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Mikayla Sharpless
Mar 29, 20225 min read
Tracing the Role of the Empathetic Imagination in Trauma Recovery Using International Picture Books
In J. Roger Kurtz’s 2013 piece on the African moral imagination [1], he calls for a more cross-cultural understanding of trauma within...


Åse Marie Ommundsen, Gunnar Haaland, and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Oct 12, 20216 min read
Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education
What should students read? The choice of texts in the classroom has important pedagogical implications for both novice and experienced...


Tanja Nathanael
Oct 20, 20207 min read
An Interview with Albertine, 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award winner
Albertine Zullo, known professionally as Albertine, has been granted the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2020. The Hans...


Perry Nodelman
Jul 16, 20197 min read
My Chinese Words: Part 3
This post is the final post of a three part series in which Perry Nodelman discusses the Chinese translation of his seminal text Words...


Perry Nodelman
Jul 9, 20195 min read
My Chinese Words: Part 2
This post is part two of a three part series in which Perry Nodelman discusses the Chinese translation of his seminal text Words about...


Perry Nodelman
Jul 2, 20197 min read
My Chinese Words: Part 1
I wrote this book: I wrote it—but I can’t read it. What I can read is the book it is a translation of: Seeing this new translation gave...


René Fleischbein
Mar 5, 20194 min read
Embracing and Celebrating Difference in Janosch’s Tiger and Bear Books
EDITED: I have updated the language of this post after a few comments made me aware that the words “tolerance” and “lifestyle” are...

Olivia Bushardt
Jan 29, 20194 min read
An Interview with Author/Illustrator Qian Shi
Fresh off the publication of her debut picture book The Weaver, Qian Shi joins us for an interview about the creative process, her...


Melissa Terras
Oct 23, 20184 min read
Academia and Children’s Literature: Analysing expertise in Picture-Books
How is academia represented in children’s literature? In the spring of 2012 I began to ponder that question, coming across various...
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