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Illustration: David Pintor
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Editorial
Dear IBBY friends!
For some of us the Bologna Children's Book Fair in March was a great occasion to meet again. As you can see on the photo below, 22 delegates from 17 countries joined our meeting of the European Sections.
What occupies and touches us all is the appalling war in Ukraine, we are especially concerned about the many children in danger or on the run. We therefore, decided to work on the 2023 IBBY Regional Conference in Bologna and focus on the topic, "Finding a Safe Home in Books". Sadly, this is a subject that is concerning many, many people all over the world.
The organizing committee has been formed and will develop the programme. If you have any suggestions for possible aspects or speakers, please let me know.
Our thoughts are particularly with Alla Gordiienko and all our colleagues at IBBY Ukraine. We hope and wish that peace will soon return to their country.
Yours, Doris Breitmoser
(Member of the IBBY EC & Liaison Officer Europe)
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18th Yerevan Children's Book Fair
The Book Fair took place on February 18-19, 2022, in cooperation with the National Children’s Library of Armenia and was attended by writers, illustrators, cultural figures, readers and their parents. On February 19, the birthday of the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Toumanian, National Book Giving Day was celebrated by awarding the library’s best readers of the year.
Armenian writers, illustrators, translators and publishers included in the IBBY Honour List 2020 were also awarded with diplomas. Furthermore, there were many other events such as reading-aloud hours, workshops, theatrical performances, meetings with authors, illustrators, publishers and book discussions.
A new project called Your First Book was initiated with librarians gifting books to newborns and their mothers in maternity hospitals. The aim of the project is to emphasis the role of family reading in every child’s life since early childhood.
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IBBY Armenia's New Book
Two new stories have been published by IBBY Armenia in a new book. One is Snowman by Edgar Tatikyan, the other Miraculous by Hovik Mkhitaryan. Both were winners of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Contest organized by IBBY Armenia in 2019. The book presentation was held at the 18th Yerevan Children’s Book Fair.
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Children's Book and Music Week
The Children’s Book and Music Week in cooperation with the Children’s Library of Armenia was held on April 1 to 8 with exhibitions, meetings with authors, storytelling and musical hours. On April 2, International Children’s Book Day was celebrated with a theatrical performance based on French fairy tales.
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Centre of Research and Didactics
The artistic diversity of Austrian picture books was the main focus of the exhibition "Variety of Picture Books" at the Graz University College Gallery. The exhibition was curated by Sabine Fuchs and others. From December 2021 to March 2022, the original works of Austrian illustrators could be viewed and compared with the books. An exhibition catalogue was published and is still available. A panel discussion with the artists, Carla Frühwirth and Willy Puchner, the publisher Katrin Feiner (Tyrolia) and the managing director of Design Austria Severin Filek, concluded the overview of current picture book art in Austria.
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Variety of Picture Books
The symposium Variety of [in] Picture Books. Representation of Diversity took place at the Graz University from March 17-18, 2022. The academic discussion included artists, literary scholars and teachers of literature, on various topics such as representation of gender, family, age, religion or disability in silent books (wordless) and picture books. The talks and lectures can be read in an autumn issue of PHSt's Didacticum.
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Anni Swan Medal for Annika Sandelin
Annika Sandelin received the 2021 medal for her book Silkesapan's skratt (Silkmonkey's laughter), which is a beautiful story about friendship, loss and longing. This special book talks about grief in a sensitive and very believable way. The powerful illustrations are by Linda Bondestam. The Anni Swan Medal is a children's and young people's literature award given by IBBY Finland every three years. It is awarded to a domestic work that is of an artistically high standard and distinctive in its subject matter and expression.
