scholarly journals News & Announcements

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
News Announcements ◽  
The World ◽  
Submission Deadline ◽  
The Guardian

Michael Bond, Paddington creator passesIt is with sadness that we note the passing of Michael Bond, British author and creator of the Paddington Bear children’s books. Bond’s first book A Bear Called Paddington was first published in 1958 and told the story of a bear found at Paddington Station in London, that is then adopted by the Brown family. Paddington Brown, as he is later named, loves marmalade sandwiches, and always manages to get into some type of trouble despite best intentions. Paddington’s adventures continue to delight children around the world, and are representative of middle class life in London.Bond’s first book was followed by over twenty Paddington books, which have sold 35 million copies worldwide, and are translated into 41 languages. In 1972 a lady by the name of Shirley Clarkson made her children a stuffed Paddington toy that was soon in demand by other children. Clarkson eventually obtained a license to manufacture the toys and Paddington stuffed bears became the must-have souvenir when returning home from London. A number of television programs were produced over the decades, the first in 1975. In 2014 StudioCanal produced a film called Paddington, and another film about the lovable bear is being planned for late 2017. Bond’s Bear Called Paddington, with his little suitcase, button-down coat, hat, and Wellington boots has become a British icon known the world around. Bond, who wrote over 150 books in his lifetime, received the OBE in 1997 and the CBE in 2015. He passed away at the age of 91 on June 27, 2017.For further reading, both the New York TImes and The Guardian have obituary columns for Michael Bond. The paddington.com website also has a great resource of historical and biographical information on the Paddington books and Michael Bond.Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids Submissions The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is now accepting submissions for the spring 2018 edition of Best Books for Kids & Teens (BBKT), the CCBC’s semi-annual selection guide to the best Canadian children’s books, magazines, audio and video, which will be released in May 2018. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 6, 2017 For more information visit the CCBC website.

scholarly journals Intentional Diversity: Program Ideas from the Field

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Africa Hands
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Black People ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Opinion Piece

The year 2014 was a watershed one for bringing awareness to the issue of diversity in children’s literature. The late author Walter Dean Myers wrote a stirring opinion piece for the New York Times about the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s (CCBC) report revealing that of the thirty-two-hundred children’s books published in 2013, only ninety-three were about black people.

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.

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."

The Incipit of Beaches of Agnès (Les plages d’Agnès)

Post-cinema ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Moure
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Singular Form ◽  
French New Wave ◽  
The World ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
Agnes Varda ◽  
The Guardian

Agnès Varda’s recent death at 90 was received by various newspaper or site titles: “Influential French New Wave Filmmaker” (The New York Times), “Beloved French New Wave Director” (The Guardian). Paying tribute to Agnès Varda by analyzing Beaches of Agnès, her 2006 autobiographical film, José Moure draws attention to the fact that it has the singular form of a narrated puzzle from which (the film itself intermingled with its “making of”) a new kind of documentary emerges. (Dominique Chateau, in chapter 14, completes the tribute by considering Varda’s forays into the world of contemporary art.) Through her most recent films, as well as her exhibitions, Agnès Varda can be considered a major figure in post-cinema.

scholarly journals “THE COLLECTIVE LAPSE INTO DEMENTIA IS AN UNREMITTING SOURCE FOR THE ARTIST”

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Valery Nistratov ◽  
Ekaterina Maksimova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Moscow School ◽  
The Guardian

Valery Nistratov is a documentary photographer, one of the most famous representatives of Russian art-documentary photography working with “The New York Times”, “The Guardian”, “Newsweek”, “Le Monde”, and other media. He teaches at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. He is the author of the books “Risse im Patriarchat. Frauen in Afghanistan” (2003), “Forest-steppe” (2008), “Title Nation” (2011), and “Lost Horizon trilogy” (2017). In this issue of P&I Valery Nistratov talks about how the world of photography is penetrated by a new ethic, while Russian everyday life is imbued with a chthonic stuff. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova.

