European
Picture 
Book
Collection

• Background to project:
  The EPBC was designed to help pupils to find out more about their European neighbours through reading the visual narratives of carefully chosen picture books. Here you can find out about how the project began, the theoretical papers that have been presented on European children's literature, and how the materials were initially used in schools.
  
• Teachers' Resource Book:
  The EPBC activities focus on the literary, linguistic and cultural aspects of the visual texts and can be downloaded from this website.
  
• EPBC Books:
  Each story has been carefully selected by an expert in the field of children's literature, and activities have been devised for classroom use.
  
• Ordering Details:
  If you would like to use the European picture books in your school/Education department, all the information for ordering the EPBC materials can be found here.
• Chatline:
  You can chat to teachers in many countries who have used the books in helping their children to understand more about their own national identity whilst gaining a sense of what it means to be European.
  
• EPBC Contacts:
  If you would like to e.mail colleagues who have been involved in the EPBC project, here are their addresses.
  
• Web Site Links:
  This section is currently quite small but we hope it will expand as more children's literature web sites are created.
  
• European School Education Training course (ESET):
  This on-line course is freely available to all. It is designed to help teachers/teacher educators to use the EPBC methodology and has an introduction in more than 20 European languages. The course comprises three modules: Language; Literature; Culture; each of which includes 5 two-hour sessions plus relevant resources. ESET is available in English, French, German, Portuguese and Dutch.
  
• BARFIE Picture Book Collection (BPBC)
  Books And Reading For Intercultural Education is another Comenius funded project which benefits from picture book narratives. Here you will find 12 BARFIE books that use the EPBC methodology.
  
• Catalan Picture Book Collection (CPBC)
  This collection has been developed by students at the Facultat de l'Educació Blaquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, as part of a translation project devised by Maria Gonzalez Davies.