Bologna: Fifty Years of Children’s Books from Around the World ed. by Giorgia Grilli

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-95
Author(s):  
Valerie Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
The World

Mapping the Topics and Evolutions of Chinese Children’s Bestsellers

Libri ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-317
Author(s):  
Jiming Hu ◽  
Xiang Zheng ◽  
Peng Wen ◽  
Jie Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Structure Evolution ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Correlation Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Source

AbstractChildren’s books involve a large number of topics. Research on them has been paid much attention to by both scholars and practitioners. However, the existing achievements do not focus on China, which is the fastest growing market for children’s books in the world. Studies using quantitative analysis are low in number, especially on the intellectual structure, evolution patterns, and development trends of topics of children’s bestsellers in China. Dangdang.com, the biggest Chinese online bookstore, was chosen as a data source to obtain children’s bestsellers, and topic words in them were extracted from brief introductions. With the aid of co-occurrence theory and tools of social network analysis and visualization, the distribution, correlation structures, and evolution patterns of topics were revealed and visualized. This study shows that topics of Chinese children’s bestsellers are broad and relatively concentrated, but their distribution is unbalanced. There are four distinguished topic communities (Living, Animal, World, and Child) in terms of centrality and maturity, and they all establish their individual systems and tend to be mature. The evolution of these communities tends to be stable with powerful continuity.

scholarly journals Black, White, Colourful, Gray: Visual Effects in the Children’s Book Mimi & Liza

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
Gabriella Petres Csizmadia
Keyword(s):  
Unique Feature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Visual World ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Abstract The study presents the reader with an intermedial interpretation of the storybook Mimi & Liza written by Katarína Kerekesová – Katarína Moláková – Alexandra Salmela (2013). The storybook follows the story of the friendship of two little girls, Mimi, who sees the world proliferating in mad colours, and the blind Liza, who is immersed in inner seeing. The two girls are presented as each other’s opposites through the semiotics of two counterpointing colour schemes. The analysis is based on Mitchell’s conception of media (Mitchell, 1994), that is, it sets out by acknowledging the intermedial state of the culture of children’s books, and then it follows the unfolding of the visual elements up through the investigation of expressive visual effects created by the text’s rhetoric. The visualization happening with the help of language is the condition of the common worldview of the blind and seeing characters as well as the guiding principle and goal of the volume; therefore besides the visual representation characteristic of children’s books, an emphasized role is given to the validation of the ekphrastic perspective in the analyzed work. The ekphrases of the text are presented as intermedial references (Rajewsky, 2010) based on Irina O. Rajewsky’s interpretation of intermediality. A unique feature of the interpretation is that the ekphrases of the volume read as sort of imaginary/imagination ekphrases which create the special, children’s book version of ekphrasis. It is characteristic for this imagination ekphrases that the order of the imaginary image and its linguistic description create an undecidable symbiosis. These images, however, can also be interpreted as inverted ekphrases, since they function not merely as descriptions of imagination ekphrases, but also as the visual world representations of linguistic imagination. Through several examples the study introduces and analyzes the mechanisms of the visualization happening with the help of language as well as the scenery painted with words.

Showing ‘what a woman has done’: the Beatrix Potter collections at the V&A

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Emma Laws
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Broad View ◽  
The World

A woman artist of wide-ranging interests, Beatrix Potter is less well-known for her activities in sheep farming, natural science and the preservation of the Lakeland countryside than for her much-loved children’s books, especially The tale of Peter Rabbit. But Potter scholars and enthusiasts can gain a broad view of her oeuvre at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, home to the internationally-acclaimed original collection of Leslie Linder, the first curator and collector of her work. The world-wide popularity of the material gives rise to some challenging conservation issues that the V&A, in close association with Frederick Warne, is working to resolve.

Little Wide-Awake: An Anthology of Victorian Children's Books and Periodicals, selected by Leonard de Vries. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967, 240 pp., $8.95

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-382
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Cone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
The World ◽  
De Vries ◽  
Wide Awake

Almost 40 years ago, Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, one of America's greatest bibliophiles, and himself an avid collector of children's books, wrote: "Children's books have such a many-sided appeal that they are strangely satisfying to the collector. Not only do they have as much scholarly and bibliographic interest as books in other fields, but more than any class of literature they reflect the minds of the generation that produced them. Hence no better guide to the history and development of any country can be found than its juvenile literatune."

To the lighthouse

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. S12-S13
Author(s):  
Judith Harries
Keyword(s):  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The World

Mr Grinling is probably one of the most famous lighthouse keepers in the world, brought to life by Ronda Armitage in her series of classic children's books. There are lots of ways to use them to explore peoples' occupations and life-styles.

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