SUMMARY

Vilė Vėl, the author of the best book for children, written in 2003, considers the importance of language for the spiritual and intellectual development of child in the Introductory of the present issue of RUBINAITIS. Jostein Gaarder kindly permitted to reprint his speech, held in Basel during the 28th IBBY Congress. “Books for a World without Readers?” is the original title of his article. Ingrida Korsakaitė, the well-known book art expert, discusses the most beautiful illustrations of new books for children.

The caption Books of my Childhood contains memoirs and reasonings of poet and member of the Lithuanian Parlament Dalia Teišerskytė, who spent her childhood in Siberia.

The publication of H Ch Andersen Award Acceptance Speech by Tove Jansson is related with the 90th anniversary of the author.

Loreta Žvironaitė reviews new book by Vytautas V. Landsbergis and Sigutė Ach “Dominykas the Horse in Love”; Neringa Mikalauskienė analyses “Le pays ou l’on n’arrive jamais” by André Dhôtel (the book was recognised as the most important translation for young readers in 2003); Valdemaras Kukulas discusses “Holes” by Louis Sachar; two students, Laima Kryževičiūtė and Eglė Obcarskaitė, criticizes “Her der Diebe” by Cornelia Funke.

One may find, what was written about Children’s Literature during the last year in the Bibliografy section, and what children like to read – in the Letters section.

Žurnalas „Rubinaitis“, 2004 Nr. 2 (30)