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Some interesting possibilities for those interested in texts for children All best Mel From: iBbY Ireland Newsletter [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Subject: Newsletter Vol. 26 October 2011 iBbY Info is the e-newsletter of iBbY Ireland, the Irish national section of IBBY, an organisation dedicated to promoting intercultural dialogue through children's literature October 2011 Vol. 26 Bookbird: Special Issue on Graphic Novels Around the World The October 2011 issue of the IBBY journal Bookbird is a full-colour examination of international graphic novels, including studies on the work of Shaun Tan, Raymond Briggs and Dave McKean as well as features on the process, history, nature and power of graphic novels in India, Iran and Korea, the evolving picture-book scene in Australia and the translation of 'sound effects' in the graphic novel, Robot Dreams. More information as well as subscription details are available at www.ibby.org <http://www.ibby.org> Recent Noteworthy Children's Literature Books and Projects 2011 UNESCO International Literacy Prize The theme of the 2011 UNESCO International Literacy prizes is literacy and peace, with special consideration to gender equality. Prizewinners include programmes in Burundi, Mexico, the United States of America, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with honourable mentions to programmes in Pakistan and the Philippines. The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize rewards the activities of governments or governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO's) displaying merit and achieving particularly effective results in contributing to the fight for literacy. It gives special consideration to the creation, development and dissemination of mother-tongue languages in developing countries. Each prize consists of US$20,000, a medal and a diploma. For more information about the prize and the prizewinning projects, see the UNESCO <http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/literacy/literacy-prizes/unesco-king-sejong-prize/> website. 2011 Notable Children's Books, US Association for Library Service to Children This award recognises notable books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways. For information on this year's list of winners for Young, Middle and Older Readers, see the ALSC website <http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb/index.cfm> . Branford Boase Award Out Of Shadows, set in 1980's Zimbabwe, by Jason Wallace, edited by Charlie Sheppard and published by Andersen Press, has won this year's Branford Boase Award. This award was set up to encourage new writers and is given each year to the most promising work of fiction for children by a debut novelist. The Branford Boase Award also honours the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of the editor in nurturing new talent. 2011 Skipping Stones Honour Awards The honored books promote an understanding of the world’s many cultures, cultivate cooperation and encourage a deeper understanding of the world’s incredible diversity, ecological richness, respect for differing viewpoints and relationships in and between human societies. These books and resources offer a variety of learning experiences for all ages. You can see the list of this year's winners at http://www.skippingstones.org/2011Bookspresslist.LR.pdf <http://www.skippingstones.org/2011Bookspresslist.LR.pdf> JUST CHILDREN TRAINING PROGRAMME: Training for Pre-school Educators in the Just Children Story Sack The Just Children training programme is designed for those working in early childhood educational settings. Developed in consultation with educators and early education experts the programme is built around the colourful children’s story of Mama Panya’s Pancakes. Using this book, a puppet, rhymes, a CD and photographs, the programme explores ways of introducing children aged 3 to 6 years to concepts such as fairness, interdependence, near and far, similarity and difference and another perspective, in a global context. All the learning experiences explored are designed in accordance with the principles and themes set out in Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework (NCCA, 2009). To book a training session or for more information contact Mary Boyce, Trócaire, Maynooth, Co Kildare. Tel: 015053291, email mboyce@trócaire.ie <mailto:mboyce@trócaire.ie> Children's Book Council of Australia Awards The CBCA Awards Foundation announced the 2011 Book of the Year award winners. The Book of the Year for Older Readers went to Sonya Hartnett's The Midnight Zoo while the Book for the Year for Younger Readers was won by Isobelle Carmody's The Red Wind. The Book of the Year: Early Childhood, intended for children in the pre-reading to early reading stages, was won by Maudie and Bear by Jan Omerod. For more