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IBBY Finland's New Website
The new website will include more material in English. Meanwhile, current articles in English, related to, for example, Spanish children’s literature in Finland, can be read here: https://ibbyfinland.fi/in-english/
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© Claudie-Rocard-Lapperousaz
Marie-Aude Murail, Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award
Born in 1954 in Le Havre, daughter of a poet and sister of writers Lorris and Elvire (known as Moka), Marie-Aude Murail has been writing since the age of 12. She began publishing in the 1980s and has since pursued a career as a daring and diverse author for young people, without ever losing sight of her readers. The Andersen Award jury said, "Over 30 years, Murail has written nearly a hundred books for children and young adults. Her dossier notes that in many ways, she embodies the values of IBBY: committed to the cause of children and reading, observing the world seriously, and with humour and caring optimism, opening numerous windows on the major stakes of contemporary society."
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IBBY France Members at the Library
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Creating a Library for Migrants, with the support of the IBBY-Yamada Fund
The Emergency Accommodation Centre for Migrants in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the southern suburbs of Paris, welcomes migrant women, families and couples. It is run by the NGO Emmaüs Solidarité. Children and young adults are schooled within the Centre. Educators specialized in teaching French as a foreign language, teachers in plastic arts, music and sports, all work in the school, which was established by the CASNAV. With the support of the 2022 IBBY-Yamada Fund, IBBY France is setting up a library in the school as well as a mobile library that will circulate in the Centre. Here are some aspects of the project:
Collecting new books: after organizing a weeding marathon to sort the books donated to the Centre, IBBY France started gathering books in Amharic, Bambara, Dari, Farsi, French, Pashto, Tigrinya and Urdu; these are the languages spoken by the children living in the Centre.
Setting up a library management system: an open source programme has been installed and is used to retrieve bibliographical data from international library servers in order to create the library’s catalogue. A barcode scanner, printed barcodes bearing the name of the school and library cards are also used
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Mobile equipment: taking the library outdoors to meet the children and their parents outside school facilities would be a way of creating a link between them and the library. It will also help them understand that the library is not only there for schooling purposes, but also for their enjoyment and well-being.
Inviting storytellers: organizing story-telling sessions in French, but also in the languages spoken by the students is the perfect way to create a bond between the children and books. It also illustrates the fact that the children’s native languages are recognised as valuable and have a special place in the reading activities.
Members of IBBY France work in the library on Saturdays; an online schedule has been set up and volunteers sign up as they wish. We already have 622 books in the library that are ready to be borrowed by children. While continuing the cataloguing process, we will soon organize the training sessions on how to use a library management system and how to bring a library to life.
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© Poster of Tomi Ungerer on the occasion of the American Institut of Graphic Arts' 50th anniversary, D.A.: Joyce Morrow, 1966, in Affiches, Tomi Ungerer. L'Ecole des loisirs
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Call for Papers: International Conference on Tomi Ungerer
The international conference Tomi Ungerer, border hopper (1931-2019): Languages, images and childhood will be held on November 17 and 18, 2022 in Paris. Coined by the artist himself, the term border hopper is undoubtedly the most apposite way of describing Tomi Ungerer. It pertinent to one who: was raised on the border between Germany and France; spoke four languages – French, English, German and of course Alsatian; who has lived in Colmar, New York, and Nova Scotia, before finally putting his suitcase down in Ireland.
We wish to honour him as a border hopper across countries, languages, narratives, fictional worlds, cultures and readerships. We invite participants to submit papers that address the author-illustrator, bearing in mind how much he inspired other artists throughout his lifetime – as he will doubtless do in the future. The aim is to map out the influences, legacy patterns, rewritings and common imaginary worlds based on the indisputable modernity of Ungerer’s work.
Deadline for submissions extended to May 8, 2022. More information here.
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German Children's Literature Award 2022
On March 17, the 2022 shortlist of the German Children's Literature Award was presented online. The presentation is still available at the YouTube-Channel of IBBY Germany.
Since 1956, the German Children’s Literature Award has been given annually to outstanding works of children’s and young adult literature. It has been an international award since it was established: books that have been translated from other languages are just as eligible as original German books.
Each year, a jury of critics awards works in the categories of Picture Book, Children’s Book, Young Adult Book, and Non-Fiction. Furthermore, an independent young adult jury awards its own prize. The juries nominate six titles that have been published the previous year in each category. From those, they select the winning titles. The awards carry a value of 10,000 Euro each and can be split between authors, illustrators and translators.
