NO.16 August 2007

Picture Books in Taiwan
International Exchange Projects in 2006
Four projects on the theme “Picture Books in the Chinese Speaking Areas: 1. Taiwan” were held to facilitate interaction
between Taiwan and Japan through picture books.
(1) A symposium titled “Picture Books in Taiwan” was held on March 4, 2007 at IICLO
Speakers: Lai Ma, author of picture books in Taiwan
HASEGAWA Yoshifumi, author of picture books in Japan
Coordinator: DOI Yasuko, researcher at IICLO
We had an opportunity not only to discover the charm of the picture
books of each country and region but also to consider the universal
fascination of picture books through the discussion by very popular
picture book authors in Taiwan and Japan of their own books.

The

participants reviewed this symposium favorably and made comments
such as “I felt picture books didn’t have national borders.” “I felt some
Asian picture books conveyed their region’s culture and some were
universal and accessible to an international audience.” “The pairing ofthese two authors was excellent.” “I felt this was a well organizedproject.” (115 participants)

I’ve Become a fire-Breathing
Dragon!, 1996

LaiMa

The Stray Dogs Around
My House and Me,
1997

The Day I Got Up Early,
2002

HASEGAWA Yoshifumi

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My Grampa’s Gramp’s Grampa’s
Grampa, 2000

(2) A Collection of Essays and a Report on the Symposium was issued
A collection of essays on the theme of “Taiwan and Picture books” and a report on the symposium “Picture Books in
Taiwan and Japan” was published in three languages, Japanese, Chinese and English. It has as its aim both toheighten the understanding of picture books and Taiwan, and to promote study in these areas.
A Collection of Essays: Picture Books in Taiwan(Editor in chief: Prof. MIYAKE Okiko, Graduate School of Baika Women’s University)
1. “Taiwanese Picture Books” in Children’s Literature in Chinese Speaking Areas －in a historical swell－
NARUMI Tomoko (Assistant Professor, Osaka Kyoiku University)
2. Listen to, Draw, Edit and Tell Stories －My Experience in Picture Books－
Tsao Jun Yen (Picture Book Author in Taiwan / Editor)
3. The “Jimmy Phenomenon” in Taiwan
Yu Peiyun (Assistant Professor, Institute of Children’s Literature, National Taitung University)
4. A Historical Outline and Analysis of the Arrival of Japanese Picture Books for Children in Taiwan －The Present
Situation of Taiwanese Picture Books: from “Tuhuashu” period to “Hui ben” period－
Chang Kuei-E (Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University)
5. A Study on The Day I Got Up Early by Lai Ma －The familiar imaginary world and readers’ sympathy－
SUZUKI Honami (Researcher, International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka)(3) Exhibition of Picture Books from the Chinese Speaking Areas “Taiwan Picture Books Now：Picture books from the
Chinese speaking areas and Japan, Part1” on April 1 ~ 29, 2007
A Package of Picture Books from the Chinese Speaking Areas for Loan
85 Taiwanese and 27 Chinese picture books picture books have been chosen on certain selected themes and preparedwith comments and a list for exhibition in order to show their unique charm. These books will be lent for free to schools,
public libraries, volunteer organizations and so on.
Exhibition design: Naka Yumiko (translator of Chinese children’s literature)(4) Storytelling for children
A storytelling event involving stories from the Chinese bloc and picture books was held on March 2007.

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The Wonderful World of Mother Goose
Lecturer: Prof. FUJINO Toshio, President of the Mother Goose Society of Japan, President of theJapan Society for Children’s Literature in English, Professor of Jumonji University
Date: at 14:00 – 16:00, on September 17, 2006
Organizer: IICLO
Under the auspices of the Mother Goose Society of Japan
Supported by the Japan Society for Children’s Literature in English

The exhibition “Mother Goose—Traditional Nursery Rhymes Born in
Britain” was held at our institute from August 1 to October 30. On
September 17, Prof. Toshio Fujino who has been engaged in the research forMother Goose for 30 years gave a lecture titled “The Wonderful World ofMother Goose”.
Prof. Fujino talked about the fascinations of this collection from various
perspectives such as everyday quotations, names of places and buildings,
their origin and background, translation and music.
Despite the bad weather caused by an approaching typhoon, about 70 people attended. Prof. Fujino said “Mother Goose
accepts you without fail, whatever your individual approach may be. But be careful. Once you enter Mother Goose’s
mysterious magical forest, you will not be able to get out. Even as I say this, I really hope a lot of people will wander there.
His humorous and affectionate way of speaking charmed the audience.
This was the first lecture about Mother Goose at IICLO and we are looking forward to the start of new connections
with the Mother Goose Society of Japan and the Japan Society for Children’s Literature in English which supported
this lecture.

Picture Books in Eastern Europe—from the scene of BIB
Lecturer: Ms. Barbara Brathová, secretary-general of BIB, researcher of art history
Translator: Ms. ISHIKAWA Haruko, lecturer at Kansai University, researcher of children’s literature
Date: June 26, 2006
Under the auspices of the JBBY Kansai liaison office, IICLO
On June 26, 2006, a lecture was given by Ms. Barbara Brathová, secretary-generalof BIB who was in Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the visiting exhibition“Biennale of Illustrations Bratislava, BIB” at the Ashikaga Museum of Art.
“Biennale of Illustrations Bratislava, BIB” is known as the biggest exhibition oforiginal picture book illustrations in the world. Since the first BIB was held in 1967
it has been held in every two years with the 20th exhibition held in 2005. The
exhibition is highly evaluated as a forum for interaction among picture book authors from all over the world, and as a3

world-scale exhibition in which Asian and African countries also take part today. After she introduced the BIB’s
activities, she actually showed the works of authors from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Hungary,
Croatia and Bulgaria. Using visual illustrations, she explained clearly how the works classified as Eastern European
picture books each show unique ethnic traits supported at the same time by a shared high artistic standard. We learned
that though a lot of Eastern European picture books have been translated into Japanese, there are even morewonderful picture books from that area.
About 30 people attended the lecture and could look at picture books from Eastern Europe, rarely seen at IICLO,
making this a particularly fruitful event.

Let’s enjoy the world of “picture books”
with Susanne Berner
On May 20 we invited Susanne Berner, a picture book author from Germany for a children’s workshop. Her works,
such as Sagashite Asobou Haru-monogatari (Herbst- Wimmelbuch, Let’s Find Spring to Play) by Hikumano Shuppan
and Tanya no Bouken (Das Abenteuer, The Adventure of Tanya) by Holp Shuppan, have been published in Japan.
In the first half of the workshop Ms. Berner introduced her works by CD-ROM, and in the second half she madecollage works with the children. She showed a picture of bleak building the same number of open windows as theparticipants, and the children each chose the one they liked and drew a self-portrait to paste there. Then, they pasted
on pictures of trees, people, vehicles and animals, to complete a scene of a town. After finishing the collage, Ms. Bernerand children discussed the town scene.
The completed work was put up on the wall beside the children’s room for two months and visitors stopped to look at
it closely.
Supported by Goethe-Institut.

Book Donations from the Osaka Kiwanis ClubOn July 25, 2006 the Osaka Kiwanis Club donatedeach year from 1982 to 1994 to our institute, enabling

500,000 yen to our institute for international exchange

us to collect about 12,000 children’s books published inthrough children’s books. Mr. ASHIHARA Yoshimichi,

Asian countries. These books are kept carefully in our

the president of the Osaka Kiwanis Club, presented

library as “Kiwanis Books”, while a part of them isthe donation to MUKOGAWA Mikio, the director of ouropen access in the reading room on the 2nd floor.

institute.

The donations given to us since last year have also

The Osaka Kiwanis Club has donated 500,000 yen

been used mainly for collecting books published in Asia.

4The Children’s room on the 1st floor has a “Kiwanis

know about the picture books we have purchased, weBooks” area and translations of selected passages orheld a storytelling event “The Story Basket: Asiancomplete translations of these books are attached to

Stories for Children’s Reading Day” where we invited

each book available for lending. In 2005 mainly picture

Jiminbooks in Thai were collected.

Mongolian, and she

In 2006 we bought a lot of picture books fromread a picture book

Mongolia which is notable in recent years for Sumo

from Mongolia, “Thewrestling and active exchanges with Japan, and fromThumb Hero”.

Gua,

a

China which is growing fast. We would like tocontributetointernational

exchange

through

Mongolian and Chinese picture books. To let people

Researcher Fellowship Program
The Research Fellowship Program to make new networks with researchers outside the institute and to have them
use the reference materials of IICLO, invited researchers with impressive records of achievement as research fellows.
This program promotes and supports researchers and requires them to show the results of their research by organizing
exhibitions, giving lectures and contributing papers to our bulletin.

In 2006, we invited two researchers.

<The research fellows in 2006>
・KOSOKABE Hideyuki
Theme: The transition of visual expression in picture books and picture magazines in the Taisho period
Exhibition: “Pictures of Heroes and Strong Men: figures of historic heroes drawn in picture books and picture
magazines in the Meiji and Taisho periods”, Nov. 2006 to Feb. 2007
・ASAOKA Yasuou
Theme: Research on the “Nihon-Syoukokumin-Bunka-Kyoukai” (Japan Little Nations Culture Association)
Thesis: “From children’s culture to Syoukokumin(Little Nations) culture: indications and contentions concerning thepolicy of children’s culture in wartime” IICLO Journal No. 20.

Special Lending＜A set of Asian picture books for lending＞
Since 2005 we have made a set of picture books from Asia and began to lend them to groups as a part of ourinternational exchange project. We lend selected works of the latest picture books, with Japanese translation when they
are available, for free.

At the moment we have:

Korean Picture Books Set B

Korean Picture Book Set A(76 books)(103 books), Chinese Speaking Areas Picture Book Set (112 books)

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＜A package of books for exhibition for special lending＞
Since 2005 a package of books for exhibition has been available for special
lending as material for exhibition in public libraries in Osaka prefecture. Books,
captions, explanatory panels and lists from exhibitions held at IICLO are available
for lending for free.
In 2005 about 80 items from the exhibition, “the World of Peter Pan”, were lent out,
and were displayed in the Osaka Prefectural Central Library and the Hirakata
Public Library. According to the questionnaire taken of the exhibition visitors, it received a favorable review, withvisitors saying that they could realize the larger world of the story through various materials such as picture books,
books and picture-story shows.
We now have available exhibition materials for “The World of Peter Pan”, “A Dog of Flanders—the figures of Nelloand Patrasche” and “Traditional Nursery Rhymes Born in Britain—Mother Goose”.

＜Special lending for exhibitions＞
We have lent our materials to public organizations to exhibit.
・The exhibition “These Children’s Books in Those Days: from picture books to textbooks in wartime and after the war”
at Osaka Museum of History, June to September, 2006 / magazine “Kinder Book” and others: 200 items
・The exhibition “Violently Created!!—a half century of TAJIMA Yukihiko and TASHIMA Seizo”
at The Museum of Art, Kochi and Niitsu Art Forum in Niigata, July 2006 to April 2007 / original pictures of

Jigoku-no-Soubei and others: 26 items
・The exhibition “The History of Minoo”
at Minoo Bunka Kouryu Center, November to December, 2006 / magazine “Ribbon” and others: 13 items
・The exhibition “Omake (free gift) Big Parade—makers vs collectors”
・at The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living, January to April 2007 / Kabaya Jidou Bunko (children’s books)

Cinderella and others / 50 items
・The exhibition for themes “Hometown Minoo”
at Minoo Seinan Public Library, March to April 2007 / “Syounen-gahou” and others: 8 items
Total: 33 issues: 1507 items.

A Program for Groups
We offer a “Program for Groups” for free, in which staff members who are specialists in children’s literature andchildren’s culture, offer their services, making the most of their daily practices and the results of their research, so that
more children can enjoy the pleasure of reading. This is a program for preschool, kindergarten, primary school, juniorhigh school students and other groups. We have an attractive program mixing storytelling, picture books, video, bookintroduction, commentary and workshops for children to enable them to meet the world of stories and have a good time.
In 2006 about 2500 children in 37 groups took part in this program and we received favorable reviews.

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Database
The Contents of Major Children’s Magazines of the Meiji Period
We began a project to study and to make a database of the contents of valuable children’s magazines of the Meiji
period in the possession of IICLO, with the cooperation of outside researchers added to our staff. In 2006 we received
the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and made a database of thecontents and opened it to the public. The contents of “Syonen-sekai” (Boy’s World) can be searched in our web page.
Co-researcher: HATAKEYAMA Chouko (Baika Women’s University), FUJIMOTO Yoshinori (Otani University JuniorCollege), SKAI Masayo (Aichi Syukutoku University), MEGURO Tsuyoshi (Kobe University)

Computer Search System☆ Computer System
Many people are already using the service, but you can reserve reading and lending books and apply to photocopy
from your search of books by the IICLO web page. To use our service, those with an IICLO “registration card” should
log in with the user’s number printed on their card and register their mail address and password. People without aregistration card can also register from the search page. (It is only in Japanese.)☆ Research for the development of a new book research system
Many people have used “A Great Adventure on the Sea of Books”, the children’s library search system started in April
2002, as can be seen by the fact that the total number of people accessing it came to over a million. We have developed“Hon-Navi Kids (Book Navigation for Kids)”, a new system for supporting reading activities based on search results andchallenges. The gist of this new system is the reaction to searches to the links of the book search in public libraries, theconstruction of a system of tables of story keywords for lower grade children and the development of a new navigation
system that allows the user to adopt his or her impressions of a book as a search key. The web page address is
http://www.honnavi.jp/honnavi/navi/navi/topmenu.jsp (This project is being conducted in collaboration with the Graduate
School of Library, Information and Media Studies, the University of Tsukuba and the Fujitsu Tohoku Systems.)

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The Number of Materials☆The number of references increased (2006.4-2007.3):☆Reference materials in our possession (as of 2007.3):

16,086

697,055 items

Books: 9,799

Books: 326,141
Japanese books: 293,331 /Japanese books: 9,280 / Foreign books: 519

Foreign books: 32,810

Magazines: 246,119

Magazines: 6,031

Japanese magazines: 231,538

Japanese magazines: 5,838 / Foreign magazines: 193

Foreign magazines: 14,581

Others: 256

Others: 124,795☆ The

The number of removals by break in the references fornumberofdonationsandpurchases(2006.4-2007.3)

Loan and use of duplicates: 11,711

The number of donations: 8,953
Books: 4,171/ Magazines: 4,606 / Others: 176

The number of purchases: 7,133
Books: 5,628/ Magazines: 1,425 / Others: 80

Major Events of April, 2006～March, 2007
<Project for Promoting Reading Activities for Children in Osaka>
The liaison for consultations for promoting children’s reading activities in Osaka* held the following projects
subsidized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
・Toward the Aim of Enriching Children’s Activities: the・“Author Visit” lecturer: SHIMADA Yoko at Habikino

Report for 2006, published in March 2007
・Lecture:

City Nishiura-higashi Primary School and IICLO“Enjoy Poems, Enjoy Words” on February

15th, 2006 / Lecturer: SHIMADA Yoko, poet / the* Osaka Prefectural Board of Education, Osaka City

report on the meeting for a children’s reading

Board of Education, Osaka Prefectural Central Library,activity at Hotel Awina, Osaka

Osaka Municipal Library, Osaka Prefectural Education

・The model project by Kawachinagano City “Babies

Center, Osaka City Education Center, Osaka Library

and Infants and Picture Books: lecture “Making

Association,

Time to Enjoy Being with Children”” held three

Association, Osaka City School Library Association,

times, at Kawachinagano Public Library

Gakko-tosyokan-wo-kangaeru-kai

・The model project by Neyagawa City “Symposium:

Osaka

Prefecture

School(The

think about School Libraries) in

Library

SocietytoKinki, Osaka

The Pleasure of Reading to Children” at thePrefecture Kodomo-bunko-renrakukai (children’s books

Neyagawa Community Center, February 7, 2007 /liaison office), Suita Central Library, Hirakata Central

keynote lecturer: MATSUNO Masako, children’s

Library, Office: IICLO

books author and translator and others. A survey ofprimary

andjuniorhighschoolstudents

in

Neyagawa was held.

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<Winners of the 23rd Nissan Children’s Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix Were Chosen>
The Nissan Children’s Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix, sponsored by IICLO with the co-operation of Nissan
Motors, are highly evaluated as the gateway to success for new authors as well as a contribution to the promotion ofstorybooks and picture books.
The winners of the 23rd Grand Prix were chosen and the awards ceremony was held at the Institute’s lecture hall on
March 1, 2007. The following works were chosen from 2,108 volumes submitted in the Storybook Category and 553
volumes submitted in the Picture Book Category. The grand prix works will be published by BL Publishers in Dec, 2007.

☆In the Storybook Category☆In the Picture Book Category

Grand Prix

Grand Prix

“The River of Fireflies” by OHTSUKI Hitomi,“Water Melon Boy” by TOMITA Maya, Fukuoka

Kanagawa

Award for ExcellenceAward for Excellence“A Crow Looked” by FUJIOKA Waka, Mie“Snow Man Snows” by KOJIMA Yoko, Nara

“Bibi de Aurora” by TAKAHASHI Kyoushiro, Tokyo“The Recent Refrigerator” by YOSHIZUMI Keiko,“Bad Tooth in Cote d’Azur” by SENDA Madoka, Kyoto

Osaka“Rice Ball of Fujita-san” by NAGASAKI Misogo,
Hokkaido<Exhibitions at IICLO>
We displayed our materials possessed by IICLO as noted below.
1. “Korean Picture Books and Now” (April 1-27, 2006)

historic heroes drawn in picture books and picture

2. “A Dog of Flanders—the figures of Nello andmagazines in the Meiji and Taisho periods” (Nov. 2,

Patrasche” (April 29-July 30, 2006)

2006-Feb. 13, 2007)

3. “Traditional Nursery Rhymes Born in Britain —5. “Nissan Award Winners: Children’s Storybook andMother Goose” （Aug. 1-Oct. 30, 2006）

Picture Book Grand Prix” (March 1-30, 2007) with

4. “Pictures of Heroes and Strong Men: figures of

the cooperation of Nissan Motors.

＜Lectures＞“Introduction and Commentary — Children’s Books published in 2005”
Lecturer: NISHIMURA Hisao (Research Society for Science Reading Materials, Osaka), MIGITA Yumi (librarian), andIICLO staff.

Date: April 30, May 1st at IICLO Lecture Hall participants: 188

Children’s Literature Lecture “Kodomo-no-Tomo 50 years anniversary: The History of Kodomo-no-Tomo” Sponsor: The
Society for Fostering IICLO, Joint sponsor: IICLO
Lecturer: MATSUI Tadashi, Counsel of Fukuinkan-Shoten and president of IICLO
Date: June 4th at IICLO Lecture Hall participants: 161

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Events for Children
We held 52 events for children and had 2,310

May 5 Part I: Workshop “Welcome to the World ofparticipants.

MIYAWAZAWA

Kenji”(lecturer:

ENDO

Jun,

researcher at IICLO)

Storytelling 18 times [themes: birds, magic, animals,
forests and so on with volunteers.]

Part II: Puppet play “Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru (Night

Workshop for story experiences 7 times

on the Galactic Railroad)” presented by the puppet

Let’s make animation! （lecturer: KOTANI Kazushi)
Word Playtheatre group Clarte) (Kodomo Yume Fund)

Workshop

Kamishibai on the Street performed by Sanyukai
Let’s Enjoy Winter Poems
Karuta Party
Video Show
“Theatre of the Yume no Ike”
May 3 “Under the Baobab Tree—Tales from West
Africa”
Presented by EGUCHI Kazuhisa (Professor Emeritus
Karuta Partyof the Museum of Ethnology), KAWABE Kazumi
and Joseph Nkoshi (percussionists)

Inviting authors
May 20 “Let’s enjoy the World of “Picture Books with
Susanne Berner, a Picture Book Author from
Germany” Supported by the Goethe-Institut
Jan. 28 “Osaka Word Play Songs—Let’s enjoy the worldof poems with Poet SHIMADA Yoko”
March 18 “Let’s Make Picture Books with Picture Book
Author NAKATSUJI Etsuko” (Kodomo Yume Fund)“Under the Baobab Tree—Tales from West Africa”

May 4 “International Animation": “Greedy Sparrow”
and others (supported by @armz) and “CheerfulLion” (supported by Yamaha Music Media).

NAKATSUJI Etsuko“Welcome to the World of MIYAZAWA Kenji”

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Publications by IICLOMaria Nikolajeva

・Bulletin of the International Institute for Children’s

Japanese translation: TADA Masami

Literature Volume 19 (issued in March 2006)“Explanatory Notes on Specific Items in the Magazine

・Bulletin of the International Institute for Children’s“Shonen” (Boys) vol.1” ENDO Jun

Literature Volume 20 (issued in March 2007)“A Study of the Visual Aspects of Picture Books in“Explanatory Notes on Specific Items in the Magazine

Matsutani Miyoko’s Baby Book Series via an“Shonen” (Boys) vol.2” ENDO Jun

Analysis of the Development of the Narrative“From children’s Culture to Syoukokumin (Little

through Pictures and an Interview of MATSUTANI”

Nations)

KUBOTA Misuzu“Interview:

Expression

Culture:Indications

andContentions

Concerning the Policy of Children’s Culture inof

PictureBooksinWartime” ASAOKA Yasuou

MATSUTANI Miyoko’s Baby Book Series － The“Report on the Project on the Major Boys’ Magazines in

Backstage of Creation Discussed by the Creator of

the Meiji Period” KOMATSU Satoko

the Series, MATSUTANI Miyoko”“The Possibilities for Experiencing Stories at IICLOInterview: KUBOTA Misuzu(12)” DOI Yasuko“Story Activities at IICLO (11) –An Analysis ofChildren’s Responses to the Workshop on the
Picture Book, Daktil Daktil”

・A Collection of Essays: Picture Books in Taiwan,

DOI Yasuko

Symposium “Picture Books in Taiwan and Japan”(March 2007)“The Nursery in Peter Rabbit Stories –Spaces for

Refer to this Newsletter p. 1

Children” FUKUMOTO Yukiko
The Grimm Award Acceptance Lecture“Children’s Literature: Subject, Voice and Power”

Visitors
June 26, 2006 Kriengpol Padhanarath, Director of the International Affairs Division, Bangkok Metropolitan
Administration (BMA), Taweesak Dechdecho, Director of Culture Sports and Tourism Department and 13 others.
July 21, 2006 HISAMATSU Akiko, Director of the Australian Resource Centre, Australia-Japan Foundation, AustralianGovernment.
September 12, 2006 Shih, Chun-Fu, Director of Kaohsiung Public Library and 5 others.

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In Appreciation of Book Donations
From April 2006 to March 2007 we received donations from many people and organizations. We would like to express ourheartfelt thanks and also to request your continuing support.
KESTUTIS URBA（LITUANIA）
BARBARA BRATHOVA / BIB (SLOVAK REPUBLIC)
FUNDACION GERMAN SANCHEZ RUIPEREZ (SPAIN)
THE ASTRID LINDGRES MEMORIAL AWARD(SWEDEN)SVENSKA BARNBOKSINSTITUTET（SWEDEN）
IBBY（SWITZERLAND）
SCHWEIZERISCHES INSTITUT FÜR KINDER-UND
JUGENDMEDIEN（SWITZERLAND）
洪 文珍 (洪 文瓊) (TAIWAN)
高 明美 (信誼基金出版社) (TAIWAN)
鄭 美智 (TAIWAN)
鄭 明進 (TAIWAN)
中 國 海 峡 両 岸 児 童 文 学 研 究 会 ／ （ THE SOCIETY OF
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE）（TAIWAN）
TOIN DUIJX, UNIVERSITY LEIDEN（THE
NETHERLANDS）

江田 拓雄（CHINA）
蒋風（CHINA）
王 泉根（CHINA）
SUOMEN NUORISOKIRJALLISUUDENINSTITUUTTI (SNI) “ONNIMANNI”（FINLAND）
EDITIONS GALLIMARD（FRANCE）
SUSANNE BERNER（GERMANY）
KLAUS DODERER（GERMANY）
GEMEINSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG VON KJL（GERMANY）
INTERNATIONALE JUGENDBIBLIOTHEK(GERMANY）
SOCIETATS-VERLAG（GERMANY）
ULRICH ERCKENBRECHT（GERMANY）
BIBLIOTECA PER RAGAZZI E. DE AMICIS (ITALY)
NEUTINAMU CHILDREN’S LIBRARY / PARKYOUNG- SUK（KOREA）
金 容蘭 (KIM､YONG RAN)（KOREA）
李 惠英 (LEE HYE YOUNG)（KOREA）
嚴 惠淑（KOREA）

General Information*Institute Hours: 9:30am-5:00pm*Closed: Wednesdays,

End of month, the New Year Holiday Season (Dec.28th-Jan.4th)[IICLO is also closed for a few weeks in February each year for the airing of books and general inventory]

Editor: 土居安子（DOI Yasuko）福本由紀子（FUKUMOTO Yukiko）鈴木穂波（SUZUKI Honami）
Translator: Rebecca TEELE
Director: 向川幹雄 (MUKOGAWA Mikio)
The International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka 2007
All Japanese names in the News appear in the traditional order, surname followed by given name.

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