information about the winners and the Honour Books, see www.cbca.org.au <http://www.cbca.org.au> 2011 Nautilus Book Awards The Nautilus Awards recognizes books and audio books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, responsible leadership and positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the creative imagination and offer the reader new possibilities for a better life and a better world. The 2011 Gold winners for children's literature include The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sis and Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A. & Philippe Cousteau. The 2011 Silver award winners include the novel Riding Out the Hurricane for middle grade and YA readers, by Irish author, Maeve McMahon. P*TAG E-book Anthology of Poetry for Teens P*TAG, published this month in time for the US Teen Read Week (16th-23rd October) is the second e-book anthology edited by professor Sylvia Wardell and poet Janet Wong. In this collection, 31 poets speak to the complicated lives of today's teens, with poems about love and longing, war and worry, tattoos, piercings, watching people, being watched, broken lives, luck. burping up kittens and more. The list of contributors is a "who's who" of the best poets for young people, including YA poets and verse novelists Naomi Shihab Nye, Margarita Engle, Allan Wolf, Betsy Franco, Paul Janeczko, Helen Frost, Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman, current Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis and Lee Bennett Hopkins. Readers can play P*TAG on their own by writing a poem about a photo from the photo library blog at http://teenpoetrytagtime.blogspot.com <http://teenpoetrytagtime.blogspot.com> and comparing it to the P*TAG poem that was inspired by that same photo. More information is available at www.PoetryTagTime.com. <http://www.PoetryTagTime.com.> Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2011 The following six children's books have been selected by the National Book Council of Malaysia for their 50 Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2011: The Real Elephant by Yusof Gajah; My Mother’s Garden by Emila Yusof; the Eco-kids series by Fay Khoo & Asha Gill, illustrated by Sarah Joan Mokhtar; Fatimah’s Kampung by Iain Buchanan; Hayley’s Vegemania Garden and Hayley’s Fruitastic Garden by Mohana Gill, illustrated by Tan Vay Fern. The inaugural catalogue by the National Book Council of Malaysia will be distributed at the Frankfurt Book Fair in mid October. CLPE Poetry Award for 2011 The winner of the CLPE Poetry Award for 2011 is Philip Gross for Off Road to Everywhere. Gross’s collections of poetry for adults and children include The Water Table, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The All-Nite Café which won the Signal Award. Philip Gross is also the author of ten teenage novels - most recently Going for Stone, The Lastling and The Storm Garden. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. For more information about the award, see http://www.clpe.co.uk/ <http://www.clpe.co.uk/> Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners The young adult fiction category was won by Cath Crowley for Graffiti Moon while the children’s fiction award went to author Boori Monty Pryor and illustrator Jan Ormerod for their picture book Shake a Leg. Inaugurated in 2008, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards recognise individual excellence and the contribution Australian authors make to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life. Each winner receives a prize of $80,000 while each shortlisted author will receive $5,000. More information about the awards and the 2011 shortlist is available here <http://www.arts.gov.au/funding-support/awards/prime-ministers-literary-awards/2011-shortlists> . Children's Literature Activities and Events Baboró International Arts Festival for Children Baboró, from 16th to 23rd October, provides a feast of fun, creativity and performances for children of all ages. Showcasing theatre, dance, music, puppetry and visual art from Ireland and around the world, Baboró promises to excite and entertain, inspire and energise all who attend this festival specially created for young audiences and their families. See www.baboro.ie <http://www.barboro.ie> for programme and booking information. Ask Amy Green: Young Editor Competition To celebrate the publication of the latest Ask Amy Green book, Love and Other Drama-Ramas by Sarah Webb, Walker Books is holding a competition for four book lovers to join Sarah’s special editorial team. Log onto the Ask Amy Green website www.askamygreen.com <http://www.askamygreen.com> and click on the Write-a-rama Competition button. Send a review of Love and Other Drama-Ramas or any other Ask Amy Green book in 300 words or less, saying why you like it and who your favourite character is and why. You must enter