and “otherness”? What expectations/reflections (such as whether or not they made the right decision) on the new life – if any – are being related? How does the stress affect them and their families? And do the stories about leaving home and arriving in a foreign place have entirely happy endings?

The Odessa Years: Shoshana Persitz and the Gamliel Library of Omanut Press (1918-1920)

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-99
Author(s):  
Ann Brener
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Cultural Renaissance ◽  
Hebrew Language ◽  
The Creation ◽  
First Time

Shoshana Zlatopolsky Persitz (1893-1969) was only 24-years old when she founded Omanut Press in Moscow, 1917, during that brief but heady period of Jewish cultural renaissance following the February Revolution. The daughter of one of the wealthiest Jews in Russia, Shoshana originally created Omanut as a means of bringing world literature into the treasury of the Hebrew language, but when her four-year-old son Gamliel died, she introduced a series of picture-books for children named the “Gamliel Library” after her son. Forced to move several times over the course of the next few years, from Moscow to Odessa and from Odessa to Frankfurt am Main, Shoshana nevertheless succeeded in producing some of the most beautiful children’s books ever printed in Hebrew. But up till now, scholars have been unsure of where, exactly, the books were first printed: in Odessa sometime around 1918 – or in Frankfurt am Main several years later? Now, thanks to books newly discovered in the Library of Congress, we are able to say that at least six of the picture-books were in fact published for the first time in Odessa. This article focuses on the creation of these beautiful books and the story behind their publication.

scholarly journals Best Children's Picture Books from Abroad: Valuing Other Cultures

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Maureen White
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
The Past ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Caldecott Award ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Universal Themes

Translated children’s books can play an important role in helping children develop an understanding of other people. Outstanding picture books in this specialized genre affirm the fact that each person is unique, but there are universal themes and feelings that every person possesses, regardless of culture or language. A comparison of the past six years of Caldecott Award Winners and outstanding translated children’s books provides insights into their similarities and differences. While the Caldecott books all seem to be big, bright, and beautiful, the translated picture books selected for study seem to be diverse in style, medium, and bookmanship.

Textual functions of metonymies in Anthony Browne’s picture books: A multimodal approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arsenio Jesús Moya-Guijarro
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
To Come

Abstract The main aim of this article is to study the communicative functions of visual metonymies in a sample of picture books written and illustrated by Anthony Browne, an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books. The three tales selected for analysis are Voices in the Park, Gorilla and Piggybook, all of which have been highly praised by critics and become universally accepted as classics. Within the frameworks of visual social semiotics and cognitive linguistics, the strategies available to the illustrator to represent characters in picture books have been identified and analysed in the contexts where they were produced. The results of the analysis show that visual metonymies are used in Browne’s picture books essentially to highlight or minimize a character’s status over another fictional actor, to ascribe negative qualities or attitudes to the main characters and, in turn, to foreshadow what is yet to come in the story.

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2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Emotional Literacy ◽  
Forest School ◽  
Social And Emotional

scholarly journals Current Portrayal of Character Education in Indonesian Children’s Books

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 932
Author(s):  
Desi Yoanita ◽  
Kartika B. Primasanti
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Research Studies

Research studies in the western context indicated that the authors and illustrators have shown effort to depict character education effectively through children’s picture books. Conversely, in Indonesia, only few research studies regarding character education. A study was focused on how to use the books to promote character education. Another research was examining the types of moral values. None of the existed studies investigated approach to depict character education in Indonesia children’s picture books. Using semiotic method, this study indicated that among all significant components of portraying character education, the children’s books missed the two pivotal components, which are visual imagery and semiotic components.

scholarly journals Representation and the Portrayal of Elders’ Characters in Ethiopian Children’s Books: Policy Implication

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Dereje Mekonnen ◽  
Bonsa Shume ◽  
Dessalegn Garuma
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Policy Implication ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Content Analyses

The objective of this study was to investigate the Representation and the Portrayal of Elders’ Characters in Ethiopian Children’s Books. To achieve this intention, three different publishers were purposively taken, Mega Enterprise, Aster Nega, and Royal, for the books do have large sellers for children’s present day in Ethiopia. Therefore, 38 different books were gathered from selected independent bookstores and taken from wholesalers along availability sampling technique. A coding sheet was utilized to assist in recording data. The information used to establish this recording aid was adapted from Robinson and Anderson’s (2006) content analyses on older characters. The gathered data under the help of three oriented experts were coded and statistically analyzed (using frequency and percentage). Thus, the study found that the elders’ character mostly appeared in children’s picture books. Further, the most of the elders’ characteristics were found to be positive in nature in the sample picture books. In addition to this, both physical and social basis characteristics of elders were found to be represented and portrayed in Ethiopian children’s picture books. Based on these results, it has been concluded that Ethiopian children’s picture books represented and portrayed elders’ characteristics prevalently and positively which in turn indicates the good and acceptable place that elders do have in Ethiopian children’s picture books. However, this study found that the characteristics of the books that represented and portrayed undermined the additional characteristic of elders with special needs. Further, the characters that presented and portrayed in those picture books may not yet included in to academic textbooks of students. Therefore, it has been recommended that the publishers, the educational experts, and the readers as well as the researchers should enforce the concerned bodies to include the elderly characteristics of individuals with special needs (particularly of those with disabilities) in to the readable picture books and should evaluate the contents of academic textbooks.

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