29^th IBBY World Congress
Cape Town, South Africa – September 2004

Presentations and Papers

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Sunday 5 September

#131 OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome by Anna Louw (South Africa)
Welcome by Peter Schneck (Austria)
Welcome by Nomaindia Mfeketo, Mayor of Cape Town (South Africa)
Address by Enver Surty, Deputy Minister of Education (South Africa)

#132 PRESENTATION OF ANDERSEN AWARDS
Introduction by Kimete Basha (Belgium)
Laudatio by Jeffrey Garrett (USA)
Message from Julio Panama, Nissan Motor Co. SA
Acceptance speech by author Martin Waddell (Ireland)
Acceptance speech by illustrator Max Velthuijs (Netherlands)

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Monday 6 September

#211
Welcome by Professor Njabulo Ndebele (South Africa)

#212
Professor Osazee Fayose (Nigeria) Not just Books for Africa, but a reading culture too!

#213
Teresa Cardenas (Cuba) Macucupé: stories from the past.

#231
Agnes Gyr-Akunda (Rwanda) L’Oralité, une chance ou un handicap pour l’écriture? Experience au Randa.
Rogerio Andrade Barbosa (Brazil) Oral African tradition in contemporary Brazilian children’s literature.
Cynthia James (West Indies) Searching for Anansi: from orature to literacy in the West Indian children’s folk tradition.
Sunday Frances Okoh (Nigeria) The impact of oral tradition on contemporary children’s fiction in Nigeria.

#232
Beatrice Lamwaka (Uganda) The power of storytelling and reading in healing children orphaned or traumatised by war in northern Uganda.
Heidi Boiesen (Norway) Can books make a difference?
Surekha Panandiker (India) Let us bring back that smile.

#251
Kyoko Matsuoka (Japan) Acceptance speech on behalf of Honour List nominees

#272
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (USA) Illustrations and the messages they convey: African culture in picture books.
Brenda Randolph (USA) Images of South Africa in the Diaspora: an analysis of recent children’s fiction published in the USA and United Kingdom.
Joan I Glazer (USA) Informational books and country studies on Africa: whose perspective?

#273
Cherrell Shelley-Robinson (Jamaica) Finding a place under the sun: migration and the search for identity in Caribbean youth literature.
Alicia Susana Salvi (Argentina) Migrations in books for children and young people.
Melanie A Kimball (USA) & Dennis Leoutsakas (USA) Assembling orphan tales: from folklore to fiction to fact.

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Tuesday 7 September

#311
Professor Elwyn Jenkins (South Africa) Sharing our stories

#313
Gcina Mhlophe (South Africa)

#331
Richard Van Dongen (USA) Reading literature multiculturally: a stance to enhance reading across cultural borders.
Valerie Coghlan (Ireland) Making a change: Ireland’s response to a multicultural society. [Retained by the author.]
Tanella Boni (Ivory Coast) Multiculturalisme et litterature pour adolescents.
Niki Daly (South Africa) From Songololo to Jamela: a time of change.

#332
Malore Brown (USA) Reclaiming the ‘African’ in African children’s stories.
Theo Heras (Canada) and Pam Mountain (Canada) Crossing oceans: African stories come to Canada.
Metka Kordigel (Slovenia) The reception of African tales at the other end of the world.
Rudine Sims Bishop (USA) The ties that bind: African connections in African American children’s books.

#334
Report on “The Future of IBBY”

#351
Andree-Jeanne Totemeyer (Namibia) Awards for local language children’s literature: worth the effort?
Viviana Quinones (France) Children’s books and reading in Francophone Africa: and the work of La Joie par les livres.
Fatou Keita (Ivory Coast) Le Livre pour enfants: une necessité en Afrique?
Maritha Snyman (South Africa) Mapping production trends of Afrikaans children’s and youth literature: 1990-2002.

#352
Introduction by Dr Elizabeth Poe
“Books Alive” [the script consists of dramatized versions of a number of copyright publications and is not available]

#353
Ekine Adefunke (Nigeria) Classroom teachers’ perception of the effect of storybooks and storytelling on primary school children.
Huang Jianbin (China) The Library of Love project and the AIDS village in Henan Province.
Dr Dudu Jankie (Botswana) Using multicultural literature in Setswana and English secondary school classrooms: voices of in-service teachers.
Ingrid Johnston (Canada) African novels in North American schools: issues of access, reception and cultural mediation.

