Hi Marion,
Thanks for reminding us about your journal, and the important work  
going on regarding local detail in children's literature, particularly  
from marginalised groups. But they tend to be marketed to fairly small  
groups sadly, as these are often produced by publishing houses on low  
budgets. Sometimes they make it into the EFL education market and then  
really take off - like Alexie Sherman's 'The Absolutely True Diary of  
a Part-Time Indian', a young adult novel.

But the homogenising of pictures in picturebooks that reach an  
international market through publishers' co-operation is really worth  
investigating, as they may have a massive yet very subtle cultural  
relevance - and towards North American culture.

Cynthia, could we have the full reference for 'Globalization and the  
Picture Book' please? It described the publishing situation very  
clearly. Thanks! And thanks too for the very interesting LTCL survey,  
Cathy. I'm looking forward to reading the full report asap.

Janice

Dr. des. Janice Bland
Department of English and American Studies
University of Paderborn
Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn
05251 60-2861
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OUT NOW: Bland, Janice and Lütge, Christiane (eds) (2013), Children's  
Literature in Second Language Education. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Quoting Marion Rana <[log in to unmask]>:

> Just two very general comments: interjuli published an issue on  
> regionalism in children's literature in 2010, with articles on e.g.  
> regional myths in Swizz children's books, sense if odentity and  
> belonging in First Nation children' s books:  
> http://www.interjuli.de/de/ausgaben/regionalismus.html.
> In the interjuli-issue on migration, there are two papers that might  
> be relevant to some of you: Roni Natov's "Representing the Cultural  
> 'Other' in YA Fiction"  
> (http://www.interjuli.de/de/ausgaben/migration/natov-other.html) and  
> Erin Spring's "'Have People in Toronto Seen What I've Seen?' A  
> Comparative Analysis of Place, Identity and Migration in the Context  
> of Two Canadian Picture Books"  
> (http://www.interjuli.de/de/ausgaben/migration/spring-picture.html).
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> Marion
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Catherine Butler
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 10:28 AM
>   Subject: Re: Picturebooks showing regional identity
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>   The survey was carried out in 2010, but the report is 2011.  
> Details on the EACEA website here:  
> http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/projects/public_parts/documents/comenius/com_mp_503589_ltcl.pdf.
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>   Cathy
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>   On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Sandie Mourão  
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>     Hi Cathy,
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>     Thanks for sharing the report, really interesting.  Is there a  
> publication date - is it 2010? Need to read it before I comment!
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>
>     Sandie
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>     Sandie Mourão
>     http://sandiemourao.eu
>     http://picturebooksinelt.blogspot.com/
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>     On 1/2/13 22:27, "Catherine Butler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>       I do have just a little empirical data of my own to  
> contribute. In 2010 I took part in an extensive survey of children  
> aged 7-11 in the UK, Spain, Iceland and Turkey, and amongst the  
> questions we asked about their reading was whether they considered  
> it important that the protagonist of a story be "like them" in  
> various ways, including nationality. I've attached the result from  
> our report as a screen shot (I don't know whether the list allows  
> that?), but in any case it can be downloaded here:  
> http://www.um.es/childrensliterature/site/file.php/1/Deliverables/LTCL_final_Report.pdf (p. 46). For whatever reason, there was considerable variation between countries in answering to this question,with the Turkish children in particular being significantly more likely than the others to express a preference for protagonists of their own nationality. However, this was not a survey about picturebooks specifically, and in any case perhaps raises more questions than it  
> answers!
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>       Cathy
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