NO.14 July 2005

The 20th Anniversary of the Founding of IICLO
May 5, 2004 marked the 20th anniversary of the opening
of IICLO.

the Fox”, a tour of IICLO’s stacks (not usually open to the

The ceremony to celebrate the event began at

public) was held and there was a corner where children

1:00 p.m. under fair skies cleared by a refreshing early

could try out the new offerings on IICLO’s internet site:summer breeze.

An opening address by IICLO Director

the search system “A Great Adventure on the Sea of Books”

NAKAGAWA Masafumi was followed by further words of（ http://kids.iiclo.or.jp/ ） and the digital museum

welcome by Mr. TAKEUCHI Osamu, Chairman of the“Children’s Books: Now and Long Ago”.

Board of Education representing Osaka Prefecture, founder（http://museum.iiclo.or.jp/）.

of our facilities.

After these speeches Mr. KOMINE Norio,

chairman of the Japanese Association of Children’s Book
Publishers, offered words of congratulations and waspresented by IICLO with a testimonial of thanks. A list ofbooks purchased with money collected by members ofrelated societies and volunteer groups and donated to
IICLO was handed personally to Director Nakagawa by Mr.
HARA Sho, Chairman of the Japan Society for Children’s
Literature.
After the completion of the celebration ceremony,
picture book author KAKO Satoshi, known for his sciencepicture books, and philosopher TSURUMI Shunsukepresented a lecture.

Mr. MATSUI Tadashi, consultant at

Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc., joined them for a
symposium on the theme “The Future of Children’s Books”.
An audience greatly exceeding the seating capacity of 150
gathered to listen raptly to this meeting of leading
authorities in their various fields.
Some programs for children to enjoy were held on thesame day, in addition to the events for adults. There wasa storytelling meeting on the theme “Asian Stories”, anamateur theatre group performed a puppet show “Hoity,

1The Director’s Opening Address in
Summary

Reform of the Foreign Researchers
Fellowship Program

The International Institute for Children’s Literature,

Since 1989 IICLO, with the support of businesses in

Osaka, opened its doors just twenty years ago on May 5,

the Osaka region and Osaka Prefecture’s Board of

1984. Since then, about 1,470,000 people have made use of

Education, has administered the Foreign Researchers

our facilities, and our collection of materials has increased

Fellowship Program, giving researchers, writers, andfrom 120,000 items at the beginning, to over 700,000 items

editors involved in children’s literature the opportunity toat the present time. This has been possible entirely as amake use of the institute’s facilities to engage in research

result of the efforts of our many supporters, and I would

for designated periods of time.

like to express my heartfelt thanks to these people.

During the fifteen years

this program has been in effect researchers from twenty-six

Beginning with the Board of Education of Osakacountries, about forty-one in number, have not only

Prefecture, founder of our facilities; the publishers andcontinued to advance studies and activities in children’s

private individuals who have continued to donate numerous

literature and culture after returning to their own countries,

books and related materials to IICLO since it started;but have also kept alive the connections they made during

Nissan Motors, Ltd., sponsor of the Children’s Storybook

their time with us at IICLO, thus continuing internationaland Picture Book Grand Prix inaugurated to commemorate

exchanges with the Japan’s world of children’s literature.

our opening; the Kinran-Kai Foundation co-sponsor of theWith the success of this program as a base, theInternational Brothers Grimm Award; institutions andinstitute is drawing up plans for the development of a new

representatives of industry and commerce who haveprogram of international exchange.

supported our visiting fellows in various ways; the libraries,

A summary of the newprogram follows below.

large and small, the many volunteers who have supported
our activities so warmly; related groups and institutions(Substance of the change)

abroad; and the countless others who have generously given

The previous Long-term Research Fellowship programof their influence and expertise—I would like to take thiswill be discontinued.

opportunity to extend my sincere gratitude.

Fellowship program will be offered for candidates from a

Many

Instead, a new Short-term Researchchanges have taken place at IICLO since our instituteparticular country or region to be selected each year.

opened twenty years ago, but we hope to continue our

These researchers, writers, or editors will be invited fordevelopment to become the main center for research,

events to be held during a period of one to two weeks.

information, and materials related to children’s literature

In accordance with this change IICLO will no longer

in Asia.

advertise for Foreign Research Fellows.

