special issues

This special issue assembles five articles written by renowned scholars working in the realm of children's films. They address the moving media language from a picturebook to a short film by a thorough analysis of Shaun Tan's "The Lost Thing", the relationship between elder quests and kid ventures, the conceptions of nation and ethnicity in Swedish children's films, the politics of innocence in Disney's animation films, the significance of paratexts and the concept of meta-filmic awareness.

This special issue of the IBBY journal "Bookbird" assembles six articles written by renowned scholars working in the realm of multilingual studies and children's literature research. Topics covered are the significance of indigenous bilingual children's books in Australia and New Zealand, the impact of bilingualism on literacy education, and code-switching in multilingual picturebooks.

This special issue brings together scholars from different countries, Ruth Bottigheimer, Peter Hunt, Maria Nikolajeva, Jean Perrot, and Zohar Shavit, amongst others, who highlight the importance of comparative children's literature research.