scholarly journals Illustrations in Children’s Educational Books in Russia in the Late 17th – Early 19th Centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Nina L. Panina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The aim of this article is to analyse the transition period in the history of illustrating children’s educational books on the material of Russian-language publications. It is the period in which the function of an intermedial representation gradually develops from emblematic to encyclopedic and narrative-figurative images. This process is related to the literary history of children’s books and their genre transformations. In the last third of the 18th century, children’s literature in Russia was formed as an independent direction with its special goals, and the basis for further search for specific methods of children’s book design, including educational ones, was laid. In the first quarter of the 19th century, the children’s book had a typical European visual design and continued the trends inherited from the 18th century: translations, borrowings, and revised texts in publications often copied illustrations rather than made new ones. A new stage came at the end of the 1820s, when Russia was actively developing independent children’s literature, and professional authors and criticism appeared. It was the time of the pedagogical experiments of Vasily Zhukovsky. This article does not claim to analyse Zhukovsky’s pedagogical activity comprehensively, but this activity is significant for the subject-matter of the study. In his pedagogy, Zhukovsky went to a new level when searching for intermedial ways of transmission of the universal coherence of phenomena, the systemic representation of knowledge about the world, and the ideas of the world as a system. The search, though much slower, was also observed in contemporary children’s books. The integration of cognitive and didactic functions in the Russian-language children’s book of the 18th century resulted in a mix of different principles of illustration in one publication. These principles are: (1) emblematic: the title, image, and text form a three-part structure; (2) encyclopedic: the sheet contains separate numbered images of the same type of objects excluded from the visual context; (3) narrative: the plot, expressive and figurative, including caricature, illustrations are readily used in an educational book due to their persuasiveness. Each of these principles has its own ways of displaying coherence. An encyclopedic illustration shows an object in a series of similar ones, in an enumeration, shows the structure of the object. An emblem gives its symbolic and allegorical interpretation. A narrative illustration shows its functions and its involvement in causal relations, depicting the environment of events and objects. The children’s book of the studied period tends to integrate all these ways. While the emblem as an independent intermedial genre degrades, certain elements of the emblematic tradition are actively borrowed by new forms of publications. The emblem gives the European book of modern times the most important intermedial tools for displaying universal coherence, the world as a system. The change of the epochs leads to an inevitable blurring of the meaning of the emblematic sign. The transitive nature of the analysed period is expressed in the search for a new intermedial form of coherence, similar to the lost emblematic bimediality of the text and illustration in terms of effectiveness. In the search for such a form, encyclopedic publications that claimed to be all-encompassing use the emblematic and narrative principles of illustration. In turn, the narrative illustration, driven by a similar desire for inclusiveness, consistency, and universality, absorbs the emblematic and encyclopedic principles.

scholarly journals News & Announcements

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Northern District ◽  
News Announcements ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Selection Of

Greetings Everyone! There are only a few news items for the fall issue: International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Announces  List of 100 Children’s Books in Arabic "Here is a selection of 100 children’s books in Arabic published in various countries of the Arab world. This selection reflects the dynamism of a sector that has truly taken off in the past twenty years, with the publication of a wide range of titles whose quality is often recognised by international awards."Finalists Announced for the 2017 Canadian Children’s Book Centre AwardsThe CCBC has announced the finalists in for their annual book awards. This includes the $30,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. See the CCBC website for a full list of finalists."So you want to get Published?" SeminarThe Canadian Children's Book Centre is hosting a seminar for aspiring children's book authors on November 4, 2017 at 10:00 AM at the Northern District Library in Toronto, ON.  Details are found on the CCBC website.Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable (VCLR) The VCLR, announced the 2017 Information Book Award Shortlist. The shortlist can be found on the VCLR webiste. The winner will be announced in November 2017.Wishing you bright fall days!Hanne Pearce - Communications Editor

scholarly journals Books for People Who Don’t Read

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Desmarais
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Adult Readers ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Opposite Trend ◽  
Access To Books

Dear Readers,When I spotted Alexandra Alter’s article “James Patterson Has a Big Plan for Small Books” in The New York Times on March 21, 2016, I immediately thought the story was about a new innovation that Patterson had introduced for small format children’s books. Instead, the article describes Patterson’s new line of short novels aptly named BookShots that will include thrillers, mysteries, romances, science fiction, and (eventually) nonfiction. While most people recognize Patterson’s name for his prodigious output of thrillers, he is also known for publishing nearly 50 children’s books, which have sold more than 36 million copies worldwide. He has also written popular mysteries, romances, and young adult novels, but he now has plans to write for adult readers who don’t normally make time for reading. Indeed, the BookShots home page advises prospective customers that “Life moves fast—books should too”.While I have no objection to Patterson’s new line of short, cheaply produced books that may eventually be stocked next to magazines and candies in grocery stores, I do hope that publishers of children's books will embrace an opposite trend by publishing longer books for young readers who do have time to read. Let’s not assume that all children are abandoning reading for movies, television, video games, and social networking.The strengths of Patterson’s new books are their lively, incisive writing, and of course, engaging plots that pack a great deal into few words. Brevity will certainly lend Patterson’s new books a narrative crispness that will appeal to readers who may already enjoy reading digital content on their mobile devices. There is nothing wrong with having an appetite for short fiction, but young readers will surely benefit from having access to books that encourage deeper, slow reading.Our summer issue is filled with recommended books that can be read deeply and re-read, so let’s encourage young readers to take time to more fully comprehend and appreciate words, ideas, and stories.Happy reading!Robert Desmarais Managing Editor

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