before 31st October 2011. To enter you must be aged 10 or over on 1st January 2011. Winners will be notified by 30th November. The Worst is Yet to Come: Dystopian Themes in Young Adult Fiction The popularity of dystopian fiction like Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games and Patrick Ness’ Chaos Walking series illustrate the popularity of darker themes amongst teen, young adult and adult readers. This panel discussion, at 5.30-7.30pm on 14th October at the National Library of Ireland as part of the Children’s Book Festival, features Sarah Rees Brennan (The Demon’s Lexicon series) and Peader O’Guilin (The Inferior and The Deserter). In addition new comer Ilsa J. Bick will be visiting from the USA to launch her new title Ashes. The three authors will discuss the popularity of the dystopian genres amongst young readers and its crossover appeal. Inis magazine editor David Maybury will chair the event. This event is free, with admission available on a first come, first served basis. Irish Postgraduate Children's Literature Network An IPCLN Symposium will be held in NUI Galway on Saturday 8th October 2011. IPCLN events provide a forum for postgraduate students in children's literature to meet to discuss their current research and any relevant issues they may be facing. The focus of this upcoming event is twofold and will feature a talk by Jerry Griswold on the topic of "Getting Published", and a series of brief presentations by students of children's literature on their research topics. All postgraduate students are welcome, regardless of the stage you are at with your research. For more information about the network and this event, contact Ruth Scales at [log in to unmask] <http:[log in to unmask]> or Jessica D'Eath at [log in to unmask] <http:[log in to unmask]> Children's Book Festival 2011 The exciting programme of this year's Children's Books Festival runs the month of October and includes international authors Tony DiTerlizzi (The Spiderwick Chronicles), Justin Somper (Vampirates), Andy Briggs (the new Tarzan series) Sophie McKenzie (Girl Missing), Becca Fitzpatrick (the Hush, Hush series) and Lauren Kate (the Fallen series) along with Irish authors Derek Landy (the Skullduggery Pleasant series), Sarah Webb (the Amy Green series), Judi Curtin (the Alice series) and Oisin McGann (The Wisdom of Dead Men) and Roddy Doyle (A Greyhound of a Girl.) Also on the menu at libraries across Ireland will be Mary Arrigan (Esty's Gold), the Fanzini Brother's Comedy Circus Show, the National Print Museum workshops, Aubrey Flegg (Wings over Delft), Celine Kiernan (The Moorehawke Trilogy) and Maeve Friel (Tiger Lily). They will be joined by a raft of newly published talents, including Nita Fitzgerald (It's Great Being Little), Paula Leyden (The Butterfly Heart) and Fionnuala MacCurtain (The Story of Thomas MacCurtain). See www.childrensbooksireland.ie <http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie> for more information. Books Beyond Borders Seminar Books Beyond Borders, a collaboration between the Laureate na nÓg, Children’s Books Ireland and the Austrian Embassy, aims to explore the topic of books and reading in multi-cultural societies. The event will take place on 31st October in the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. It will focus on discussion of the issues surrounding multiculturalism in educational contexts and the role played by books and reading in integration in multi-cultural societies focusing on the situration in Austria and Ireland.The discussion will be led by Laureate na nÓg, Siobhán Parkinson, and Austrian writer, Rachel van Kooij, and will draw on children, their teachers, educators in the wider context and anybody involved in the worlds of children’s literature, education, multiculturalism and integration. For further details, contact Nessa O’Mahony at [log in to unmask] <http:[log in to unmask]> Seminar on The Secret Garden Organised by the Children's Books History Society, a one-day seminar to mark the centenary of the publication of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden will be held in London on Saturday 15th October. Proceedings start at 10.00.a.m. The venue is the Church Hall of the Great Crown Court Church of Scotland in Covent Garden and the speakers will be Dr Ann Thwaite, Professor Gretchen Gerzina, Anne Harvey, Dr Dennis Butts, Professor Peter Hunt and Dr Carole Dunbar. Further details are available from Pat Garrett, 26 St Bernard's Close, Buckfast, South Devon TQ11 0EP: e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Launch of Images Beyond Borders Exhibition Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson, Children’s Books Ireland and the Austrian Embassy wish to invite you to attend the opening of “Images Beyond Borders”, an exhibition of illustrations by children’sillustrators from Ireland and Austria.The exhibition will