Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• International Board on Books for Young People[Herausgeber]
• Coghlan, Valerie[Herausgeber]
• Freeman, Evelyn B[Herausgeber]

Titel

Bookbird : a flight through time

Ort / Verlag

Basel : Bookbird, Inc.

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Beiträge von Patricia Aldana, Therese Bigelow, Lucia Binder, Jeffrey Garrett, Joan Glazer, Roxane Harde, Meena Khorana, Barbara A. Lehmann, Jella Lepman, Catherine Kurkjian, Janelle Mathis, Petros Panaou, Siobhán Parkinson, Christiane Raabe, Lilia Ratcheva-Stratieva, Patricia L. Scharer, Peter Schneck, Björn Sundmark, Sylvia M. Vardell, Junko Yokota. – Gedichte (in Dänisch, Englisch, Deutsch, Niederländisch und Japanisch): Hans Christian Andersen, Eleanor Farjeon, James Krüss, Cecil Bødker, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Michio Mado. – Grußwort: Mingzhou Zhang
• Some key features of the book include: Foreword by Hans Christian Andersen Award recipient, Katherine Paterson.·- Five chronological sections: The Early Years, The Story Continues, New Beginnings, Into the 21st century, Still Flying High.·- Twenty-two articles by contributors from seven countries.·- An Overview and photomontage for each section.·- A poem by a Hans Christian Andersen recipient in English and the poem’s original language in each section.·- Archival photos of IBBY, Bookbird, and the International Youth Library throughout. - The history of Bookbird is intertwined with that of IBBY and the International Youth Library in Munich, all founded by the extraordinary Jella Lepman in the years following World War II
• This book documents a pictorial history of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, founded by Jella Lepman in 1957 in Germany. Bookbird is the official journal of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), also found by Lepman, with the secretariat located in Basel, Switzerland. She also established the International Youth Library in Munich. The journal is circulated to IBBY members in over 80 countries, in addition to other readers internationally. This edited volume discusses Bookbird within the context of IBBY and the International Youth Library. It includes contributions written by over 15 people from six different countries. Beloved award-winning author and Hans Christian Andersen Award recipient, Katherine Paterson, wrote the book's foreword.
• Bookbird: A Flight through Time captures in words and images the story of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, the official publication of the International Board on Books for Young People, from its beginning as a modest bulletin to an internationally acclaimed quarterly publication. Through the voices of many involved with Bookbird, this book tells the story of an important part of children’s literature in an international context over more than sixty years.
• Valerie Coghlan, who lives in Dublin, Ireland, is an independent researcher and lecturer in children's literature. She is former editor of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, current President of Bookbird, Inc., and has been involved with IBBY for many years. - Evelyn B. Freeman is professor emerita at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She is current president of the United States Section of the International Board on Books for Young People, a former editor of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, and past vice-president of IBBY.