The importance of reading is being recognized on anational level and all the staff at IICLO will extend every(Substance of the new activities)

effort to make use of the experience and background wez

An international symposium will be held.

have

z

The collected reports and related papers given at theaccumulated

throughouractivities

relatedtochildren’s literature and culture to address issues and takesymposium will be published.

on projects to meet newly recognized needs as they becomezapparent.

Pamphlets introducing works of children’s literatureon the selected country or region will be created.

Thank you again for your generous cooperation, and Izwould like to ask, too, for your continuing support.

Events for children will be held relating to children’s
literature of the selected country or region.
The Republic of Korea is the country selected for 2005.

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2. Symposium Proceedings

Future countries or regions will be announced after they

We published a booklet entitled "Aspects of Ethnicity inhave been chosen.

Picture Books," containing three proposals made during the
symposium, attended by about 200 participants, which was

Although the details of our international exchange
activities have changed, our basic concept of furthering

held on the last day of the session.

research in children’s culture and children’s literature andmade the proposals were Mr. LEE Uk Bae, one of thein furthering international exchange through children’s

leading picture book authors in Korea, Professor HUNG

books remains the same.

Wen-Ching from Taitung University of Taiwan, and Mr.

We look forward to yourAmong those who

Kuroi Ken, an illustrator and president of Japan Children's

continued widespread support and cooperation.

Book Artists Society.

Report on the Seventh AsianChildren's Literature Convention

The booklet is printed in 4

languages: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English.

【Table of Contents】
LEE Uk Bae

The Seventh Asian Children's Literature Convention was"Traditional Culture and My Picture Book"

HUNG Wen-Ching

held in Nagoya-city and Oshima-machi from August 4th to"Cultural Situations as Reflected in

Taiwanese Picture Books"

August 8th. IICLO supported the convention as a means of

KUROI Kenpromoting the study of children's literature and cultural"Picture Books and Nationality: Should

Picture Books Have Racial Characters?"

exchanges among Asian countries, carrying out thefollowing three projects.

3. Exhibition of Picture Books from Korea and Taiwan
We started an exhibition of Asian Picture Books at our

1. Special Grants
We offered grants to those who read superior papers at

institute in Suita-shi, Osaka, from July 1st. Through thisthe convention. A jury organized by IICLO chose fivedisplay we were able to introduce the latest picture books

recipients from among the 26 presenters.

from Korea and Taiwan to Japanese children.

After theexhibition closes in September, we lent it, along withPARK Sang-Jae (Korea)

Japanese translations of the books, to libraries and"Recollection of Fantasy Novels for Children in Korea andelementary schools to be used in their reading activities.

their Challenges"
HSIEH Hung-Wen (Taiwan)"Alienated Masterpieces: A Strange Phenomenon in theReading Public of Taiwanese Children's Literature"
Jambyn DASHDONDOG (Mongolia)"It is Great to Have Ice Cream in Hot Summer Time But It would not be Better than to Read Picture Books"
POON Ming Chu (Hong Kong)"Hong Kong Children's Literature in Trying Times"
CHENG Shi-Qing (China)"An Approach to a Marketing Model of Juvenile
Newspapers and Periodicals"

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The Study in Children’s Literature in
Asian Countries

3.

I would like to introduce a book titled “Journey to theWest” in English. I think this is the greatest novel forchildren, though it has never been defined as a book in
the children's literature category.

As reported above, IICLO offered special grants to
those who read superior papers at the Asian Children’s
Literature

Convention.

Thewinners described

4.

the

Recently I have paid fairly close attention to thesituation of children’s literature in their countries focusing

problem of the relation of children's literature andon the following points.

morals models. I do not think the starting point in thecreation of children's literature should be to limit itself to★

1.

