Inis #36

Winter 2011

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Editorial

Patricia Kennon & David Maybury

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Comment

FEATURES

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Imaginative Playspaces: The Picturebooks of Emily Gravett

Valerie Coghlan

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Moon on a Stick: A Conversation with Alison Green

Sarah McIntyre

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The BolognaRagazzi Awards: A Picture of the Judging Process

Martin Salisbury

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Finscéalta á Nua-aoisiú / Modernising Myths

Colmán Ó Raghallaigh

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Child’s Play: John Connolly and Jo Nesbø

Bob Burke

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Nothing Wrong with Us Brits!

Jean Webb & Alysa Levene

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The Book as Desirable Cultural Object: The World of Tara Books

Irene Barber

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Not as Queer as Folk: Issues of Representations in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature

BJ Epstein

REVIEWS

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Proof in the Letting Go — A Greyhound of a Girl

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Snake in the Grass: The Father of Lies Chronicles — Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent

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Scaoil Amach Mé! / Let Me Out of Here! — Dordán

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The Very Best Witch — Earwig and the Witch

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The Hat Maketh the Bear — I Want My Hat Back

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Simply Red — Little Red Hood

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It’s Pure Weird! — My Dad Is Ten Years Old

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Messing It Up — One Seriously Messed-Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane & Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite

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Rhyme is Gonna Getcha… — Sticky Ends

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Coming un-Stuck — Stuck

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Keeping Up with the Djoneses — The History Keepers: The Storm Begins

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Today the Playground, Tomorrow the World — Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World

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Silent Reading — Wonderstruck