A selection of articles was published in an Open Access Special Issue of the Issues in Early Education, 3(34), 2016 – edited by Małgorzata Cackowska

• Article 1: Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer & Jörg Meibauer,
• Article 2: ABC for Father and Mother and Me: Representations of children as consumers in the picturebook of the interwar period by Elina Druker,
• Article 3: Picturebooks and politics: Israeli children’s picturebooks during the shift from pre-state to statehood by Yael Darr
• Article 4: Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben
• Article 5: From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos
• Article 6: A door to the unknown: crossing boundaries through picturebook art by Katarzyna Smyczyńska
• Article 7: Producing a popular image of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous peoples in picturebooks in English-speaking societies by Aleksandra Wierucka
• Article 8: “True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka
• Article 9: Attractive lives on attractive pages: Polish illustrated biographical books for young readers by Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna
• Article 10: Visual representations of war in Polish and Scandinavian picturebooks. A metaphorical perspective by Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska
• Article 11: Social issues in children picturebook apps and their reception by the parents of children in early education by Małgorzata Cackowska & Michał Zając