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The voices of children are an expression of their intention through speech and other ways. One of those other ways is through poetry. Moreover, children explore voicing their understanding of national identity through creating poetry. As a result, this study aimed to document the exploration of children's voices in poetry as an illustration and re-imagination of national identity. The research design used in this study was a participatory qualitative one. The subjects of this study were elementary school children in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the data were collected from a children's voice project about national identity in poetry. Data were also collected through interviews, observation, and children's poetry analysis. In the end, the results of the study showed that, by allowing them to express their views, children can grow into culturally aware individuals who appreciate diversity and deeply love their country. This research implies that education of children's national identity through poetry can contribute significantly to forming a generation that is deeply patriotic and has a strong understanding of, and an active involvement in, their nation’s future. The themes that emerged from the children's voice project were the Red and White Flag, the Indonesian National Language, the Garuda Pancasila National Emblem, Indonesia's Great National Anthem, Indonesian Ethnicity, and Indonesian Culture and Customs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to identify the values expressed in 107 poems from the poetry book “Kucağımda Dünya Var Çocukların Dünyası” written by Azerbaijani writer Bilal Enser in Azerbaijani Turkish, using the phenomenological design, a qualitative research method. The research findings identified 322 value expressions in the poems, encompassing 16 different values. The poems frequently mention the value of love, followed by sharing and patriotism. Loyalty and generosity are the least frequently mentioned values. The study's results indicate that the distribution of values in the poems is unequal and not close to each other. Furthermore, it was found that the most commonly used value in Azerbaijani Turkish poetry is love, which is expected to benefit society. It is also suggested that research be conducted to identify the values present in poetry books for children published in other Turkic Republics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sounds play crucial roles in a poem's meaning (re)construction. Grasping the content of a literary work such as poetry often requires a profound interpretation of the underlying linguistic cum phonetic codes of its discourse. Extant studies on Nigerian children's poetry have paid little attention to this aspect of meaning conception, thereby concentrating mainly on the surface lexical constructs. Hence, this study aims to examine imagic iconicity in children's poems in order to demonstrate how a poem's thematic realization is inferred through the interpretation of the phonic and acoustic nature of the sounds employed. The study involves five poems: three from Ossie Enekwe's Gentle Birds Come to me and two from Ikeogu Oke's Song of Success and Other Poems for Children. The analysis is anchored to insights from Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the iconic sign, and exploits the action of acoustic and phonetic articulation of sounds to determine their functions and effects in the poems. The study reveals how specialized lexemic choices and onomatopoeia (kinaesthemes, phonaestheme or sound symbolism) in children's poems make each poem functional and purposeful. Thus, children's poetry contains language structures and configurations that transmit sense and embody what the poem is asserting in a way that interestingly engages the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Georgia Heard is well known for creating the Heart Map, but she is also a wife, mother, poet, writer, speaker, and educational consultant. Georgia is the recipient of the 2023 [...]

