en es en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en es en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en en
The first issue of our new journal, International Research in Children’s Literature, will be published in July. The journal is the first to profile international research in the field of children’s literature and will be a must-read journal for students and scholars. IRSCL members can subscribe at a reduced rate. To subscribe to IRCL please go to the Edinburgh University Press website.
Our member Ruth Bottigheimer has recently posted a Bibliography of British Books for Children and Adolescents 1470-1770 for the use of scholars of children’s literature. The bibliography includes instructional manuals and school textbooks along with books of manners, religious instruction, and chapbooks. Ruth has also provided a brief essay on the parameters of the bibliography, explaining the types of material in the bibliography, the meaning of ‘children’ and ‘adolescents’ in the context of the bibliography, the question of successive editions, a book’s fingerprint, edition number, printruns, dating, titles, authors, printers, publishers, place of publication for early British children’s books, genre, illustrations, measurements, readership, format, location, and observations about individual books.
A bibliography like this can never be complete, and additional information from users will be incorporated on an annual basis.
The bibliography can be accessed by googling ‘Bottigheimer Bibliography’.
Posted in members' news
Posted on April 4, 2008 by admin
Congratulations to IRSCL members Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Ulyana Hnidets (National University, Lviv, Ukraine), who have successfully defended their doctoral theses. Well done, doctors!
Posted in members' news
Posted on April 1, 2008 by admin
By now IRSCL members should have received an email from Tomoko Masaki, alerting them to the possibility that the International Institute of Children’s Literature, Osaka (IICLO) will be closed down and its collection dispersed through the Osaka Prefectural Library. IRSCL has multiple associations with IICLO. Many of us visited the Institute during our Congress in August 2007, and admired its wonderful collections of primary and secondary material including rare early books. IRSCL members have carried out research at IICLO, supported by its knowledgeable staff. Since 1987 the Institute has hosted the Brothers Grimm Award, sponsored by the Kinran-kai Foundation, honouring, among other scholars, the following current and former IRSCL members: Klaus Doderer (1987), Göte Klingberg (1989), James Fraser (1991), Denise Escarpit (1995), Jack Zipes (1999), Jean Perrot (2001), Peter Hunt (2003), Maria Nikolajeva (2005) and, most recently, John Stephens (2007).
The Institute has reached out to the community, too, through storytelling, exhibitions, puppet shows, kamishibai and children’s activities. For information about IICLO in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, go to their website.
Tomoko says that the governor of Osaka prefecture does not believe that the prefecture can afford to keep IICLO open. However, emails from around the world might convince him of the importance of IICLO to the international community of children’s literature researchers. If you want to email the governor, contact me at: clarex@deakin.edu.au. I’ll then send you the appropriate information.
Posted in members' news
IRSCL Book Award 2022- Applications open
Open Position: Assistant Professor in Global/Transnational Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies