FROM THE EDITORS

Abstract

The 21 st issue of Children’s Readings is not the first issue of our
journal devoted to the links between Russian children’s literature and
other national children’s literature. Studies on Scandinavian children’s
literature, on Russian-German contacts in the sphere of publishing and
literature for children, on Chinese, and more broadly Eastern, literature
for children and young people have been presented in the pages of
Children’s Readings in different years. The peculiarity of this issue is
that it is entirely devoted to the Russian-Italian relations in children’s
literature and created jointly with our Italian colleagues. The focus
of research interest is the range of works that have managed to cross
the borders of national literature, factors influencing their success on a
different national ground, processes of cultural transfer and reception of
Italian children’s literature in Russia and Russian children’s literature in
Italy.