List of figures
Figure 1.The cover of Zacharias Topelius’ translation En Barndomsdag published in Sweden and Finland 1879
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Figure 2.Advertising a “Family Soirée” containing the theatricalization of Topelius En Barndomsdag and Axel Löthners musical
composition at Rådhuset i Köping, in Arboga Tidning May 3, 1880
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Figure 3.Detail from Axel Löthner’s partitur to En Barndomsdag containing song and piano to the tableaux depicting the dead
bird
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Figure 4.The tableau depicting the dead bird from Topelius’ translation of En Barndomsdag. Stockholm: Alb. Bonnier,
1879
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Figure 5.The worn out and taped cover to Axel Löthner’s partitur Sex sånger vid Piano till En Barndomsdag af M. Scherer och H. Engler
med text af Zacharias Topelius published 1880
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Figure 1.Photograph from Taylor Isaac Headland’s Our Little Chinese Cousin. Boston, MA: L. C. Page & Company,
1903
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Figure 2.Illustration from Isaac Taylor Headland’s Our Little Chinese Cousin. Boston, MA: L. C. Page & Company,
1903
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Figure 3.Page from John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People. London: Sampson Lowe, Marston, Lowe and Searle,
1873–1874
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Figure 4.Page from John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People. London: Sampson Lowe, Marston, Lowe and Searle,
1873–1874
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Figure 5.“Child eating rice with chopsticks”. Photograph from Mrs. J. F. Bishop’s
Chinese Pictures: Notes on Photographs. London: Cassell and Company, 1900
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Figure 6.“Mode of Carrying Cash and Babies”. Photograph from Mrs. J. F. Bishop’s Chinese Pictures: Notes on Photographs.
London: Cassell and Company, 1900
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Figure 1.Photograph by Edward Steichen from Mary Steichen Calderone’s The First Picture Book. New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company, 1930. The photograph shows an arrangement of wooden toy trains
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Figure 2.Photograph by Edward Steichen from Mary Steichen Calderone’s The First Picture Book. New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company, 1930. The photograph shows toy blocks
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Figure 3.Photograph by Tana Hoban from Shapes and Things. New York: Macmillan, 1970. Used by permission of Miela Ford. The
photograph shows a paper flower
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Figure 1.Front cover of (Lenin i komsomol’tsy). Photo-illustration by Vladimir Savel’ev. Moscow, Petrograd: Molodaia
gvardiia, 1923. Courtesy of Marina Karasik, from the collection of Mikhail Karasik
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Figure 2.El Lissitzky. USSR Russische Ausstellung (USSR, Russian exhibition, 1929). Poster for the exhibition in the Museum
of Decorative and Applied Arts in Zürich (March 24–April 28, 1929)
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Figure 3.Page from Nikolai Vladimirsky’s Pesnia o Tane (Song of Tania). Photo-illustration by Serguei Sen’kin. Moscow: Novaia
Moskva iunosheskii sektor, 1926. Courtesy of Cotsen Children’s Library, Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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Figure 4.Page from Aleksandr Bezymensky’s Tragediinaia noch’ (Tragic Night).
Photo-illustration by E. Pernikov and Vladimir Griuntal’. Moscow: Gos, izd-vo “Khudozh. lit.”, 1935. Courtesy of Columbia University
Library
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Figure 5.A page from Nikolai Bulatov and Pavel Lopatin’s Puteshestvie po elektrolampe (The Journey Across the Light Bulb).
Photo and montage by M. Makhalov. Moscow & Leningrad: TsK VLKSM, 1937. Courtesy of Cotsen Children’s Library, Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
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Figure 6.A page from Ian Larri’s Neobyknovennye prikliucheniia Karika i Vali (The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and
Valia). Photo-illustration by S. Petrovich. Moscow & Leningrad: TsK VLKSM.´, 1937
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Figure 7.A page from Alexander Vvedensky’s Katina kukla (Katya’s Doll). Photograph by G. I. Grachev. Moscow & Leningrad:
TsK VLKSM Izd-vo detskoi literatury, 1936
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Figure 8.A page from Samuel Marshak’s Chetyre kontsa (The Four Endings). Photo-illustration by M. Tsekhanovsky and S.
