This is a passage from International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature’s entry on Iran: The growing success of children’s literature in Iran can be seen clearly in the development of research, criticism and literary theory in the field. While the IIDCY has been crippled by its intense dependence upon Read more…
Two of the most referenced English encyclopedias about children’s literature include entries on children’s literature in Iran: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature and International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. In the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, edited by Peter Hunt, the entry on Iran opens with an introduction to the poem Drakht-i Read more…
Upon seeing the first images of the figures suspected for the Brussels’ blast on TV, I thought to myself if they had read poems and stories in their childhood, and had developed and deepened their acquaintance with others through various characters and worlds pictured in books, would their mind welcome Read more…
A few days ago, I wrote a comment on a social network with the same title. Soon I received messages from different villages that reflected reports and pictures from their reading activities, training workshops, and book reading clubs. Upon seeing these pictures and messages I feel something has taken place. Read more…
I don’t know if you have ever seen one of those necklaces made by precious heterogeneous stones with different colors or not? We are used to rosary beads and necklaces whose beads and stones look alike and are of the same color, and each bead or stone is dissolved in Read more…
Although Iran is not a member of the Berne Convention and Iranian internal laws do not protect international rights for publishing foreign works in Persian, some Iranian publishers feel an ethical obligation to observe copyright and strive to publish the translation of selected foreign books only after buying their rights. Read more…
When I was a child, a kind of art was popular in Iran, which I can describe as a sort of collective illustration reading. I have been captivated with this art for a while, thinking how greatly it resembles “reading” a picture book or an illustrated story, feeling amazed that Read more…
Persian fallow deer is a rare, endangered animal in Iran, but also the name of an Iranian award for children’s books, the first ceremony of which was held last week. This award is characterized by the participation of the whole family in the act of reading. Parents and children Read more…