be launched with a discussion on children’s bookillustration by Niamh Sharkey and Valerie Coghlan, at 7pm on Friday 7th October, at No Grants Gallery/ The Culture Box, 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. There will be a wine reception sponsored by the Austrian Embassy. RSVP: Nessa O’Mahony, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Cork City Libraries Children's Book Fest 2011 Children and young people in Cork city were invited to embark on an amazing literary journey on 28th September with the launch of Cork City Libraries’ Children’s Book Festival 2011. Based on the Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days, all under 18’s are invited to travel to the 7 city library branches during the 35 days of the festival and partake in the varied programme of events. In keeping with this year’s theme a specially commissioned leather bound journal was signed by all the children present. The journal begins its voyage to 80 children’s libraries world wide, to be signed by children and stamped by librarians and will eventually make its way home to Cork. This year’s programme of events is available at www.corkcitylibraries.ie <https://mail.froebel.ie/owa/redir.aspx?C=5bb69571e59c489fb0b9d906b81480d9&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.corkcitylibraries.ie> Festival of Stories at Imaginosity Imaginosity, Dublin Children’s Museum is holding its inaugural ‘Festival of Stories’ which takes place from 8th to 16th October, in celebration of the National Children’s Book Festival 2011. The Imaginosity festival aims to encourage families to come together to experience the joy of reading and to explore the wonderful world of storytelling. There will be something to suit all ages over the course of the festival, for children up to the age of 9 years and their families with events including ‘Yoga Stories’, ‘Sign-A- Story’ workshops with ‘Irish Deaf Kids’, comic illustration and animation workshops, ‘Cook Up A Story’ creative workshops, Giant Pop-Up Art workshops and puppet storytime. Specifically for grown-ups, Imaginosity will host a special ‘Bedtime Storytelling Skills’ Workshop to encourage and enable parents to learn some important skills for that special time of the day. All ‘Festival of Stories’ activities and events are free with general admission to Imaginosity. Booking is advised, particularly at weekends. For full details, see www.imaginosity.ie <http://www.imaginosity.ie/> or call (01) 217613033. Retreat for Children's Writers, 4th-6th November This retreat is jointly sponsored by SCBWI Ireland and SCBWI British Isles and will take place from 5pm Friday afternoon 4th November to 2pm Sunday 6th November at the Emmaus Centre, Swords. Steve Hartley, English children’s author, will be resident author facilitator for the entire weekend. Oisin McGann, Irish children’s author and illustrator, is the guest facilitator on Saturday, and Elaina O’Neill, Managing Editor at Little Island, is the guest facilitator on Sunday. Booking and programme information is available at http://scbwiireland.wordpress.com/ <http://scbwiireland.wordpress.com/> . The cost, includeing food and lodging, is €240 or £210 per person for SCBWI members or €260 or £230 for non-members. Calls for Papers and Academic Events in Children’s Literature A Brand of Fictional Magic: Imaginative Empathy in Harry Potter, 17-18th May 2012, Scotland Papers are invited for this conference hosted by the School of English, University of St Andrews, Scotland, which seeks to critically explore Rowling’s concept of imaginative empathy, the ability to 'learn and understand, without having experienced'. Of particular interest are ways in which the power of empathy, in addition to its being of socio-political necessity, might be read as Rowling’s 'brand of fictional magic'. Relevant topics might include the poetics of empathy; readings of the series as children’s or YA literature; mythopoesis and the re-appropriation of folklore; Medievalism and depictions of the Middle Ages in the Wizarding World; space, landscape, or architecture; representations and uses of socialization or maturation; depictions of education and pedagogy, empathetic or bounded; Rowling’s concepts of “mental agoraphobia” and “willful unimagination”; literary influences on the series; textual or semiotic analysis of the narrative; genre criticism, viz., Gothic, fantasy, fairy tale, school story, dystopia, etc; political empathy, class action, or solidarity. Submit a 300-word abstract in .doc, .docx., or .pdf format with a short CV to John Patrick Pazdziora ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) by 15th November 2011. Africana Childhood in Literature and Popular Culture Across Time, Space and Imagination Proposals are invited for chapters that look at the creative ways in which youth make sense of the powerful yet changing ideas and identity?, in a world