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About the book
This issue of the annual magazine is dedicated to the Tenth Anniversary of the Association as well as Canadian contribution to worldwide celebration of 2012 as The Year of Janusz Korczak. The issue contains about 40 articles and papers related to Korczak's legacy, pedagogy, child psychology, and children's rights written mostly by Canadian authors. The texts are generously illustrated. Section Korczak's Day in Vancouver consists of proceeding of the University of British Columbia Conference "Janusz Korczak: His Legacy and Children's Rights." Section The Chronicle reflects various activities of the Association in 2012-2013. Section Our books presents new books published by the Association. Section Korczak's Days around the World shows events that took place in Warsaw, Poznan, New York etc. Section Our Word to the World contains a lecture delivered by a member of the Association Dr. R. Krell during Holocaust memorial ceremony in the UN General Assembly Hall in 2012. Section Korczak and the 21st Century includes an article by Dr. Z. Rudnicki (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland). Section Korczak's Traces in Canada presents the article by Dr. O. Medvedeva-Nathoo. In section The Korczak Book Club authors review new books related to Korczak. Section Inspired by Korczak includes poems, fragment of a play and a song. In section Korczak's Legacy English translation of a fragment of Korczak's work "The Child's Right to Respect" has been published. Finally, Section Who's Who in the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada presents members of the Board of the Association. All proceeds of sales of this book go to charity projects conducted by the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada.