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This article explores the experiences of Eastern and Central European immigrants in North America, focusing on themes of memory, identity, and belonging. It discusses the challenges faced by these immigrants, including nativist rhetoric and the risk of assimilation. The article examines the changing representations of Eastern and Central Europe in North America through various narrative forms such as novels, memoirs, graphic novels, and TV shows. It highlights the importance of memory and identity in understanding the complex experiences of these immigrant communities, and includes analyses of specific works and an interview with a Polish American writer. Overall, the article provides a diverse and nuanced perspective on the presence of Eastern and Central European communities in North America. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides a list of contributors to the journal Book History. The contributors come from various academic backgrounds and specialize in different areas of research related to literature, publishing, and book history. Their research interests include children's literature, medical and erotic print networks, early modern printing, Canadian literatures, religion and reading, the history of the book trade, and African American studies. The contributors are affiliated with universities and research institutions in France, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany. [Extracted from the article]

Like the interviewer, Tom Ryan is based in Nova Scotia, in Canada's Maritimes. Ryan is the author of more than a half-dozen books, including some critically acclaimed works for young readers: Keep This to Yourself (2019), for example, earned the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for YA Crime Book and the 2020 ITW Award for Best YA Thriller; more recently I Hope You're Listening (2020) was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. In what follows, Ryan and I dwell on these two novels to explore what attracts him to the YA genre, his writing process, central themes in his oeuvre and how he imbues his characters with psychological complexity. This interview contributes to scholarship by expanding critical attention on Nova Scotian literature and by attending to Ryan's remarkably successful works of genre fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Novels from the Dear Canada series of historic fiction, published by Scholastic Canada, currently populate the shelves of school classrooms and libraries across Canada. This study explores two Dear Canada novels that chronicle significant moments in Atlantic Canadian history: Janet McNaughton’s novel (Flame and ashes: The great fire diary of Triffie Winsor. St. Johns, Newfoundland, 1892, Scholastic Canada, Toronto, 2014) which explores the Great Fire of Newfoundland in 1892, and Julie Lawson’s novel, No Safe Harbour (No safe harbour: the Halifax explosion diary of Charlotte Blackburn, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1917, Scholastic Canada, Toronto, 2006), which explores the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Kenneth Kidd (Child Lit 33: 120-149, 2005) notes that “subjects previously thought too upsetting for children are now deemed appropriate and even necessary” in children’s literature (p. 12); indeed, the themes of both Flame and Ashes and No Safe Harbour resonate with recent attempts to represent broader and more diverse ranges of experiences in children’s fiction. Like many other texts in the series, these texts explore economic hardship and psychological distress. Furthermore, they explore events through the eyes of subjects who have, historically, had very little agency: female children. Drawing on narrative theory and feminist standpoint theory (Fuller in Writing the everyday: women’s textual communities in Atlantic Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2004), this study examines the narrative techniques McNaughton and Lawson rely on to counterbalance difficult historical events with the appeal of young protagonists who offer subjective responses to the historical moment. This study considers both the ideological challenges and the possible advantages of circulating historical knowledge that is linked to girlhood and profoundly rooted in place. Ultimately, I argue that these young female narrators provide important inroads for interrogating what counts as history in historical narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recollecting John 17 Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles. VII Lehrkräfte [Supporting lexical learning in the EFL classroom: case studies on student teachers' professional vision]. 29 Theory and practice of foreign language teaching]. [Assessment in the EFL classroom. [Extracted from the article]

This article presents the results of a content analysis of 1,132 picture books published by French Canadian editors from 2003 to 2012. We took into account the representations of members of visible minorities, as well as the cultural origins of the authors and illustrators. Results show important gaps between the Canadian demographic reality and the representation of visible minorities in picture books. Consequences of the scarcity of multicultural picture books on children's development are discussed. A few strategies that public libraries can use to alleviate the situation are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most common story for children is one in which a central character leaves home in search of an adventure or is pushed out of an originary home, journeys to an unfamiliar place, and, after a series of exciting and/or dangerous experiences, either returns home, or chooses to claim the unfamiliar space as a new home. Whether as historical novel, domestic fiction, or fantasy, this story finds its happy ending in the agreement of the child to be secure (and secured) inside. The turn of the millennium, however, has seen an increasing number of narratives for young readers that challenge the earlier pattern. Using three Canadian novels for young people (published in 2004, 2006, and 2007) as examples, I demonstrate that, while these narratives may locate themselves within the context of a social-justice pedagogy and are concerned to teach young people the facts of homelessness and to promote thoughtful reflections on the underlying social causes of which homelessness is the symptom, readers are also invited to understand the young characters in the text more abstractly, as figures that represent possible ways of being in the world. Indeed, many of the recent narratives for young people replicate, almost uncannily, the metaphors and rhetorical turns of the theorists of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article draws on research conducted in Britain and Canada into representations of the Inuit in juvenile non-fiction. Through the examination of text and pictorial representations in reference books, and geographical and historical non-fiction, attention is drawn to the continuing prevalence of a wide range of stereotypes. With the help of a discussion group of Inuit and other residents of the Arctic, key issues are confronted and strengths and weaknesses of a variety of representations identified. The article concludes by recommending various approaches that would result in a more balanced image of the Inuit, and by analogy, of other indigenous people worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Picture Books Alligator baby. Robert Munsch. Scholastic. $12.99. 0-590-12386-6. Grades K-4. -- Absurd exaggeration is Munsch's stock-in-trade, and this tale of a family that gets mixed up with the local [...]

AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN Houston, I arranged to meet Coy Batson, a friend of mine from Harcourt Brace publishers. Coy had just one week in Houston and was hankering [...]

This article examines the influence of the trend of reading Harry Potter books on Canadian fiction. The ways in which Harry Potter books have contributed to Canadian children's literature and to Canadian adult literature are explored. Children's fascination with fantasy and the role of fantasy in their lives and their implications for education are discussed. Details of the group of writers responding in ways to the Harry Potter phenomenon are presented. Books which have also crossed the lines between adult and child readers are discussed.

Canadian book sales are down by almost 50% over the last ten yearsand Canadian-authored book sales represent a mere 15% of bookspurchased according to the More Canada Report (2018). In helping define Canadian books, young readers will have a chanceto discuss what makes a book Canadian: the author? * Have Canadian books available for all readers: board books,picture books, audiobooks, graphic novels, Hi-Lo's, etc. that enableand empower readers at every stage of their relationship with books Sharon Jennings: Author of over 60 children's books, teacher andeducator, and beloved President of the Canadian Society ofChildren's Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP)www.sharonjennings.ca. [Extracted from the article]

Frank Newfeld. Groundwood. $25. 0-88899-333-1. All ages. -- The subtitle is: 'An alphabet for adults and worldly children' -- and it is a wonderful, sophisticated, arty, humorous, A-Z pastiche -- [...]

Elizabeth Wellburn. Rubicon. $18.95. 1-921156-99-6. Grades 3 up. -- Very different, and affecting, this little picture book is a tribute to the brave hero-musician, Vedran Smailovic, who played his cello [...]

Moore/Fernandes. Doubleday. $19.95. 0-385-25784-8. All ages. -- This is a book that the youngsters will lap up! Clement Moore's classic poem, 'Twas the night before Christmas...' is illustrated by Kim [...]

Susan Bosak. Communication Project. $15.95. 1-896232-01-9. All ages. -- The same throat-tightening emotions that many get from reading Robert Munsch's Love you forever will come to the fore with this [...]

Paul Yee. Groundwood. $15.95. 0-88899-330-7. Grades K-2. -- A handsome fantasy picture book featuring a lonely Chinese child who moves with his family to a Canadian city. Afraid to meet [...]

Margaret Laurence. Tundra. $17.99. 0-88776-455-X. Grades 1 up. --This Christmas tale became a Canadian classic and has now been reissued in a new format with classy pictures by Muriel Wood. [...]

Julie Lawson. Scholastic. $17.99. 0-590-24938-X. Grades 3 up. -- Julie Lawson fictionalizes the true story of a cougar who wandered into the famous Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia (and [...]

David Bouchard. Orca. $16.95. 1-55143-081-9. All ages. -- Many will think this picture-poem is not for children -- but it's an expressive poem about the life of a young man [...]

Kady Denton MacDonald. Kids Can. $24.95. 1-55074-554-9. Grades K-3. -- Winner of the Governor General's Award for illustration, this delightful collection of traditional nursery rhymes will be a treat for [...]

Robert Bateman. Penguin. $22.99. 0-670-87970-3. Grades 7 up. -- Canada's eminent wildlife artist captivates the reader in both illustration and text as he describes his trip to Africa. His vibrant [...]

Adrienne Mason. Kids Can. $12.95. 1-55074-448-8. Grades 3 up. -- There's something kind of humorous (maybe even icky) about growing mealworms -- but this lively book is very good at [...]

Pat Hancock. Kids Can. $18.95. 1-55074-473-9. Grades 3 up. -- Each of Canada's 20 prime ministers is profiled on two pages in this handsome overview. Includes a portrait and highlights [...]

Shelley Tanaka. Hyperion. $22.95. 0-7868-0441-6. Grades 4 up. -- Aztec life just before the Conquistadors arrived is described with great skill and organization. Graphics are bright and vivid, showing how [...]

Barbara Greenwood. Kids Can. $22.95. 1-55074-507-7. Grades 3 up. -- A well-executed look at the Underground Railway, mixing fact and fiction by telling the tale of the escape of a [...]

Paul Romanuk. Scholastic. $5.99. 0-590-03822-2. Grades 2-adult. -- A perpetual favorite, this provides short biographies, statistics and full-color posters of 17 of the most exciting hockey players from Mats Sudin [...]

Eric Walters. Orca. $8.95. 1-55143-099-1. Grades 7-10. -- Fourteen-year-old Jed, whose father is flying Spitfires in Europe, becomes involved in the affairs of the military base near his mother's Haida [...]

Richard Scrimger. Tundra. $8.95. 0-88776-428-2. Grades 3-7. -- Norbert, the teeny tiny alien from outer space who takes up residence in Allan Dingwall's nose, creates havoc and confusion for Allan [...]

Deborah Hodge. Kids Can. $14.95. 1-55074-429-1. Grades 3-5. -- Just the right amount of text. Excellent pictures and diagrams. Another fine addition to the Kids Can wildlife [...]

Julie Johnston. Tundra. $19.99. 0-88776-441-X. Grades 9 up. -- Sixteen-year-old Fred suffers the verbal slings and arrows of his critical, but well-meaning father who cannot abide his son's stuttering. With [...]

Alan Bartholomew. Kids Can. $5.95. 1-55074-439-9. Grades 3 up. -- Just hand this book to anyone who you think should know about electricity. It's full of humorous, lively and very [...]

James Houston. Tundra. $18.99. 0-88776-459-2. Grades 3 up. -- Canadian writer and artist, James Houston, describes some of his favorite pieces, and how they got made. Simple, direct and [...]

William Bell. Simon & Schuster. $17.00. 0-689-82248-0. Grades 7 up. -- Some will reject this book because of the awkward scenes where Zack tries to score with his girlfriend, but [...]

Tim Wynne-Jones. DK Publishing. $15.95. 0-7894-2495-9. Grades 7-10. -- There's something mysterious about the nightmares that 15-year-old Stephen suffers. His brother had the same dreams, and ran away from home. [...]

Janet McNaughton. Tuckamore Books. $11.95. 1-89538-793-0. Grades 7-10. --In 1945, 15-year-old Ev competes with two teenage boys for the scholarship that bears her father's name. As the war ends, life [...]

Janet Lunn. Knopf Canada. 0-676-97143-1. $6.99. Grades 6 up. -- Winner of the Governor General's Award, this fast-paced novel, just recently issued in paperback, follows the adventures of Phoebe, who [...]

Gayle Friesen. Kids Can Press. $5.56. 1-55074-463-1. Grades 6-10. -- Amazing to think that this is a first novel, when the plot is so well developed, and the characters so [...]

Carol Matas. Scholastic. $6.95. 0-590-12498-6. Grades 6 up. -- A moving and hopeful novel about the Holocaust and the generosity of the people in a tiny French village, whose citizens [...]

Margaret Buffie. Kids Can Press. $6.95. 1-55074-415-1. Grades 6-10. -- A crippling panic attack puts teen Addy out of regular school, suffering agoraphobia. Alone in a strange house in Winnipeg, [...]

A new web site celebrating the diversity and success of Canadian illustrated children's literature has been launched. The Canadian Children's Illustrated Books Project web site is now accessible via the [...]