Petrovich. Moscow, 1938
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Figure 1.Book cover by Jerzy Janisch of Alina Lan’s Kometa Halley’a (Halley’s Comet). Lviv: Filomat, 1934
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Figure 2.Illustration by Aleksander Krzywobłocki from Alina Lan’s Kometa Halley’a (Halley’s Comet). Lviv: Filomat,
1934
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Figure 3.Book cover by Franciszka Themerson of Stefan Themerson’s, O stole, który uciekł do lasu (The Table That Ran Away to
the Woods). Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia, 1963. © Franciszka Themerson. Used by permission of Jasia Reichardt
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Figure 4.Cover by Adam Kilian of Piotr Wojciechowski’s Lew kololoru marchewki (The Carrot-Colored Lion). Warsaw: Biuro
Wydawnicze „RUCH”, 1971. Used by permission of Jaroslaw Kilian
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Figure 5.Illustration by Stanisław Zamecznik for Stanisław Szydłowski’s Idzie
kot (A Cat Is Walking). Warsaw: Biuro Wydawnicze „RUCH”, 1968. Used by permission of Marta Maria Zamecznik
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Figure 6.Illustration by Bohdan Butenko for Kwapiszon, beczka i pamiątki po wielkim astronomie (Kwapiszon, the Barrel and the
Great Astronomer Souvenirs). Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia, 1978. Used by permission of Monika Grochowska
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Figure 7.Cover of Bohdan Butenko’s Pościg w kurorcie (A Chase in a Resort). Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia, 1976. Used by
permission of Monika Grochowska
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Figure 1.Cover of Bruno Munari’s Le macchine di Munari. Torino: Einaudi, 1942. © Bruno Munari. Tutti i diritti riservati alla
Maurizio Corraini s.r.l. / All rights reserved to Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.
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Figure 2.Munari’s dynamic graphical montage. Illustration from Bruno Munari’s Cappuccetto Giallo. Torino: Einaudi, 1972. ©
Bruno Munari. Tutti i diritti riservati alla Maurizio Corraini s.r.l. / All rights reserved to Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.
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Figure 3.Munari’s drawings on the surfaces of stones. Double spread from Bruno Munari’s Da lontano era un’isola. Milano: Emme
Edizioni, 1971. © Bruno Munari. Tutti i diritti riservati alla Maurizio Corraini s.r.l. / All rights reserved to Maurizio Corraini
s.r.l.
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Figure 4.Real or imaginative island? Double spread from Bruno Munari’s Da lontano era
un’isola. Milano: Emme Edizioni, 1971. © Bruno Munari. Tutti i diritti riservati alla Maurizio Corraini s.r.l. / All rights
reserved to Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.
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Figure 5.“Toddler in a grump, toddler in the dump.” Graphical layout of doublespreads from Enzo Arnone and Bruno Munari’s Ciccì
Coccò’s first edition by FotoSelex in 1982 (above) and the new edition by Corraini in 2000 (below). © Enzo Arnone. Tutti i
diritti riservati alla Maurizio Corraini s.r.l. / All rights reserved to Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.
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Figure 1.“She had seen great tanks along the roadside”. Photograph from Madeline Brandeis. Little Jeanne of
France. Children of All Lands Stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929, p. 161. Copyright Gutenberg.org.
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Figure 2.Cover of Madeline Brandeis. The Little Dutch Tulip Girl. “Children of All Lands Stories”. New York: Grosset &
Dunlap, 1929
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Figures 3 and 4.Covers of Dominique Darbois. Noriko la petite japonaise. “Enfants du monde”. Paris: Nathan, 1961, and Dominique
Darbois. Natacha la petite russe. “Enfants du monde”. Paris: Nathan, 1966. Used by permission of Françoise
Denoyelle
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Figure 5.“Then Margot told a story to Jeanne”. Photograph from Madeline Brandeis. Little Jeanne of France.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929, p. 186. Copyright Gutenberg.org.
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Figure 6.“A Dijon mustard shop”, Photograph from Madeleine Brandeis. Little Jeanne of France. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 1929, p. 169. Copyright Gutenberg.org.
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Figure 1.Private portrait of Anna Riwkin, undated, ©Anna Riwkin/Judiska Museet,
Stockholm
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Figure 2.Elly Jannes & Anna Riwkin, Elle-Kari, ca. 1949–1950. ©Anna Riwkin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 3.Astrid Lindgren & Anna Riwkin, Jackie bor i Holland, 1963. ©Anna Riwkin/ Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 4.Anna Riwkin, A Korean girl, 1956. ©Anna Riwkin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 5.Anna Riwkin, Stina Taikon lagar mat i sin husvagn, 1954. ©Anna Riwkin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 6.Anna Riwkin, “The Dutch Boy”, 1948. ©Anna Riwkin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 7.Astrid Lindgren & Anna Riwkin, Jackie bor i Holland, 1963. ©Anna Riwkin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 8.Private photography of Anna Riwkin and Lilibet, undated ca. 1950–1960. ©Anna Riwkin/Judiska Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 9.Israeli boy, undated. ©Anna Riwkin/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Figure 1.Girl Staring into a Bakery Window, London, circa 1935. Photograph by Edith Tudor-Hart. Photo: Wien Museum. © the property of the
estate of W. Suschitzky. Used by permission of Peter Suschitzky
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Figure 2.Photo by Edith Tudor-Hart from Yvonne Cloud’s The Basque Children in
England. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. © the property of the estate of W. Suschitzky. Used by permission of Peter
Suschitzky
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Figure 3.Photo by Edith Tudor-Hart from Moving and Growing: Physical Education in the Primary School. London: Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1952. © the property of the estate of W. Suschitzky. Used by permission of Peter Suschitzky
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Figure 4.Photo by Edith Tudor Hart, from Moving and Growing: Physical Education in the Primary School. London: Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1952. Used by permission from the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Figure 5.Photo by Edith Tudor Hart, from Moving and Growing: Physical Education in the Primary School. London: Her Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1952. © the property of the estate of W. Suschitzky. Used by permission of Peter Suschitzky
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Figure 1.Cover of Bullermax by Horst Beseler (text) and Edith Rimkus (photo). Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1964. Used by
permission of Ulrike Beseler
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Figure 2.Doublespread from Bullermax by Horst Beseler (text) and Edith Rimkus (photo). Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1964. Used
by permission of Ulrike Beseler
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Figure 3.Cover of Matti im Wald by Horst Beseler (text) and Edith Rimkus (photo). Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1966. Used by
permission of Ulrike Beseler
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Figure 4.Doublespread from Matti im Wald by Horst Beseler (text) and Edith Rimkus (photo). Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1966.