1. The situation of children’s reading activities

enlightening children through education, intentionally

2. The situation of the study of children’s literature

avoiding the negative side of real life. This could only

3. A recommended books for foreign people amonglead to falsities because of the absence of a sense ofrecent children’s books published originally in theirreality, causing children to lose their trust in what theycountries

read.

The result would be the complete lose of have any

4. Their recent interests regarding children’s literature

positive guiding functions

CHENG Shiqing (China): Deputy Chairman of China★

Worker's Association

Chairman

of

Hong

Kong

Children’s reading activities in China are alsoChildren’s

Arts

Society,Vicecompacted by electronic media such as TV, Internet, etc.

Chairmanofso that the time that children spend on reading is

Literature Association

generally decreasing.

Pearl

Ming-Chu

Asian

POON:

Children

The kinds of reading materials
1.

popular among children in China depend on their age:

Some interesting figures below may provide a little

younger children like cartoons better, while older

picture of children’s reading behavior in Hong Kongchildren are more interested in adventure, mysteries(Kam-Ying POON, 1997).

The China

a. Reading of newspapers – 82.5% out of 3000 students

Worker's Association of Children's Newspapers andhave a habit of reading newspapers. (Please note that

Periodicals in Beijing, has launched the activity of "only few newspapers have children’s pages or columns.)

Reading for Ten Minutes Every Day ", in order tob. Visits to a library for leisure reading – about 80% of theand works which reflect campus life.

children replied they visited the library once or twice a

promote reading activities of children in China.

week.
2.

In my opinion, the study of children's literature is stillc. Average amount of leisure time – Hong Kong children

at a kind of “representation and sum up” stage, lacking

have a heavy workload of homework, and on average,

real academic demonstration.

they have 4.51 hours of leisure time.

In China at present,

Most spend about

there are several universities, such as Beijing Normal

2.21 hours watching TV, and the remaining time in other

University, Normal University of Shanghai, Zhejiang

activities including reading.
d. Most popular books among children – According to public

Normal University, Northeastern Normal University,

libraryetc., that offer Master of Arts or doctorial courses.

information,

the

most

popularbooks

respectively comics, fairy tales, quiz, and fables.

4areGovernmental organizations that help in promoting

memorial year of the birth of Master Andersen, shallchildren’s reading activities are (1) Hong Kong Public

we writers of children literature join to rejoice andLibraries, which have launched a yearlong Reading

encourage one another and to insist on writing more

Programme for Children and Youth since 1984. (2)and more good works for children?

Hong Kong Education City Ltd which provides on-line
reading activities via its web site www.hkedcity.net★Jambyn DASHDONDOG (Mongolia) : Writer, Researcher,

The contents include books reviews and writers’ column

Chairman of Mongolian Children’s Cultural Foundation

etc.

(Ming-Chu POON Writer’s Page:

1.

www.smallcampus.net/writer2)

There was no children’s library in Mongolia for the
past ten years. The Mongolian Children’s Cultural

Other cultural organizations are (1) Hong Kong

Foundation (MCCF) initiated the idea of establishing aChildren’s Arts Society which is devoted to the promotion

children’s library and proposed this as an addition to theofelectionchildrenliterature.

(2)

Hong

Kong

Reading

programoftheMongolian

People’s

Association which promotes extensive reading in both

Revolutionary Party (MPRP). Including this idea inEnglish and Chinese.

MPRP’s election program the party decided to establish
children’s library as a part of the National Library when

2.

3.

The University of Hong Kong, Chinese University andthey won the election and came in power in 2000.

HK Baptist University provide master or doctorial

Though the children’s library was established, it iscourses of literature, but not particularly for children’s

still not enough to supply the needs of all the children.

literature.

At present, the schools of education in theSome schools have their own libraries, but their books

universities above offer courses for teachers to study

are not up to date and they have only a few books fromchildren’s literature for teaching purposes.

the socialist regime before the 1990s.
As I really worry about this situation I have started“Owl Story” published by Agriculture, Fisheries andto collect funding to establish a children’s library, which

Conservation Department of Hong Kong, tells thewill be the center for the promotion of reading among

adventure story of an owl living in a country park ofHong Kong.

children in Mongolia.

Through the eyes of the little hero,establish such a center” during the interview of NHK

children readers are able to enjoy intimate encounterswith me, aired on the NHK program “Who is who inof their natural companions, and learn to cherish andAsia?”

foster love for the environment. This is the first story

I am so happy that Japanese people, who are very

written locally with a lot of information collected aboutkind and love children, sent me some money for

actual nature of Hong Kong, and it has been selected as

establishing the library.

a recommended book for Nature Series 2004. (Bookcover enclosed.

Author: Ming-Chu Poon)2.

For the last ten years Mongolian children’s literature
has been stagnant.

4.

I said “I cannot die until I

This is because of the lack of

There has been muchchildren’s book on the one hand, and few classes inprogress in the writing ofchildren’s literature in universities and institutes on thechildren’s literature sinceother.

Hans Christian Andersen

literature is less recognized than other classes. So do

wrote

timelessfight this approach. No one has taken a masters andmasterpieces more than adoctors degree in children’s literature during the past ten

century ago. In this 200thyears.

his

5

There is a certain approach that children’s

3.

I have published some of my books such as “Tales onchildren’s reading.

horseback”, “Stone legends”, “Camel with seven humps”
privately in English.

I have sent you them by mail.

2.

The Graduate Institute of Children's Literature of
Taitung University is the only academic research

4.

During the socialist regime we had only one

organization of children's literature in Taiwan.

It issues

methodology for literature and that was socialist

Children's Literature Academy Periodical, seeks andrealism.

collects historical data; sponsors commissions, activities,

Today we try to write children’s books todevelop children’s mind set and books with a certain
philosophic tone.

etc. related to children's literature.

We consider that certain reforms in

Mongolian children’s literature are needed through3.

Xin Yi Young Children's Literature Award winner,

findings from research in different methodologies of

CHEN Zhi-Yuan was born in 1975. In 2004, his picture

literatures.

book Guji Guji mounted to the Top 10 of the New YorkTimes list of best selling books. This is the first such
★HSIEH Hung-Wen (Taiwan, R.O.C): Graduate student ofrecognition for a work of children's literature created byresearch institute of literature of Fo Kong University
1.

In Taiwan, children and teenagers who like readinga Taiwanese writer.

Guji Guji narrates a crocodile's

friendship with ducks.

He was born in a duck's family.

cartoons and watching TV decreased for a long time, andFrom then on, he thought that he was a duck, and living

their ability to read and write was declining.

as a duck, he helped protect the ducks from the terrible

So in 2000

ZENG Zh-Lang, then the Superintendent of Education,

crocodiles.

advocated starting a children’s reading movement, which

metaphor and symbolism to explore the theme of

instantly spread nationwide. Schoolteachers and local

ethnicity and how to live peacefully, a serious problem incommunities

Taiwan now.

took

children’s reading.

allresponsibility

forpromotingHe writes in a humorous style and uses

People a little like “storytellingmothers” ran about with picture books in their hands to4.

Recently, I am trying to write a History of Children’s

Literature in Taoyuan County. Taoyuan County, one ofinitiate children in the pleasure of reading.
In addition to the program initiated by the Ministry of

the important places in the development of children's

Education, the Government Information Office launched

literature in Taiwan, has accumulated a wealth ofan annual program to select and promote quality

literary assets and merits attention. This thesis is about

extracurricular reading materials for primary andthe developing panorama of children's literature on

secondary school students every year. This plan promotes

Taoyuan County.

the progress of children' s books publishers and

IICLO’s RESEARCH PROJECTS“Babies and Picture Books”
Symposium Heldreported on its most recent
results.

Librarians, publichealth workers, caregivers,
volunteers,

A research project to study babies and picture books

andothersOn July 19, 2004, a

involved in work related tosymposium was held at the same time that the project team‘babies’ and ‘picture books’

began at IICLO in April 2002.

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met to discuss the problems they share and to reach acaregivers, with references to Fujii’s own child-rearing

mutual understanding of their respective situations.

experiences.

The

The report included a description of unique

symposium was a great success with one hundred seventy

features and picture book selections of the Kumatori-cho

people taking part.

