scholarly journals The Day You Begin by J. Woodson

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Ford
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
The Face ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Human Connection

Woodson, Jacqueline. The Day You Begin. Illustrated by Rafael López, Penguin Random House, 2018. Inspired by a poem in her award-winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, the Brooklyn based author Jacqueline Woodson wrote The Day You Begin about the moments in a child’s life when s/he feels like an outsider.  Throughout the pages, the reader goes on a journey through the eyes of various children and their experiences feeling like outsiders. The children discover that the moment you bravely reach out you will find that “every new friend has something a little like you—and something else so fabulously not quite like you at all.” Written in beautifully poetic text that is perfectly portrayed through the illustrations, this picture book speaks of hope and human connection in the face of fear, a concept easily connected to by all.  Rafael Lopez creates beautiful illustrations to inspire imagination and conjure up the precious richness of our differences. Pages filled with vibrant images of flowers and nature are used to represent the child’s unique qualities spoken of in the text. In contrast, dull colours and minimal images express feelings of difference.  The highly relatable experience of trying to measure up is illustrated on some of the pages through the presence of a ruler. Adults and children of all ages will be able to connect in some way with the characters on the page. Overall, this is a beautifully written book that can be used to discuss the vibrancy we can find in our communities when we cherish our differences and share of ourselves, if only we would begin.  Highly Recommended:  4 out of 4 starsReviewer:  Danielle Ford Danielle is an avid reader of all kinds of books. Currently in her last semester of her Bachelor of Education as an Elementary Generalist, she is looking forward to bringing rich children’s literature into her classroom.

scholarly journals Much Bigger Than a Hamburger: Disrupting Problematic Picturebook Depictions of the Civil Rights Movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez ◽  
Amanda Vickery
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
The Face

While more diverse children's literature about youth activism is available than ever before, popular picturebooks often perpetuate problematic tropes about the Civil Rights Movement. In this article, we conduct a critical content analysis of the award-winning picturebook The Youngest Marcher and contrast the book's content to a critical race counterstory of the Movement focused on the collective struggle for justice in the face of racial violence. We argue for the need to engage students in civic media literacy through a critical race lens and offer ways to nuance the limited narratives often found in children's literature.

scholarly journals News and Announcements

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Native American ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Golf Club ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Book Award

Happy fall and early winter everyone! It seems most of the book festivals and meetings have passed for the year but there are certainly award announcements worth noting. TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards Town Is by the Sea, written by Joanne Schwartz and illustrated by Sydney Smith, won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award ($50,000) When the Moon Comes, written by Paul Harbridge and illustrated by Matt James, won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award ($20,000) #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale, won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction ($10,000) The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People ($5,000) The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook won the John Spray Mystery Award ($5,000) The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline won the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award ($5,000) Young readers were asked to pick their favourite book from the shortlisted TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards titles in an online poll. This year, Barbara Reid took home the $5,000 award for Picture the Sky. 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award Winners Announced Young people’s literature — text (English): Sweep by Jonathan Auxier Young people’s literature — illustrated books (English): They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki Young people’s literature — text (French): Le chemin de la montagne by Marianne Dubuc See full list of Governor General Literary Award winners here: https://ggbooks.ca/#finalists Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable (VCLR) is hosting an event to celebrate Award-Winning BC Children’s Authors and Illustrators 2019January 30, 2019, 7 – 9 pm UBC Golf Club - see the website for more details I will leave you with a nice summary of the best illustrated children’s books of 2018 selected by The New York Times.

scholarly journals The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-257
Author(s):  
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Biological Entities ◽  
Children's Fiction

This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal are seen not as psycho-biological entities nor as products of social constructivism nor as categories that must be seen as inclusive of variety, but as memories, where memory is understood in the psychoanalytic sense as a present production of a past, including ‘observation’ as remembered. The implications of the arguments are demonstrated in relation to readings of Jessica Love's award-winning picture book Julián is a Mermaid (2018) as well as several reviews of the text in relation specifically to ideas of (trans) sexuality, gender, childhood, ethnicity and mermaids. Key here is what is understood to be the shared interest of psychoanalysis and deconstructive thinking in not stabilising definitions but instead in reading them as shifting in perspective.

