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Stories for Healing: Experiences of Literary Reading in the Hospital 2560 1920 Lavinia Hirsu

Stories for Healing: Experiences of Literary Reading in the Hospital

I am Ana Irene Castiglione, an Argentinian hospital teacher and editor. My work as a hospital teacher involves ensuring the right to education for children and adolescents hospitalised at Ricardo Gutiérrez Hospital in the City of Buenos Aires. There, we…

Shaping Writing: Editing and Publishing Experiences in School Contexts 900 900 Lavinia Hirsu

Shaping Writing: Editing and Publishing Experiences in School Contexts

by Esdian Boyadjian, teacher of Primary Education with postgraduate training in Literacy for Inclusion (CePA) and in Writing and Literacy from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She completed the University Training in Publishing of Children’s and Young People’s Literature…

“Waterlily on the Sea,” Exploring Migratory Trauma Through Artistic Research 750 626 Lavinia Hirsu

“Waterlily on the Sea,” Exploring Migratory Trauma Through Artistic Research

by Veronica Salinas My name is Veronica Salinas. I am a writer and university assistant professor of children’s and young adult literature. I was born and raised in Argentina and immigrated to Norway 23 years ago. I work as a…

The Power of Stories: Connecting the World through an online Library of Mini Picture Books 882 796 Lavinia Hirsu

The Power of Stories: Connecting the World through an online Library of Mini Picture Books

– by Josef Lee The ‘House of Mini Picture Books’, founded by writer-artist Josef Lee from Singapore, is an online library of picture stories, available freely for downloading, and printing, to be D.I.Y. into mini picture books. www.minipicbooks.com I am…

Literature and Resilience: How Children’s Literature Transforms Communities in Honduras 1600 900 Lavinia Hirsu

Literature and Resilience: How Children’s Literature Transforms Communities in Honduras

By Ivette Girón In Honduras, one-third of the population is under 18. These children and adolescents face an intersection of significant challenges, including poverty, violence, and forced displacement. In 2022, over 37,000 unaccompanied children and adolescents were intercepted at the…

Books for children… for which children?* 2560 1966 Lavinia Hirsu

Books for children… for which children?*

By Eliana Pasarán I had the fortune of growing up and walking among books, specializing in the publishing of those aimed at children, conceiving them from scratch, editing them and launching them on the market, but until relatively recently I…

A Restorative Experience through Reading 1658 1128 Lavinia Hirsu

A Restorative Experience through Reading

By Brenda Denisse Renteria Cervantes In 2022, an intervention project was developed in a “Sala de lectura” (Reading room) to improve the self-perception of social inclusion of girls and boys from an excluded community through a picturebook. This community was…

Pathways to Reading with ‘Libros Cartoneros’ 626 499 Lavinia Hirsu

Pathways to Reading with ‘Libros Cartoneros’

By Mery Luz Yataco Chacalliaza “Ediciones Calabazas” arose in the province of Yauyos as a need to bridge the gap in access to books in school and out-of-school educational services. The pedagogical proposal “Forming reading families” was implemented in educational…

“To travel far, there is no better vessel than a book”: the trajectory of an itinerant library narrated from different geographies. Part 2. 481 674 Lavinia Hirsu

“To travel far, there is no better vessel than a book”: the trajectory of an itinerant library narrated from different geographies. Part 2.

By Diana Cruz (Guatemalan writing from the United Kingdom) Following the trajectory (remotely) of the travelling library ‘Bibliomochilas’ has given me the opportunity to develop as a researcher and to interrogate the metaphors and paradoxes that have formed and continue…

“To travel far, there is no better vessel than a book”: the trajectory of an itinerant library narrated from different geographies. Part 1. 595 1061 Lavinia Hirsu

“To travel far, there is no better vessel than a book”: the trajectory of an itinerant library narrated from different geographies. Part 1.

By Rosario Obregón (Peruvian writing from the United States) Mi Primer Libro Perú (My First Book Peru) is the product of the encounter between necessity and opportunity: between the scarcity in one part of the world and the abundance in…