#371
Jinx Watson (USA) Reading literary memoirs to make sense of sensitive histories: the Civil Rights Movement (USA), Apartheid South Africa and the Cultural Revolution (China) as examples.
Tanya Barben (South Africa) Umntu ngumntu ngabantu: a person is a person because of other persons. The ethos of the pre-colonial Xhosa-speaking people as presented in fact and young adult fiction.
Elizabeth Laird (UK) Kings, Lions and the Hyena Woman: collecting and publishing folk stories in Ethiopia.

#372
Barbara Lehman (USA) Issues of teacher interest and access to multicultural and global children’s books.
Evelyn B Freeman (USA) ‘The Canon’ and global perspectives in children’s literature.
Patricia L Scharer (USA) Trends in publishing multicultural and global children’s literature in the USA.

#373
Senait Melaku (Ethiopia) Gender portrayal in modern Ethiopian stories for children.
Luciana Savaget (Brazil) The fire power of words: reading needs and interests of children traumatised and orphaned by war.
Nadia El Kholy (Egypt) The politics of heroism: past and present in Egyptian children’s stories.

#391
Laudation for IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award by Xose Antonio Neira Cruz
Acceptance speech by Lorato Trok (First Words in Print)

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Wednesday 8 September

#411
Beverley Naidoo (UK) Out of bounds: ‘Witness literature’ and the challenge of crossing racialised borders.

#412
Jean Williams (South Africa) SACBF ‘Book Flood’ libraries in South Africa, 2000-2005.

#413
Dr Neville Alexander (South Africa) and Carole Bloch (South Africa) Feeling at home with literacy in mother tongue.

#431
Ashley Bryan (USA), Kemie Nix (USA) and Charity Mwangi (Kenya) Reader to reader: Project Africa.
Tracie Hall (USA) Mimi ni Mwanamakataba: possibilities and strategies for community-based library services to children in rural Africa.
Kidi Bebey (France) Launching and developing a youth magazine in French-speaking Africa: the experiment of Planète Jeunes.
Lucia Pimental Goes (Brazil) En développant une literature juvenile pour les jeunes Africains.

#432
Adrian Onyando (Kenya) When a new dance comes: the challenge of adapting the internet technology to the Third World literature.
Kaarima Kolu (Finland) and Teresia Volotinen (Finland) Virtual literature circles increase social capital in collaborative learning.
Ann Carlson Weeks (USA) Can twenty-first century technologies offer new possibilities for providing books for children?
John McKenzie (New Zealand) Augmented reality and new literatures: the child as a performing agent within the text.

#433
Siyagruva presentation?

#452
Deepa Agarwal (India) Many languages: one literature?
Michael D Ambatchew (Ethiopia) Challenges in publishing Coocooloo.
Mofidul Hoque (Bangladesh) Rights of the poor child for best of the books: the economics of book publishing in developing countries.
Boris Abersek (Slovenia) The role of translating children’s literature and how to increase worldwide understanding with the use of modern information technologies.

#455
Judith Inggs (South Africa) New directions in South African English youth fiction.
Kwasi Darko-Ampem (Botswana) Reading habits of Standard 5-7 pupils in Gaborone: a pilot survey.
Virginia Dike (Nigeria) Developing fiction for today’s Nigerian youth.
Tilka Jamnik (Slovenia) What motivates today’s children for reading?

#472
Leone Tiemensma (South Africa) Humour in South African children’s literature, with special reference to Children South of the Sun.
Nilay Yilmaz (Turkey) Humour from the East and laughter from the West.
Sandra L Beckett (Canada) Recycling Red Riding Hood in a comic mode.

#474
Reviva Schermbrucker (South Africa) The true picture: combining photographic images in book design.
Sulaiman Adebowale (Senegal) The cultures of comics: publishing and the development of popular literacy in Africa.
Jill Joubert (South Africa) Stories into Art: the Ibhabhathane Project at the Frank Joubert Art Centre.

#475
Rukhsana Khan (Canada) Oral cultural stories brought to the page (Workshop)