This article focuses on the evolution of Italian children's poetry—from the new direction taken by Gianni Rodari and Alfonso Gatto in the 1950s to the playful experiments of the 1970s and 1980s and the more recent collections that helped stimulate children's early interest in experimenting with language. In the recent works of Bruno Tognolini and Chiara Carminati, language play is accompanied by the discovery of everyday life, offering a creative and surprising reading of the day-to-day aspects of very young readers' experiences. National policy papers, followed by the establishment of the integrated education system for children from birth to six years (Italian Legislative Decree 65/2017), have recently defined a coherent pedagogical framework for childhood education, enhancing children's rights and their cognitive, relational, and expressive abilities. These new policies, which aim to guide the work of preschool teachers, underline the importance of developing the ability to listen and communicate through many languages and the personal and active exploration of the world. Starting from this perspective, contemporary children's poetry effectively enhances childhood culture, fostering the construction of a linguistic education path that enables all children, without social or cultural distinction, to appropriate the symbolic and cultural materials of their community in a personal way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examines the connection between text and illustration in contemporary children’s poetry books. In most cases, illustrations employ some form of visual enhancement or stylization. Even when they faithfully follow the themes of the texts, they establish their own visual language. Stylization thus emerges as a crucial creative element, uniquely belonging to the medium of the image. Stylization reveals that image and text can never fully coincide, even if the image depicts the same subject matter as the text. The question then becomes to what extent the illustrations align with the spirit of the text or diverge from it. To what extent do they consider the reader as a co-creator, and how much do they engage with the possibility of symbolic decoding? Children’s poetry books, compared to prose, offer greater freedom, and enable broader, more metaphorical connections with images. A separate area of examination is the realm of children’s drawings and adult illustrations imitating children’s drawings, encompassing aspects such as the technique, color palette, and typographical solutions employed in the images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature" by Suzanne Manizza Roszak is a book that explores the intersection of children's literature and activism. The author focuses on writers from around the world who engage in activism in their works for both children and adults. The book analyzes the works of these writers in five chapters, discussing themes such as antiracism, anticolonialism, and redefining concepts. The author argues for the importance of including children's literature in academic spaces and highlights the complexity and sophistication of children's literature. This book is recommended for those interested in exploring connections between children's literature and activism. [Extracted from the article]

Semiotics is studies the sign systems, the process of interpretation, the meaning and the truth hidden behind the codes, signs and symbols. This knowledge has considerable applications and functions in various areas of human relations. Literature, including children's literature is one of the most important of these areas. Using Roland Barrett's views, this study tried to analyze the children's poems of Salman Harati with an analytical-descriptive method. The results showed that Harati's poems, due to such issues as reference to various fields of natural and ideological elements, pristine, simple and intimate nature, outstanding temporal and spatial coordinates, and social themes and idealistic discourse, is able to produce various codes, and consequently various meanings and interpretations. Although these characteristics are directly related to the readers' abilities, they show that when assessed by the interpretation mechanisms of codes and analysis of other semiotic elements, his poems have a structured and thoughtful semantic structure. The action and effect of the logic of conversationalism in his poetry is another factor that provides the reader with space and the possibility of reproducing content in the process of innertext and outertext interpretations. The narrative in Harati's poetry, as an integration factor of vertical axis, has produced a variety of codes. This process, with regard to the remarkable manifestation of the codes of narrative, hermeneutic and symbolic action, demonstrates the narrative capacity and the signifier nature of his poetry. Meta-examplar implications in Harati's poems cause objective and clear associations and effectively involve metatext in the interpretation and analysis of signs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing importance of values education, the question of how to transfer values also comes to the fore. Making use of literary works in value transfer is a frequently used way. Although fictional texts come to the fore in this value transfer or value acquisition process, poems are closer to values by nature among literary works. Values and poems overlap in that they contain implicit meaning, implicitly convey the message, and appeal to emotions. It is important to know how values take place in poems for children, who are the target audience of values education. The aim of this study is to reveal the values in contemporary children's poetry and the changes in the distribution of these values over the years. Thats why children's poems written after 1980 were examined in the context of values. In the study, the data obtained by document analysis were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of the study, it has been seen that the use of individual values in poems is gradually increasing, the most processed value is love, the least discussed value is scientificity, and the values are implicitly given in the poems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Among her more than 400 books, Jane Yolen (b. 1939) has written or edited around 50 collections of poetry. In this new interview, Yolen discusses how her poetry developed throughout her writing life. We talk about her early desire in childhood to write poetry and about poets whose work she has admired. Yolen talks about her process in writing works such as the verse novel Finding Baba Yaga (2018) or the agonizing Radiation Sonnets (2003) and explains the difference between writing poetry for children and grown-ups, using her How Do Dinosaurs...? (2000–ongoing) series and Yuck, You Suck! Poems about Animals that Sip, Slurp, Suck (2022) as examples. She gives advice to teachers and suggestions to the poetically perplexed, as well as telling stories about encountering W. B. Yeats and reciting poetry to a wombat. Yolen's poetic oeuvre is by turns whimsical and heart-wrenching, lyrical and conversational. She writes with a demotic lyricism that balances the formal requirements of prosody against the musicality of everyday speech. Her poetry begins from keen observation of everyday life and translates it into the mythic and the elemental, her words creating images that haunt the readers' imaginations. What emerges is a glimpse of poetic truth—or, perhaps, the glimpse of the way to catch a glimpse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores Sienna R. Craig's journey as an anthropologist and writer, focusing on her experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand and their influence on her creative expression, particularly through poetry. Topics include her personal evolution from California to Nepal to New Zealand, the intersection of anthropology and creative writing in her work, and the thematic exploration of colonial legacies, cultural identity, and environmental challenges in her poetry.

