Dear Sandie,



I am finding this discussion fascinating and thrilled that we now have such a lively picturebook discussion forum.



As well as discussing terminology, I was wondering if any colleagues have the opportunity to use books from a variety of cultures (and languages) in their teaching and how they use them. In the early 1990s I was fortunate to receive some EC funding to develop this concept which resulted in the European Picture Book Collection ( www.ncrcl.ac.uk/epbc ) and later the European School Education Training course ( www.ncrcl.ac.uk/eset ). In 2009 a second EPBC was created (www.epbcii.org ) and, more recently, a New Zealand picturebook collection ( http://www.picturebooks.co.nz ) collection as well as a Pacific picturebook collection  ( http://www.pacificpicturebooks.co.nz  ). I believe that IBBY Italy are also considering creating a world wordless picturebook collection, but I wondered if there are any other initiatives hiding away somewhere!



Many thanks,



Penni





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Can't add as much as I'd like to this conversation but some Scandinavian friends tell me:



In Norwegian: "Bildebok; as in picturebook... However you would think of books for children. Books for other agegroups would be illustrated books..."



In Swedish: " "Bilderbok" in Swedish would be probably preschool age, up to five-six. It would be a book with little text and focus on pictures. For adults...hm...depends on the pictures and what they are telling."



All best wishes,



Zoe



On 05/11/12 11:54, Salisbury, Martin wrote:

Dear Sandie and everyone,



I would really love to hear some more examples of terminology in other languages for what we call the picturebook, and to what extent it is separately defined in relation to the illustrated book. For us, the picturebook is something which relies wholly or partly on images to convey its meaning, as distinct from a book where the text would still make sense without pictures. I am trying to write a piece on picturebooks for the 50th Bologna Book Fair but am never sure to what extent the concept is universal.



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From: Sandie Mourão <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>

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Subject: Picturebook - how does the concept come across in other languages?



Dear all,



I'm wondering if my message highlighting the multilingual side of this list has made subscribers rather shy.  I hope not! The 140th subscriber logged on earlier this evening, that's amazing for just a week of existence!



I thought we could follow on a little from my google translate experience and explain to each other how the concept behind the label picturebook works in other languages and cultures – also written picture book and picture-book in English! I recall Evelyn Arizpe asking this question a couple of years ago on a facebook research group.  Few people answered her question. It was in the back of my mind as I wrote the multilingual message in my earlier post and I wondered if anyone would comment on my translations ... No one has!



In Portuguese, academics talk of the álbum, álbum narrativo, álbum ilustrado but generally teachers and parents talk about a livro ilustrado – this would equate to the distinction between picturebook and illustrated book/storybook I suppose. The real Portuguese on this list can correct me if I’ve got it wrong (I’m just an English person pretending to be Portuguese!). Álbum comes from the French  and I wondered why the French use this term and how it fits into the concept of picturebook.  Can anyone tell me?  The Spanish also use álbum –  again is it just because the French do? But what about the Italians? These are all romance languages, so do they all use and refer to the album? Google translate gave me libri illustrati – is that right?



What about other languages, how is this form of children’s literature referred to and how does the concept come across through the label? I recall a Polish colleague telling us that there is no suitable word for a picturebook in Polish.



Thanks in advance for any comments.



Sandie





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On 27/10/12 18:09, "Sandie Mourão" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:



To all who have recently subscribed to the New Directions in picturebook research discussion list.



I have just checked some statistics and since this list was set up earlier this week, over 130  subscribers have happily joined.  Thank you all so much for showing such enthusiasm and interest.



I thought I'd give a little background to this initiative.  Just over a year ago I attended the third New Directions in picturebook research seminar /event/meeting in Tubingen, Germany - organised by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer. There I offered to set something up to enable interested folk to come together to share a wide range of experiences related to picturebook research, to support young researchers, to share information about publications, conferences, and events and to encourage participation and sharing on a multilingual and multicultural level. We discussed various means for doing this - but I was slow to get going. It is thanks to Evelyn Arizpe at the University of Glasgow, who agreed to set up the JISCMAIL list for me - being resident in Portugal (outside of the UK), I could not do this myself. I have agreed to moderate the list for the time being. I am happy for any other enthusiastic person to do this with me or instead of me.



The list has already been hugely useful for Nithya Sivashankar who has been looking for picturebooks related to partition and war.  It was such a waft of fresh air seeing the messages arrive with picturebook titles in different languages.  Thanks to those of you who have already posted.



I hope the list continues to enable such activity and connects researchers worldwide through the picturebook, no matter what language they speak.  Google translate can be such a quick resource if we need a general translation, and doesn't do too badly these days... Even if it does bring a smile to our lips!  I am encouraging all languages to appear here, thus developing both our intercomprehension skills and our understanding of what is happening in  the picturebook world, or should I say O mundo dos álbuns (I speak Portuguese but write it badly!) and with the help of google translate... el mundo de los libros álbuns; il mondo dei libri illustrati; le monde des albums ... Dare I say... Verden af ​billedbogen; Świata z książki z obrazkami; Svet obrázková kniha; Mae byd y llyfr lluniau; I världen av bilderbok ...



If anyone has any comments or thoughts about anything particular they would like to see on this list do send in your thoughts.



Many thanks and best wishes,



Sandie





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