Have you ever wondered why you fell in love with the picturebooks by Kęstutis Kasparavičius ? Sandra Leticia Oropeza Palafox and Betül Gaye Dinç seeks an answer to this question in the Hans Christen Andersen Awards nominee spotlight in partnership with Evelyn Arizpe and the Erasmus Mundus programme, the International Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture (IMCLMC). You can read the complete post on IBBY UK's website . © Kęstutis Kasparavičius, 2011, Wikipedia

How would you represent this satyr mask from Roman period, Anatolia (2–3th century BC), Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection in your picturebook? How do museums or artists utilise nonfiction picturebooks to create multimodal engagements with art? Abstract This chapter analyses nonfiction picturebooks that ease children’s interactions in art museums as they practice meaning-making of the artworks. First, it examines relations between museums and picturebooks to explain art. Seco

"Ambassador's Map" is a picturebook project that foster children's engagements with Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Orientalist Paintings Collection in Pera Museum. Abstract This study examines how an interactive picturebook prototype facilitates children's exposure to a museum collection of artworks presenting cultural heritage in Istanbul, Turkey. Picturebooks foster children's creative, cultural, and critical explorations in museums. Many Human-Computer Interaction studie

Fırat Yaşa's graphic novel "Tepe (The Hill)" is a call for everyone to demand the human and animal rights with an imaginative journey in prehistory! ©Frank Samol, Unsplash Göbeklitepe is an archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, South East of Turkey. The archaeological excavations present a construction of circular-design and T shaped stone pillars built with basic stone tools in Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE. It is the earliest example of such archi

How can interactive technology enhance children’s literature? How can new materials and technology be incorporated into courses on children’s literature at university level feeding upon the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)? What is the best way to embed new materials such as paper circuits into a children’s narrative? Abstract This article offers a review of an experiment conducted at a liberal arts college where students were provided the theoretical and practice-based kno

Over forty years, Bülent Arabacıoğlu's Tipip comics on bubble-gum wrappers has created a legacy in comics with impact on children's literacy and entertainment in Turkey. © Bülent Arabacıoğlu Our research, which is named as "Illustrating Tipitip bubblegum comics in Turkey: Transformation, outreach, humour and literacy engagement", makes an overview of the evolution of Tipitip bubblegum comics in Turkey, studying its impact on society especially on children for more than four d