. . . were announced at the Bologna Children's Book Fair last week. Japanese author Nahoko Uehashi of Japan received the author award, while Roger Mello of Brazil received the honor for illustration. Uehashi is know for her Moribito books, which I'm happy to say are on our YA shelves. Roger Mello's work is proving much more elusive, but he's holding books in the photo, so I will keep looking for them! More information can be found in the IBBY Press Release: http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1368 and in the Publisher's Weekly announcement: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/61559-nahoko-uehashi-and-roger-mello-receive-2014-hans-christian-andersen-awards.html
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Move over Jane Austen, there is now another female author who will appear on currency. Hurrah for Astrid Lindgren and Sweden! http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/the-author-of-pippi-longstocking-will-appear-on-swedens-mone (and if you think Karlsson is underrated, you should try Ronia the Robber's Daughter, one of my all-time favorites! Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Why not enjoy some tales from ancient Ireland by a noted Irish storyteller? With gorgeous illustrations by an Irish illustrator? A few other books are also suggested on the Limerick O’Mahony’s bookstore site: http://www.omahonys.ie/catalog/spellbound-tales-of-enchantment-from-ancient-ireland-p-343334.html The shortlist for the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award was announced today! You can find it here: http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1367
Congrats to Jackie Woodson, representing the United States, on the author shortlist! And to two of my favorite illustrators, John Burningham (UK) and Eva Lindstrom (Sweden). I will be seeking out all of these authors and illustrators over the next few weeks . . . what a difficult choice to make! Have you checked out this years Outstanding International Books? You can find the 2014 list, compiled by USBBY members, with annotations in the February issue of School Library Journal: http://www.slj.com/2014/02/collection-development/passport-to-a-world-of-reading-usbbys-2014-outstanding-international-books-list-introduces-readers-to-the-global-community/ here are some real treasures here .. . so go explore the world . . . right from your bookshelf! Enjoy! Each year a different national section of IBBY sponsors International Children's Book Day on April 2. In 2014, Ireland is the sponsor. Below is a letter from Ireland's Children's Laureate Siobhan Parkinson, to the children of the world:
Readers often ask writers how it is that they write their stories – where do the ideas come from? From my imagination, the writer answers. Ah, yes, readers might say. But where is your imagination, and what is it made of, and has everyone got one? Well, says the writer, it is in my head, of course, and it is made of pictures and words and memories and traces of other stories and words and fragments of things and melodies and thoughts and faces and monsters and shapes and words and movements and words and waves and arabesques and landscapes and words and perfumes and feelings and colours and rhymes and little clicks and whooshes and tastes and bursts of energy and riddles and breezes and words. And it is all swirling around in there and singing and kaleidoscoping and floating and sitting and thinking and scratching its head. Of course everyone has an imagination: otherwise we wouldn’t be able to dream. Not everyone’s imagination has the same stuff in it, though. Cooks’ imaginations probably have mostly taste in them, and artists’ imaginations mostly colours and shapes. Writers’ imaginations, though, are mostly full of words. And for readers of and listeners to stories, their imaginations run on words too. The writer’s imagination works and spins and shapes ideas and sounds and voices and characters and events into a story, and the story is made of nothing but words, battalions of squiggles marching across the pages. Then along comes a reader and the squiggles come to life. They stay on the page, they still look like battalions, but they are also romping about in the reader’s imagination, and the reader is now shaping and spinning the words so that the story runs now inside his or her head, as it once did in the head of the writer. That is why the reader is just as important to the story as the writer. There is only one writer for each story, but there are hundreds or thousands or maybe even millions of readers, in the writer’s own language, or perhaps even translated into many languages. Without the writer the story would never be born; but without all the thousands of readers around the world, the story would not get to live all the lives it can live. Every reader of a story has something in common with every other reader of that story. Separately, and yet in a way also together, they have re-created the writer’s story in their own imagination: an act that is both private and public, individual and communal, intimate and international. It may well be what humans do best. Keep reading! Siobhán Parkinson Author, editor, translator and former Laureate na nÓg (Children’s Laureate of Ireland). Gobble You Up! is a folktale from the Rajasthan region of India. The art is by Sunita, who is from Datasooti village in Rajasthan. The artform is called Mandna and is practiced only by women, handed down from mother to daughter. A wonderful endnote explains this unusual and striking technique. The story is based on one that Sunita remembers her grandfather telling, in which a greedy jackal swallows one animal after another and brags about it in a repetitive refrain before getting his due in the end. The story was translated into English by Susheela Varadarajan and then put into rhyme by Gita Wolf. The rhyming text makes this story especially suited for reading aloud. The book is handmade,silkscreened on thick kraft paper with a distinctive smell, features that book lovers will appreciate. Published by Tara Books, 2013. Prague anyone (I've never been, but heard amazing things about this old world city)? or London, one of my favorite cities? You can visit with other librarians through these programs offered by University of North Caroline SILS in the summer of 2014. My bucket list just keeps growing!
Prague: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/prague London: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/london Check out this amazing opportunity to study international children's literature in Denmark through a Kent State course (online & then face to face in Denmark) led by Marianne Martens in June 2014.
https://www.kent.edu/slis/programs/mlis/international-childrens-literature-and-librarianship.cfm International Children's Book Day is April 2, 2014. This year's sponsoring country is Ireland, with the theme "Imagine Nations Through Story." Ideas and inspiration can be found at this site: http://internationalchildrensbookday.wordpress.com/ |
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