Beverley Naidoo and Shereen Pandit
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Rudine Sims Bishop
Contemporary African American Children’s Literature: Continuity and Change
Jackie Kay
Poem
Beverley Naidoo
‘My Child State’: Jamila Gavin in Conversation
Radhika Menon and Sandhya Rao
Text in Context: The Culture and Politics of Stereotyping in Children’s Books
Susmita Bhattacharya
Fiction: The Child Goddess
Debjani Chatterjee
Poems
Elsa Marston
Palestinians in Fiction for Young People
Ibtisam Barakat
Fiction: Pierre
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Poem
Shereen Pandit
‘A Lifetime in Books’: Dianne Case in Conversation
Gabisile Lucy Dladla
Poem
Véronique Tadjo
Creating Books for Children in Francophone Africa and Beyond: A Personal Experience
C J Onyia
Fiction: The Tree
When We Were Young: Thirteen Makers of Books for Children Recall their Own Experiences of Entering Stories
Meshak Asare, Deborah Ellis, Mary Hoffman, Catherine Johnson, Elizabeth Laird, Errol Lloyd, Ana Maria Machado, Sumiko Moriuchi, Ifeoma Onyefulu, Bali Rai, Verna Wilkins, Ken Wilson-Max and Benjamin Zephaniah
John Agard
Poems
Grace Nichols
Poems
Reviews
Rosemary Stones
Review Essay: Multicultural Publishing in Britain: How Did it Happen?
Kimberley Reynolds
Clare Bradford, Kerry Mallan, John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, ed Contemporary Children’s Literature: Utopian Transformations
Phyllis Ramage
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Representing Africa: Old and New Ways of Seeing
Karen Sands-O’Connor Soon Come Home to this Island: West Indians in British Children’s Literature
Madelyn Travis
Christine Wilkie-Stibbs The Outside Child In and Out of the Book
Alan Gibbons
Elizabeth Laird Lost Riders
Lily Hyde Dreamland
Anna Perera Guantanamo Boy
Valerie Coghlan
Siobhan Dowd Bog Child and Solace of the Road
Geraldine Brennan
Catherine Johnson A Nest of Vipers
Sarah Mussi The Last of the Warrior Kings
Kathleen T Horning
Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
An Na The Fold
Jacqueline Woodson After Tupac and D Foster
Mayra Lazara Dole Down to the Bone
Dianne Hofmeyr
Meshak Asare The Cross Drums
Na’ima B Robert From Somalia With Love
Bernard Ashley Angel Boy
Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young Gervelie’s Journey
Margot Hillel
Shaun Tan The Arrival
Liz Lofthouse Ziba Came on a Boat
Ann Lazim
Twelve Dancing Princesses by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Rachel Isadora
Rachel Isadora The Princess and the Pea
The Fisherman and his Wife by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Rachel Isadora
Niki Daly Pretty Salma
Patricia Storace Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel
Deela Khan
Diana Hendry and Hamish Whyte, ed Poems United: A Commonwealth Anthology
Naomi Shihab Nye Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose
