Nr. 2-2021 Virikkeitä / English edition
This issue is about bilingual reading, and diversity in children's...
Lehti 2021, nro 2
Some Words about Diversity in Children’s Literature
Text: Alexandra Salmela. Every society is diverse, as it has been throughout the history, although possibly in a different manner than nowadays. What is really...
Books for the Children of the World
Text: Tuula Pere. An independent publisher has the freedom to try to reach even the children of the world – after all, at her own risk. Implementing the...
Family Secret: Spanish Children and Young Literature in Finland
Text: Laura Gazzotti. In the summer of 2015, we visited a beloved Finnish-Chilean family in Turku. A must stop was the children’s section of the Turku...
The Invisible Elephant
Text: Anna Anisimova. Eight years ago, in 2013, my first book was published. It was a short story titled The invisible elephant. I wrote the text in Saint...
DRIN – Visions for Children’s Books
Equal participation is a key question facing Europe’s increasingly diverse societies. The project DRIN addresses the need to empower and enable everyone to...
When representation is not enough
Text: Warda Ahmed. Children’s literature had been close to my heart long before I had my own children. The stories of my childhood and the magic of my books...
Bilingual Experience without Barriers
Text: Tuula Pere. KidiKunst is a French children’s book publisher from Alsace specializing in bilingual books with a new concept. In their books, the...