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The IRSCL Board has decided that the 2013 IRSCL Congress will be held in Maastricht, our first Congress in the Netherlands. Look for further information on this site. The convenor of the Congress is Lies Wesseling, Maastricht University.

For the Paper Call and information about the 2011 IRSCL Congress in Brisbane, please go to the Congress website: http://irscl2011.com/

Our member Sonia Loidl has translated a selection of IRCL abstracts from English to German. These abstracts are available through the IRCL page of this website. Click on ‘Abstracts’ and you will find translations of abstracts from Volumes 1.1, 1.2  and 2.1.

Congratulations to Ukrainian scholars in children’s literature, who have established the Ukrainian Research Center for Children’s and Youth Literature, based in Lviv. This new organisation plans to support research in children’s literature through conferences, symposia and many other activities. The first President of the new Research Center is IRSCL member Ulyana Hnidets. Well done and [...]

The Australian journal Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature has been in operation since 1990. It has now become an open-access, online journal, available through its own website. We intend to gradually upload past issues in the Archives section of the website. Papers is a peer-refereed journal which accepts scholarly submissions on any aspect of children’s [...]

Report on 19th IRSCL Congress, Frankfurt, Germany Children’s Literature and Cultural Diversity in the Past and the Present 8 – 12 August 2009 The 19th IRSCL Congress was held, fittingly, in the city and the institution where the Frankfurt Colloquium was held forty years ago in 1969, when participants from five countries elected a committee [...]

Under the directorship of Alida Allison, the Book Review Service of the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature (San Diego State University) reviews current children’s books and maintains an archive of past review. Some 90 new reviews by faculty and students have just been posted.

Researchers in children’s literature are welcome to apply for a Research Grant of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at the Berlin State Library, Unter den Linden, Berlin. The book collection of the Children’s and Young People’s Book Department at Berlin State Library is one of the largest and best in Europe, with particular strengths in [...]

At the IRSCL General Membership meeting in Frankfurt, a new Board was voted in: President Clare Bradford, Australia Board Mavis Reimer, Canada: Vice-President and Treasurer Hélène Ehriander, Sweden: Awards and Grants Coordinator Hans-Heino Ewers, Germany: Liaison with children’s literature national/regional associations Kerry Mallan, Australia: Convenor of the 2011 IRSCL Conference in Brisbane, Australia, 2011 Rose-May [...]

Congratulations to Kimberley Reynolds, who recently won the Children’s Literature Association Book Award for her 2007 book, Radical Children’s Literature:  Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction. Clare Bradford’s Unsettling Narratives:  Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature (2007) was named an Honor Book.