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About the editors
Annie Everall is a Director of ‘Authors Aloud UK’ and a children’s books,
libraries and reading consultant. During her career she has developed
and managed a range of award winning innovative library services
and reading initiatives in the UK including the Derbyshire Big Book Bash
for Children in Care, Derbyshire Book Pushers programme of teenage
reading advocates, the Birmingham Centre for the Child, The Young
Readers UK children’s literature festival and the Stories from the Web
online reader development initiative. She is a children’s book reviewer,
serves on the CILIP School Libraries Group committee and the Journal
of Librarianship and Information Science editorial board. She has been Chair
of the CILIP Youth Libraries Group and the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway
Awards. She has been the UK representative on the Libraries for Children
and Young Adults section committee of IFLA and is currently Chair
of the Literacy & Reading Section. In 2001 she was awarded the OBE
(Order of the British Empire) for services to children’s books and libraries.
Viviana Quiñones, from Argentina and France, has worked since 1985
at the French National Centre for Children’s Literature – formerly known
as La Joie par les livres – which became part of the Bibliothèque nationale
de France in 2008. At its International Department, she has cooperated
with African librarians and publishers since 1987. She has developed the
collection of African books for young people and promoted them through
exhibitions. She was a founder of the journal for children’s librarians
Takam Tikou in 1989 and has been its editor and contributor since then.
She has managed an African network for children’s reading and taught
many training sessions in different countries. She edited the best-selling
handbook Faire vivre une bibliothèque jeunesse : Guide de l’animateur (2005)
and has published numerous articles and papers. She is a standing
committee member of IFLA section Libraries for Children and Young
Adults since 2007; she initiated its Sister Library programme in 2009
and is currently Chair of the section.
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Illustrations by David Pintor, www.davidpintor.com
Design by Ursula Held, ursula@helddesign.com
The World through Picture Books / Edited by Annie Everall and Viviana Quiñones
The Hague, IFLA Headquarters, 2015 – 218 p. 30 cm. (IFLA Professional Reports: 136)
ISSN 0168-1931
Annie Everall and Viviana Quiñones, 2015.
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