This paper investigates largely unexplored aspects of the postwar Japanese media industry by tracing the cross-media developments that bloomed from a single poem written by an elementary school girl. Tomo Fusako, a poor elementary school student, wrote the poem "Outage" in 1951 as part of her schoolwork. Tomo's teacher, Bessho Yasoji, selected Tomo's work to be published in an original poetry journal featuring children's writing. Her poems and essays were eventually reprinted in magazines, collected volumes, and even published in textbooks. In 1958, Fujimoto Giichi, an unknown university student at the time, adapted "Outage" into a radio drama and stage play. These works were then further adapted for TV dramas. Children's essays and poems made for attractive content for the publishing industry and the emerging fields of commercial radio and television media. Fujimoto himself became a famous television host, though it impeded his literary career. Examining Tomo and Fujimoto's relationship with literary production and media adaptation reveals a cultural world far removed from the literary establishment's (that is, the bundan's) view of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In contrast to previous centuries, where children and their literature were not considered important, they are now recognized as significant. Meanwhile, literature, as one of the contexts that connect children to the world around them, is now more intertwined with their childish feelings, pleasure, and desires. In literature, poetry holds a special place, and when it comes to children’s poetry, it requires a delicate approach due to its specific standards. The present study aims to analyze children and childhood stages in two poetic works for children, while evaluating their poetic characteristics according to the theoretical standards of children’s poetry. The research method employed in this study is analytical, and data is collected through library research. The findings of the study suggest that the analyzed works do not take into account children’s feelings and desires. Instead, adult themes are imposed upon children’s texts. The works also disregard the standards of children’s poetry, lacking in children’s poetic language and imagination in both content and form. Additionally, the use of multiple symbols, ironies, and didactic language are among the characteristics observed in the two poetic works published in Southern Kurdistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry that originated with Black poets in Jamaica, Britain, and Canada. It is accompanied by rhythmical accentuation and gesticulation while performing in front of the audience. This study analyses the children's dub poetry of the contemporary Black British poet Benjamin Zephaniah to highlight the unique characteristics that make his poetry more appealing to children. This is accomplished through an ecocritical reading of his early children's poems, which highlight his biocentric attitude and revolutionary stance against any form of anthropocentrism. The study demonstrates that Zephaniah is an eco-writer who has an effective method of engaging children with his poetry in both its forms, oral and printed, through his performative techniques, rhetorical strategies, humorous style, and serious cosmopolitan topics in the belief that poetry is political and poets should be activists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Janusz Minkiewicz was an excellent poet, satirist, translator, contributor to many important periodicals, friend of Tuwim and Brzechwa, author of famous satires and political cribs, but also of numerous works for children and translator. His first translation published in book form appeared after the war, quickly gaining a circle of enthusiasts, both among children and adults. To date, more than a dozen titles intended for a young audience have been published, the vast majority of which have been reprinted many times. Minkiewicz translated mainly from Russian, but his translation output also included English poetry, German or Italian. The paper -- the result of a search conducted at the Polish Writers Donation Library, at the State Archive in Warsaw, at the Nasza Księgarnia and at the Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Warsaw -- is the first attempt to look at Janusz Minkiewicz's translation output addressed to young readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Mary Ann and Perry Hoberman, a mother-son duo who collaborated on their first children's book, "Away with Words." They discuss their decision to work together, the process of illustrating the poems, and the importance of diverse representation in their book and they also share their experiences sharing the book with children and their plans for future collaborations.

