November brought some more news, but most of these are of no interest for my collection of Childhood Heroes on Stamps, although they are interesting for a general collection about children's books. So here are the news:
- After San Marino and Italy also Bulgaria issued a stamp about Gianni Rodari. In total four stamps about author anniversaries were issued, which beside Rodari also honour Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and Arthur Hailey. Honestly I think the four black-and-white stamps look a bit sinister.
- Armenia issued this week a stamp about the 150th birthday of Atabek Khnkoyan, who wrote under the pen name Khnko Aper. Never heard of him and not interested in the stamp, but for everyone who likes it, it is available on WOPA.
- The Christmas stamps from Greenland this year show illustrations from the picture book The Most Beautiful Christmas Tree in the World written by Juaaka Lyberth and illustrated by Maja-Lisa Kehlet. Published just in 2019, I think it is very interesting that the book is now already featured on stamps.
- South Korea's Post Week issue of this year shows picture books. Featured are Wave by Lee Suzy, When Spring comes to the DMZ by Lee Uk-bae, Magic Candies by Baek Hee-na and The Goblins and the Pumpkin Porridge Seller by Lee Sang-gyo and Han Byeong-ho. This is a nice set, but as I do not know any of the books, I will most likely not add it to my collection.
- More news also became available for 2021. Most likely the first set of the year will come from Japan. Twenty stamps in two sheet about the Moomins will be issued on 15th January. In June a souvenir sheet from the Czech Republic will feature Kater Mikesch, who had earlier been shown on a German stamp about the Augsburger Puppenkiste. You can find the complete list of stamps that I am currently aware of in the list above. Unfortunately I still have not seen the German programme with dates for 2021, but I suspect that it might become available next week.
Apart from the stamps from Armenia, Bulgaria, Greenland and South Korea mentioned above this month also saw the souvenir sheet about Frakk from Hungary, the sheet about Leo Lionni's Friends from Japan and the Briish Star Trek stamps. So nothing of interest for my collection at all this month, but the next will be better.
To my collection I added this month a FDC about the Raving Rabbids from France as well as the booklet with a special postmark, the Dutch souvenir sheet about Miffy, a maxicard about Singa the Lion from the recent set about Singapore Mascots, a card sent with two Bugs Bunny stamps and the special postmark and two more covers from the USA with DC stamps.
