| Frontispiece: Opening of the International Library of Children's Literature |
| On the International Library of Children's Literature |
Masao Tobari |
2 |
| Upon issuing of the "The Window: the journal of the International Library of Children's Literature" |
Kuniko Kameda |
3 |
| <Special feature: commemorating the opening of the International Library of Children's Literature> |
| At the inaugural ceremony |
Address delivered by H.M. the Empress |
4 |
| Words of greeting |
Dr. Barbara Scharioth |
8 |
| The road to the opening of the International Library of Children's Literature |
Mikio Wanaka |
12 |
| "Children's books and reading": report of the International Symposium commemorating the opening of the International Library of Children's Literature |
15 |
| Participating in the IBBY Congress in Columbia |
Kuniko Kameda |
45 |
| ILCL activity report |
48 |
| Children's books from abroad in the collection of ILCL |
55 |
| ILCL in figures |
57 |
| Schedule hereafter |
60 |
| User guide |
61 |
