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Children’s Literature in Education 37.2 (June 2006)

Asian children’s literature seems to be a popular topic in the professional literature this year. The June 2006 issue of Children’s Literature in Education continues this trend:

• Asian North-American Children’s Literature About the Internment: Visualizing and Verbalizing the Traumatic Thing / Fu-jen Chen and Su-lin Yu
• Sense of Loss, Belonging, and Storytelling: An Anglo-Indian Narrator in The Borrowers / Ariko Kawabata
• The Pedagogy and Problems of Jane Andrews’s The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air (1861) / Laureen Tedesco
• Serial Monogamy: Extended Fictions and the Television Revolution / Margaret Mackey
• National Identity in a Multicultural Society: Malaysian Children’s Literature in English / Christina M. Desai
• Leap of Faith: An Interview with Max Velthuijs / Victoria de Rijke and Howard Hollands

Add comment July 28th, 2006

The Looking Glass 10.2 (Apr. 2006)

The April 2006 issue of The Looking Glass is a special issue on Japanese children’s literature. It contains the following articles:

• Japanese Picture Books / Jane and Bill McCullam of Cattermole Books
• “When the myth of life began our people shared life with humans, stone to earth, fire to water, trees to sky”: Multiplicity and Commonality in Hiromi Goto’s Water of Possibility / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
• “The Art of Emptiness”: Buddhist Nature in picture books of Miyazawa Kenji’s Donguri to Yamaneko (Wildcat and the Acorns) / Helen Kilpatrick
• Walking Along With Nature: A Psychological Interpretation of My Neighbor Totoro / Rieko Okuhara
• Analyzing Ideology in a Japanese Fairy Tale /Jane E. Kelley
• A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Illustrated Japanese Folktales / Yukiko Tosa
• Anne of Green Gables and Japan / M. Elizabeth DeBlois

There is also an article on Philip Pullman: Elaborately Wound: Philip Pullman’s Marlowean Muse / Lisa M. Miller

This issue was the one that I hoped to submit an article to but did not have time to draft something before the submission deadline. The articles that were submitted and selected are much better than anything I could have written, though.

Add comment May 15th, 2006

The Lion and the Unicorn 30.2 (Apr. 2006)

The April 2006 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn is a special issue on Asian American Children’s Literature edited by Dolores de Manuel and Rocío G. Davis. This issue features the following articles:

• Paying with Shadows / Laurence Yep
• The Cultural Production of Asian American Young Adults in the Novels of Marie G. Lee, An Na, and Doris Jones Yang / Monica Chiu
• Asian American Autobiography for Children: Critical Paradigms and Creative Practice / Rocío G. Davis
• “The sound of bamboo planted deep inside them:” Reclaiming Filipino American History and Identity in Lakas and the Manilatown Fish / Melinda L. De Jesus
• Writing Chinese America into Words and Images: Storytelling and Retelling of The Song of Mu Lan / Lan Dong
• Negotiated Identities and Female Personal Space in Thai American Adolescent Literature / Rahpee Thongthiraj
• Toward a Poetics of Asian American Fantasy: Laurence Yep’s Construction of a Bicultural Mythology / Celestine Woo

This issue also includes book reviews for the following books:

• Archetypes and motifs in folklore and literature: a handbook
• Dime novel in children’s literature
• Clever maids: the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales
• Brown gold: milestones of African American children’s picture books, 1845-2002
• Important books: children’s picture books as art and literature
• Elusive childhood: impossible representations in modern fiction

These articles are available online to Project Muse subscribers only. Check your local library for access to print or electronic copies.

Add comment May 15th, 2006

Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Winter 2006

Speaking of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota, the Winter 2006 issue of the Kerlan Collection Newsletter [PDF] is online.

Add comment January 6th, 2006

Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 30.2 (Fall 2005)

The fall 2005 issue of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, guest edited by Donnarae MacCann and Katharine Capshaw Smith, focuses on African and Caribbean children’s literature. Contents include:

• Children’s Literature after Apartheid: Examining ‘Hidden Histories’ of South Africa’s Past / Jochen Petzold
• Sowing the Seeds of Knowledge in Children’s Literature: Sociocultural Values in J.O. de Graft Hanson’s The Golden Oware Counters / Mahoumbah Klobah
• From Orature to Literature in Jamaican and Trinidadian Children’s Folk Traditions / Cynthia James
• The Diasporic Griot: James Berry and His Fiction for the Young / Mawuena Kossi Logan
• Splintered Families, Enduring Connections: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat / Katharine Capshaw Smith

A Project Muse subscription is required for online full-text access.

Add comment November 7th, 2005