The European Network of Picturebook Research is a pioneering network of European-based scholars researching picture books from around the world.Colomer Martínez, T. "Recerca I Formació De Professionals En El Camp De La Literatura Infantil I Juvenil" ("Research and Training of Professionals in the Field of children's and Young Adult Literature"). Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, Vol. 11, Num. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 9-26, https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Bellaterra/article/view/v11-n1-colomer.
The Network was founded in Barcelona in 2007, at the suggestion of Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer. Its core group includes children's literature scholars Evelyn Arizpe, Teresa Colomer, Elina Druker, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Maria Nikolajeva, and Cecilia Silva-Díaz. Since 2007, it has held a biannual international conference.
Conference Year Location Theme 1st 2007 Barcelona New Impulses in Picturebook Research: Aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picturebooks 2nd 2009 Glasgow Beyond Borders: Art, narrative and culture in picturebooks 3rd 2011 Tübingen History and Theory of the Picturebook 4th 2013 Stockholm Picturebooks as Meeting Places: Text, image, ideology 5th 2015 Gdansk Picturebooks, Democracy and Social Change 6th 2017 Padova Home and Lived-In Spaces in Picturebooks from the 1950s to the Presenthttps://www.childrensliterature-unipd.it/ 7th 2019 Norway Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks 8th 2021 Tel Aviv Picture Books in Time 9th 2023 Osijek The Picturebook Between Fiction and RealityConference website https://hidk.hr/en/enprconf2023/ Retrieved 26 Jan 2025 10th 2025 Lisbon Understanding the world: Multiculturality, interculturality and global citizenship in picturebooksConference website. https://picturebookresearch2025.fcsh.unl.pt/ Retrieved 26 Jan 2025
Publications: Ricerche Di Pedagogia E Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14(2) (2019), special issue: Home, Lived-In Spaces and Childhood in European Picturebooks from 1945 to the Present Dayhttps://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/10029 Retrieved 26 Jan 2025
See also Picture book Silent books Children's literature International Board on Books for Young Readers List of associations for research in children's literature International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)
References
External links Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University Planet Picture Book (picture books from around the world)