Used by permission of Ulrike Beseler
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Figure 5.Photo by Edith Rimkus from Horst Beseler’s Matti im Wald. Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1966. Used by permission of
Ulrike Beseler
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Figure 6.Cover of Kleiner Bruder Staunemann by Hannes Hüttner (text) and Lotti Ortner (photo). Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag,
1966
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Figure 7.Photo by Lotti Ortner from Hannes Hüttner’s Kleiner Bruder Staunemann. Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1966
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Figure 1.Doublespread from Golomb, Dikla’s Eti Ve-Na’ama (Eti and Na’ama).
Photograph by Ervin Farkash. Tel Aviv: Amichai, 1961. Used by permission of Joseph Oraln
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Figure 2.Photograph by Ervin Farkash from Golomb, Dikla’s Eti Ve-Na’ama (Eti and Na’ama). Tel Aviv: Amichai, 1961. Used by
permission of Joseph Oraln
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Figure 3.Photograph by Baruch Raviv from Dvora Omer’s Masa le-erets ha-geshem (Journey to the Land of Rain). Ramat Gan:
Massada, 1968. Used by permission of Gil Raviv and Yael Raviv-Ferber
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Figure 4.Photograph by Peter Merom from Natan Yonatan’s Lilakh mi-kvutsat Ilanot (Lilach of Kibbutz Ilanot). Tel Aviv:
Ha-kibutz ha-mehuad, 1963. Used by permission of Bouky Boaz
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Figure 5.Photograph by Peter Merom from Natan Yonatan’s Lilakh mi-kvutsat Ilanot (Lilach of Kibbutz Ilanot). Tel Aviv:
Ha-kibutz ha-mehuad, 1963. Used by permission of Bouky Boaz
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Figure 1.“P is for Power and P is for Pride”. Page from Yusef Iman’s Weusi Alfabeti. Brooklyn, NY: Uhuru Sasa School, 1972.
Permission to use Weusi Alfabeti images and graphics provided by Antoinette Brown, Uhuru Sasa, Pre-School Director,
granted by Malika Iman
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Figure 2.“K is for knowledge, and king”. Page from Yusef Iman’s Weusi Alfabeti. Brooklyn, NY: Uhuru Sasa School, 1972.
Permission to use Weusi Alfabeti images and graphics provided by Antoinette Brown, Uhuru Sasa, Pre-School Director,
granted by Malika Iman
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Figure 3.“S is for school”. Page from Yusef Iman’s Weusi Alfabeti. Brooklyn, NY: Uhuru Sasa School, 1972. Permission to use
Weusi Alfabeti images and graphics provided by Antoinette Brown, Uhuru Sasa, Pre-School Director, granted
by Malika Iman
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Figure 4.“Y is for our youth”. Page from Yusef Iman’s Weusi Alfabeti.
Brooklyn, NY: Uhuru Sasa School, 1972. Permission to use Weusi Alfabeti images and graphics provided by Antoinette Brown,
Uhuru Sasa, Pre-School Director, granted by Malika Iman
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Figure 5.“D is for Doll”. Page from Jean Carey Bond’s A is for Africa. New York: Franklin Watts, 1969. Copyright Jean Carey
Bond, used by permission of Jean Carey Bond, Ruth Bond, and Carey Bond
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Figure 6.“K is for Kerchief”. Page from Jean Carey Bond’s A is for Africa. New York: Franklin Watts, 1969. Copyright Jean
Carey Bond, used by permission of Jean Carey Bond, Ruth Bond, and Carey Bond
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Figure 7.Smoky Mokes, Original Cover to the Sheet Music, public domain. Reproduced in The Black Book
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