The regular ‘Focus IBBY’ section highlights news of IBBY projects and events, and the ‘Books on Books’ section recently included reviews of texts from China, France, Japan, Poland, Scotland, and the USA.

[1] Every two years an issue of Bookbird is devoted to information about the illustrators and authors nominated for IBBY’s Hans Christian Andersen Award.

After the winners are announced, a subsequent issue carries articles about these, and also about the short-listed nominees.

Contributors include articles by or about those who have been involved with the story of Bookbird over some sixty years, providing insights into the development of children’s literature in Europe and further afield.

Back issues from 1963 to 2013 are archived and free to access at Australian Literature Online.