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Литература для детей – целый пласт коми литературы, который на сегодняшний день является мало изученным. Существуют критические статьи, в которых раскрывается тематическое и образное своеобразие поэтических произведений для детей, но нет отдельных работ, в которых стихотворения коми поэтов рассматривались бы с точки зрения их субъектной организации. Научная новизна данного исследования заключается в подходе к анализу стихотворений Н. Щукина – коми детского поэта – с точки зрения их субъектной организации. На основе анализа литературного материала установлено, что в его творчестве преобладающими формами выражения авторского сознания являются лирический герой и предметно-поэтический мир. Для детской поэзии коми поэта свойственен такой лирический герой, в котором отражается и детское, и взрослое начало, но с очевидным доминированием взрослого. Лирический герой – это человек, для которого детские впечатления становятся воспоминаниями во взрослой жизни. На то, что в стихотворениях преобладает взрослое начало, указывает временной фактор: через глаголы отражается единство настоящего с прошлым. В ходе анализа установлено, что лирический герой занимает определенное, но не преобладающее положение. В детской поэзии Н. Щукина основной формой выражения авторского сознания становится предметно-поэтический мир. Особенностью стихотворений становится то, что поэт сосредотачивает внимание маленьких читателей на открытии простой и неброской красоты северной природы. Однако прием метафорического одушевления природных явлений, использование глаголов и звуковая оркестровка произведений создают образ живой природы, что дает возможность детям почувствовать, ощутить и услышать окружающий их мир. Поэтический мир как способ выражения авторского сознания в детской лирике Н. Щукина проявляется и в стихотворениях, основанных на художественных приемах фольклорной жанровой формы – загадки. В данных поэтических произведениях предметы даются в ярких, выразительных, но в то же время понятных детям деталях, соотносимых с его жизненным опытом в родном краю.

Curating diverse classroom libraries has been an explicit goal of many educators for some time now. A Google search for 'diverse classroom libraries' yields over forty-seven million results in half [...]

This article presents contemporary Judeo-Spanish poetry for children in the context of the postvernacular mode (when the language is not used any more in everyday communication) of the language. It discusses the poetry collections of three authors who have published Judeo-Spanish poems in the twenty-first century: Ada Gattegno-Saltiel, Avner Perez, and Sarah Aroeste, as well as the project Yeladino, which is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish translations of Hebrew poems. It analyses the books and projects in terms of their subject matter, language, and poetic devices, as well as the relation of some of them with music, theatre-music performance, and educational activities. The paper raises the question of audience of this poetry, allowing for the fact that nowadays there are no children learning Judeo-Spanish as their first language, and that the language itself is considered severely endangered. The paper states the presence of the dual address in these books, i.e. to children and adults, both on the level of implied and real audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates largely unexplored aspects of the postwar Japanese media industry by tracing the cross-media developments that bloomed from a single poem written by an elementary school girl. Tomo Fusako, a poor elementary school student, wrote the poem “Outage” in 1951 as part of her schoolwork. Tomo’s teacher, Bessho Yasoji, selected Tomo’s work to be published in an original poetry journal featuring children’s writing. Her poems and essays were eventually reprinted in magazines, collected volumes, and even published in textbooks. In 1958, Fujimoto Giichi, an unknown university student at the time, adapted “Outage” into a radio drama and stage play. These works were then further adapted for TV dramas. Children’s essays and poems made for attractive content for the publishing industry and the emerging fields of commercial radio and television media. Fujimoto himself became a famous television host, though it impeded his literary career. Examining Tomo and Fujimoto’s relationship with literary production and media adaptation reveals a cultural world far removed from the literary establishment’s (that is, the bundan’s) view of literature.

In 1977, the NCTE Excellence in Children's Poetry Award Committee was created to recognize the work of outstanding poets who write for children. Since then, in addition to naming an [...]