»Iz an Freuenschuh! An mirobelli Freuenschuh!«

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Ben Wilhelmy
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Comparative Examination ◽  
Special Case

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Carson Ellis’ Bilderbuch Du Iz Tak? (2016) stellt eine besondere Herausforderung der Bilderbuchübersetzung dar, da der Schrifttext ausschließlich in einer fiktiven Sprache verfasst ist. Eine Übersetzung erscheint damit zwar auf den ersten Blick überflüssig. Eine nähere Untersuchung des Ausgangstextes legt jedoch vielfaltige intermodale, inter- und intralinguale Bezuge frei, die einerseits ein Feld der Polyvalenz entfalten und die Übersetzung erschweren, andererseits eine Übersetzung unumgänglich machen.   »Iz an Freuenschuh! An mirobelli Freuenschuh!«The Fictional Language in Carson Ellis’s Du Iz Tak? as a Field of Polyvalence and a Touchstone of Picturebook Translation Carson Ellis’s award-winning picture book Du Iz Tak? is a special case of picturebook translation since the original text is written in an invented language. The comparative examination of the original and selected translations (German and Dutch) exposes the latent limits of picturebook translation. The written text in Du Iz Tak? consists exclusively of the direct speech of anthropomorphic insects. Reception of the work involves searching for clues in order to acquire the bug language. It is remarkable that, despite the invented nature of the bug language, different language editions of the work have been produced. Comments by the author and the publisher point out that the translation of the work was considered inevitable at an early stage, but it also represented a great challenge. The following two questions will be pursued in this article: Which intermodal interrelations within the original text determine the necessity of language-specific translations of Du Iz Tak? To what extent do the translations differ in their approach to this challenge? The semiosis of the bug language in Du Iz Tak? that demands translation is examined and the polyvalence of the text is discussed. A comparison of the original text with the two translations shows the translational shifts that are brought about by the notion of the single address in children’s literature. This article reveals the limits of transferability of this specific book as well as the general challenges of picturebook translation.

Analysis of Latino award winning children’s literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 507-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Gomm ◽  
Melissa Allen Heath ◽  
Pat Mora
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Award Winning

In this article, we offer information about the specific challenges US Latino immigrant children face. We then determine which of these challenges are included in 72 award winning children’s picture books, specifically created for and/or about Latino children. Our analysis offers information to assist school-based mental health professionals, children’s librarians, educators, and parents in prescriptively selecting books that align with Latino children’s social emotional needs. Additionally, we analysed each book’s proportion of Spanish/English text and described the book’s targeted age level and Horn Book Guide rating. From our perspective, books containing colorful illustrations that include Latino children, realistic situations, familiar Spanish words and phrases, and true-to-life characters help Latino children engage and identify with these stories. Children’s book author Pat Mora also explains her perceptions of quality children’s literature. Although this article is specific to Latino children’s literature, implications are offered that generalize to other ethnic and cultural groups that are typically underrepresented in children’s literature.

scholarly journals Hidden Children: Using Children's Literature to Develop Understanding and Empathy Toward Children of Incarcerated Parents

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-121
Author(s):  
Val Plett Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children Of Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Incarcerated Parents

Abstract Research indicates that children whose parents are incarcerated are a vulnerable group of people with poor life outcomes. Yet these children are not tracked in the Canadian system, making it difficult for schools to respond with appropriate supports. How can schools be inclusive to this hidden demographic of children? Framed in theories of Critical Literacy and Ethic of Care, the author proposes the use of story to develop understanding and empathy. Research shows that acknowledging these children’s experiences through story helps them to feel validated while broadening capacity for empathy among other children. Can a story develop empathy toward children of incarcerated parents? To answer this question, the author wrote a picture book about a child who visits her mother in jail, and read the story to three groups of children, interspersed and followed by rich discussions. The story elicited empathetic responses from all students, suggesting the benefits of this approach.

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