saturated with media images and global commodities, music, social media, fiction etc. (a) What constructions of “Black childhood” identities recur in popular culture and literature? (b) What could be some possible implications of these constructions? This collection of essays intends to present multi-layered ways of thinking about Africana childhood in literature and popular culture. Submissions from an array of childhood perspectives might address topics such as youth and spoken words; rappin’ on the place of belonging; dialogues with other histories, other places, other youths; migrancy, faith/religion; domesticating youths; heterogeneous presence, education; sexuality; gender and class; rape and shame. Send a 500-word abstract (including name, position, institutional affiliation, and email contact) to Vivian Yenika-Agbaw ([log in to unmask]) and Lindah Mhando ([log in to unmask]) by 1st November. Re-Reading Henry Rider Haggard Essays are invited on the life and works of Henry Rider Haggard. While his two most famous works, King Solomon’s Mines (1886) and She (1887) have attracted a steady stream of articles in recent years, most notably from the fields of postcolonial and gender studies, a significant proportion of his oeuvre remains almost entirely unstudied, despite their considerable popular success in his lifetime. Topics may include spiritualism and the occult; Egyptology; ecocritical readings; romance; Haggard, Freud and psychoanalysis; Animal Studies; Queer readings; fantasy; literary topographies; gender, space and the body; the fin de siecle; the South African experience; the fin de siecle. Send 500-word abstracts with a brief biographical profile to John Miller at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 31st October. Chapters will be 6,000 words in length and will be commissioned by 15th November for delivery by 1st March. Call for Peer Reviews for Graduate Journal The Journal of Graduate Research in Young People’s Materials and Culture (JGR) is a peer-reviewed open-access e-journal that will publish graduate student research in the areas of children’s and young adult literature, childhood studies, and cultural studies related to children and young people, as well as creative writing for children and young adults. They are currently developing a list of peer reviewers to help evaluate manuscript submissions, utilizing a double blind peer review process to select and approve papers for publication. Readers will be asked to undertake the basic reviewing tasks of summarizing the article, providing a recommendation on acceptance, and listing suggestions for revision as appropriate. If you are interested in contributing as a peer reviewer, email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , indicating your areas of interest and the types of papers you would like to review. The website includes a mock-issue with an example of the format of published works (http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ypmc/index <http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ypmc/index> ). The Looking Glass: Issue on New Media The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature invites submissions for a special issue on New Media. The submission deadline is 31st October and the publication date is the January/February 2012 issue. From "Choose Your Own Adventure" to The 39 Clues, this issue will explore the myriad ways in which children's literature and technology intersect, and how that intersection changes the literature, the reader, and maybe even the tech. Topics might include e-books; book-film-animation translation; blogging serials; fan-sites and fan fiction; publishing and marketing trends such as smart phone apps and multi-platform marketing. For submission guidelines, see the journal home page: www.the-looking-glass.net <http://www.the-looking-glass.net/> . Postscript's Special Issue on Children in Theory Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory invites articles for the Spring 2012 issue, a special edition on the theme “Children in Theory”. Possible topics include but are not limited to literature or art for children; representations of children; care and discipline of children; the education or instruction of children; violence toward children; the perspectives of children themselves; the displacement of children; childhood and class; childhood and gender; childhood and race. Contributors in any field of the humanities who are currently enrolled in graduate or post-graduate programs or are recent graduates are eligible to submit. Send 3000-5000 word articles to the editor at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Please also include on a separate document a brief (300 word) abstract, as well as your contact information. The deadline for consideration in this issue is 1st November 2011. 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