Book Start Program, and examples of how the library madeThere was a lively debate on such

topics as “How to choose picture books for babies”, “How toa follow-up after the start of the program.

read picture books for babies”, and “reports on field
activities”. In March 2005, a record of the event’s reports,

TOKUNAGA Mari

proposals, and discussions was published in a report in“Introducing Picture Books to Infants at Nursery School

Japanese.

(Osanago Nursery School; Director)

Based on experiences of reading aloud to children of【Keynote report】

many ages, points of importance to be taken into

KOMORI Nobuko (researcher of IICLO, Picture Book

consideration during this activity, such as how infants

Project leader)relate to picture books, characteristics of infants’ enjoyment“A report on the findings of field research on babies andof picture books, were described making use of a video.

picture books”
This was a report on the findings of a questionnaire and【Commentary】

interviews of caregivers in Osaka Prefecture of infants from

SASAKI Hiroko (Naruto University of Education; professor)

0 to l year in age regarding the relationship of infants toAfter commenting on the presentations of the threebooks,

caregiver’s

thoughts

onpicturebooks,

thespeakers, she analyzed the present-day situation of therelationship of children and picture books.

babies and picturebooks, concluding that opportunities forparents and children to interact (subjectively) have

【Exhibition of 1343 Picture Books for Babies】

decreased.

To take a lesson from this situation, she

Based on publishers’ catalogues of November 2003, books

suggested that the question ‘How should we support

listed as being for children under two years of age, or books

parents and children?’ is an important starting point when

listed as being ‘for babies’, were displayed.

evaluating and considering the Book Start program.

【The Symposium】
KISHIMOTO Yukie (Tsurumi Ward Public Health andWelfare Center; health worker)“Osaka City’s Book Start Program as Seen by the Healthand Welfare Center”
Details about the start up and the activities of Osaka
City’s “Book Start Program”, inaugurated in August 2003
were described.

Though the program has been underway“A Great Adventure on the Sea ofBooks” a report on the use of thechildren’s library search systemless than a year library users have increased and generally
the program can be said to be a success.

As its name suggests, the
FUJII Akiko(Kumatori-cho Library; librarian)unique quality of this system“Kumatori-cho Library’s Services for Babies”

isA look at the reasons and motivations for the approachthatchildren

using

it

experience an ocean adventure

taken by the library in creating its services for babies and

as
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they

make

their

book

search.

system through responses such as:“It was so much fun

To see if IICLO’s intention has been achieved of creatingthat I tried it at home with my brother and we made lots ofa system where ‘children’s reading skills will be enrichedsearches together”, “I was really surprised at the variety ofwhen they are offered an enjoyable book search’ we willbooks.

take a look at how the system was used in an elementarywant to try to make a search at home, reserve a book, andschool class.

then borrow it”, “I want to try to open the system at home if

Please keep offering this system”, “Next time I

I can”, and “I want to try this again”.
[How the system was use in a 3rd grade Japanese language

There were also a lot of comments like “I didn’t realize

class]

there were so many kinds of books!” about the abundance ofDuring the class the children were given the following

books to choose from. Positive comments about the booktasks:

search game were also conspicuous:

1) They had to use Adventure on the Sea of Books to find agreat that by playing the game I was able to find a lot ofbook they wanted to read.

“I thought it wasbooks I wanted to read”, “I thought it was fantastic that a2) They had to actually get the book and read it.

book that was just right for me would appear through3) They had to write their impressions of the book theyplaying a game”, “Usually a homepage about books only hasread down and tell their friends.

books, but this page has a game”, “Even though it was the
As a result of focusing

first time I had tried it, it was really interesting because it

the children’s efforts on

was easy, the sound effects were good, and it was like going

specific tasks in a book

exploring in the sea” , “I thought it was great that I was

searchable to look for a book that was right for me. I want to use

that

was

subjectiveandstudents

were

both
active,able

this system again”.

to

We also received the following positive comment fromachieve a high level ofthe teacher:“Students who had previously only readconcentration at each stage: choosing a book that was ofbooks introduced by the librarian, or only from a particularparticular interest to them and reading it (reading);

series, or who had only shown an interest in picture books,

organizing their impressions (writing); presenting theirwere able to encounter books completely different from theimpressions

ones they usually read.”(speaking);

listening

to

their

friends’

presentations (listening).
Children’s responses to a questionnaire after the classincluded a great number of very positive comments such as:“I thought the system was really handy for searching forbooks,” or “I thought it was a great page because I could
learn a lot about books,” that show the interest of thechildren in the system.
We were able to confirm indications that children wereenjoying the experience of searching for books, and to
predict that many children will become repeat users of the8

MAJOUR EVENTS OF APRIL, 2004〜March, 2005
Winners of the 21st Nissan

books.

Children’s Storybook and PictureBook Grand Prix Chosen

ReportA report summing up the results of the 2004 joint

Winners of the 21st The Nissan Children’s Storybook andresearch project on infants and picture books was published

Picture Book Grand Prix, sponsored by IICLO with thein March 2005 (in Japanese only). The table of contents is

co-operation of Nissan Motors, have been chosen and theas follows:awards ceremony was held at the Institute’s lecture hall on

KOMORI Nobuko

February 13, 2005. The following two works were chosen

and picture books available in Osaka area” “The meaning offrom 2,567 volumes submitted in the Storybook Category

reading infant picture books as seen from a study ofand 801 volumes submitted in the Picture Book Category.

interviews (with caregivers)”

Both works will be published by BL Publishers in December

NAGATA Keiko “The meaning of picture books for2005.
In the Storybook Category:

infants of Zero, One, and Two years of age—based on“The 7th Page is a Secret!”

research examples”

by YAMASHITA Nami
In the Picture Book Category:“A study of services related to infants

KUBOTA Misuzu“The White Road”“Picture book illustrations exhibitionsand visual expression—focusing on picture books for infants

by MARUOKA Shinichi

aged two and under” “An essay: the voice of the readers

Activities of Former Research Fellows

enjoying

picture

books

and

the

devicesforvisualstructure—from the examples of the picture books in Osaka

Our 40th Research Fellow, Prasansa KALUKOTTEGE,

area”

who was at IICLO from March—August, 2003, is now backIn addition, the detailed case book about readinghome in Sri Lanka where she is joining forces withpromotion for infants in Osaka area was published.

members of the Japanese volunteer group the Society to Aid
Support Education in Sri Lanka, to promote picture books
while also running a nursery school.

As a lecturer she is

A Selection of 100 JapaneseChildren’s Books

introducing the wonders of picture books to care givers at
reading-aloud training courses. At the same time she is

At IICLO we view writings for children as cultural

also inviting Japanese lecturers (authors and editors) tomaterials and have been recording commentaries andgive workshops to train picture book authors, acting as abridge between students and lecturers.

bibliographies of these with the intention of making them

As a result ofavailable to the next generation both at home and abroadthese workshops, two Singhalese picture books were
published in November 2004.

as "A Selection of One Hundred Japanese Children's Books".

Plans are underway for

In 2005, the latter half of this record (1946-1979) was put

these books to be published in Tamil and English, too.

up on our homepage.

The tsunami caused by the 2004 Sumatra earthquake
also caused great devastation where Ms Kalukottege lives
in Colombo.

Ms. Kalukottege, who luckily was not directly

effected, is concentrating her efforts on supporting victimsof the devastation.

She writes that the expressions on the
http://www.iiclo.or.jp/100books.htm

faces of young victims change when she reads them picture

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Writer’s Workshop
On

March

20,

2005

illustrator in such works as the riddle picture book “Thepicture book author ARAI

Riddle Journey” (written by Ishizu Chihiro, Froebel-kan,

Ryoji gave a workshop on

1998), and the word-play book “Yukkuri-Nikkori/Slowly

makingwith a Smile” (written by KIJIMA Hajime, Kaisei-sha,

picturebooks.

Each of the thirty children
who

took

part

made

1995).
acollage picture book using materials such as buttons and[Works by the author]

cloth, colored paper and magic markers or crayons.

“Su-su and Neru-neru” (Kei-sei-sha, 1996)

Afterwards, during the question period, Mr. Arai talked

A surrealistic rendering of an adventure that children

with the children about the fun of making picture books

experience as they sleep.

The title, taken from theand inventive ideas and techniques. An autograph party

children’s names, is word play on two expressions meaning

brought the enjoyable day to a close.

to sleep soundly.
“Chima-chima and I” (Gakushu-Kenkyu-sha, 2004)[Career history]

This is a nonsense book about how dawn comes to a

ARAI Ryoji (1956—), picture book author and illustrator

young boy who has found a cat.

As the day breaks, birds,

is a graduate of Nihon University College of Art. He hasmusical instruments, soup, buses, and so on, appear inreceived numerous awards, including the Astrid Lindgren

human form one after the other.

Memorial Award in 2005, the Special Prize at the Bologna

at the end is particularly charming.

International Children’s Book Exhibition in 1999.

The way the sun appears

In

addition to his work in picture books, he is active in a wide
variety of fields including children’s book and magazine
illustration, advertising, and stage design.

Starting with

“Riding the Bus”, he has created many picture books in aunique pop art style using rich colors and highly individual
characters.

He has also demonstrated his power as an

Events For Adults
April 25/26, 2004
“Introduction and Commentary --- Children’s Books

June 1, 2004

published in 2003”

Keynote Lecture “Books are Wonderful Friends”

Lecturer: NISHIMURA Hisao (Research Society for

Lecturer: NAKAGAWA Masafumi, IICLO Director

Science Reading Materials, Osaka), MIGITA Yumi (alibrarian), and IICLO staff.

May 16, 2004
“Battery --- the World of Asano Atsuko”

May 25 – June 22 (every Tuesday), 2004

Sponsor: The Society for Fostering IICLO, Joint sponsor:“Lecture Series for Training Volunteers: Reading Books

IICLO

with Children”

Lecturer: ASANO Atsuko (children’s books author) and

Lecturer: MIYAKE Okiko (Professor of Baika Women’s
University),

TORIGOE Shin (professor of Seiwa University)

IICLO staff
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Events For Children
May 3/4/5, 2004, Yumeno-ike Theatre

Workshop for story experiences 12 times(1) African Folktales and Drum Concert “Under the
Baobab Tree”
Storyteller: EGUCHI Kazuhisa (Professor, National
Museum of Ethnology)
Percussion: KAWABE Tomomi and Josef NKOSHI

Storytelling 17 times (themes included wolves, mountains,
the sun, Germany, etc.)“Finding insects”(2) “Enjoy the World of Chiisana – Yamagami - SuzunaHime (Small Princess Suzuna, a Mountain Goddess”
1. Workshop: Guest: TOMIYASU Yoko (author)
2. Puppet Show: performed by Puppet Show Company
Kurarute“Making Animation”“Kamishibai in the Street”(3) “Stories in Asia” (puppet show),“A Tour of IICLO”,“Experiencing the World of Children’s Books by theInternet”“Let’s Enjoy Winter Poems”“Karuta Party; playing with Karuta” etc.

March 20, 2004
Author’s Workshop “Let’s Make Picture Books with Arai
Ryoji!" (See Writer’s Workshop.)11

IN APPRECIATION OF BOOK DONATIONS
From April 2004 to March 2005 we received donations from many people and organizations. We would like to express ourheartfelt thanks and also to request your continuing support.
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鄭 明進（TAIWAN）
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GENERAL INFORMATION*Institute Hours: 9:30am-5:00pm*Closed: Wednesdays,
End of month, the New Year Holiday Season(Dec.28th-Jan.4th)[Also closed for a few weeks in February each year for the airing of books and general inventory]

Editor: 水間千恵（MIZUMA Chie）福本由紀子（FUKUMOTO Yukiko）

Translator: Rebecca TEELE
Director: 向川幹雄 (MUKOGAWA Mikio)

The International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka 2005
All Japanese names in the News appear in the traditional order, surname followed by given name.

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