Svetlana Efimova and Marina Balina: The Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture: Introduction

Section I. Working for the Future: Shaping an Engaged Reader through Image and Text

Marek Oziewicz (University of Minnesota, USA): The Politics of Climate Literacy in Picturebooks: Three Strategies for Shaping Ecocentric Attitudes with Text and Images

Carmen Sippl (University College of Teacher Education, Lower Austria): Decoding Picturebooks in/as a Futures Literacy Lab: Imaginings of the Future in Contemporary German-Language Picturebooks

Svetlana Efimova (LMU Munich, Germany): Individual Agency in Contemporary Belarusian and Russian Picturebooks: Empowerment and Critical Thinking

Karoline Thaidigsmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Concepts of Socially Engaged Polish Children’s Literature of the Twenty-First Century

Enik? Dacz (LMU Munich, Germany): The Realm of Tales and Poems as an Ideological Battlefield in Contemporary Hungarian Children’s Literature



Section II. The Politics of Memory: Visualizing Text, Textualizing Image

Daria Semenova (Vilnius University, Lithuania): Illustrated History for Pre-School Ukrainians: Stories About History and the Collective Memory Narrative

Mateusz ?wietlicki (University of Wrocław, Poland): Politics of Memory and Present-Day Politics in Ukrainian-Themed American Historical Fiction for Young People

Anastasia Ulanowicz (University of Florida, USA): Haunted Memories: Representations of Eastern European Immigration in Vera Brosgol’s Be Prepared and Anya’s Ghost

Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA): The Presence of the Past: Transmitting War Memory in Contemporary Russian YA Literature

Laure Thibonnier-Limpek (Universite Grenoble Alpes, France): War and Peace in Children’s Drawings: Visual Canon between the Leningrad Siege and Today’s Russia



Section III. Textual and Visual Construction of Social Worlds in the Twenty-First Century

Maria Mayofis (Amherst College, USA): Imagined Social Worlds: Assembling Diversity in Contemporary Post-Soviet Children's Literatures

Larissa Rudova (Pomona College, USA): The Queering of Childhood in Mikita Franko’s Fiction: New Characters and New Parenthood

Dorota Michułka (University of Wrocław, Poland): From Liminality to Resilience: Migratory Experience in Contemporary Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults

Smiljana Naran?i? Kova? (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Leaving and Finding Home: War and Refugees in Croatian Picturebooks

Anne Hultsch (University of Vienna, Austria): “Where Is My Home?” Searching for National Identity in Czech Children’s and YA Literature

Bella Delacroix Ostromooukhova (Sorbonne University, France): “Home Is Where Your Books Are”: Children’s Literature for a New Wave of Russian Emigration