The German Children’s Literature Award is organized by the Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur, the German IBBY Section. This year’s winners will be announced on October 21, 2022 at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Juliane Pickel, Eva Rottmann, Rebecca Elbs and Lisa Krusche, Kranichstein Laureautes 2022
© Calra Deiters, Paolo Caputo, Bianca Weimer, Charlotte Krusche
Kranichstein Grants 2022
Each year, IBBY Germany and the German Literature Fund offer four grants to new authors of young adult and children's fiction in German. Each grant amounts to 18,000 Euro.
The 2022 Kranichstein Grants for young adult fiction went to Juliane Pickel for her novel Krummer Hund (Beltz & Gelberg) and Eva Rottmann for her novel Mats und Milad (Jacoby & Stuart). The 2022 Kranichstein Grants for children's books went to Rebecca Elbs for Leo und Lucy (Carlsen) and Lisa Krusche for Das Universum ist verdammt groß und supermystisch (Beltz & Gelberg).
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Literanauts - A Project by Young Adults for their Peers
The "Literanauts" is a nationwide reading promotion project established and organized by IBBY Germany. The programme focuses on a peer-to-peer approach: young adults with an affinity for reading, organized in reading clubs, are first trained and then become active in motivating others. The goal of these Literanauts is to get children and young adults, who may have had little to do with books so far, excited about literature. For them and with them, the Literanauts develop regional events that focus on books. A national meeting of Literanauts took place from April 29 to May 1, 2022 in Bad Hersfeld. The meeting was an occasion to get to know each other, to train and to prepare their own projects, as well as to exchange experiences and to network.
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Waldemar Bonsels Foundation.
For more information see www.jugendliteratur.org/literanauten.
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Celebration of the 2022 International Children's Book Day
The Greek Section of IBBY celebrated the 2022 ICBD by organizing a welcoming event at the “Book Castle” at the National Library of Greece. It was a great honour that Mr. Walter Bernyck, the Political Counsellor of the Embassy of Canada to the Hellenic Republic, gave the opening remarks and presented one of the Greek Section awards, while the Undersecretary of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Ms. Zetta Makri, shared a virtual message on the importance of children’s literature and reading.
This year’s ICBD poster, sponsored by IBBY Canada and illustrated by the artist Julie Flett, has been printed and distributed with the support of Patakis Publications. The poster message is written by Richard Van Camp and translated into Greek by the author and Honorary President of the Greek Section Ms. Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou.
IBBY Greece awarded diplomas to the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen nominees, Maria Papayanni for writing and Iris Samartzi for illustration, as well as to the 2020 IBBY Honour List nominees and their publishers, Vagelis Iliopoulos for writing, Philippos Photiadis for illustration and Anastasia Deligianni for translation.
Awards were also given to people and institutions, such as teachers, librarians, volunteers and libraries, that promote reading for children and young people, as well as to authors, illustrators and translators for books published in 2021. All the books that were submitted to the jury, will be given to schools, libraries, universities and other institutions, in connection with IBBY Greece activities in Greece and abroad.
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IBBY Greece Offers Silent Books to Children from Ukraine
Members of the Greek Section of IBBY visited the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Center Berehynia in Athens, and offered 50 silent books to children who have recently arrived from the war zone in Ukraine.
IBBY Greece also initiated the creation of specific books for the reading project Pictures with a Voice under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture. This project involves the creation of five original silent books based on topics related to the 17 Goals for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations. IBBY Greece also offered Greek books for the support of the school library for children from Ukraine who already live in Greece and are learning the Greek language.
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The Great Reading Festivity
The final event of the reading promotion programme Children’s, Youth and Parents’ Jury 2021, was the The Great Reading Festivity that took place online on March 18, 2022 at the National Library of Latvia. Authors and publishers of 15 books that readers had acknowledged as the best (three books in each of five age groups) received their awards. In 2021, the participants of the programme were 859 schools and libraries, including centres in 30 countries for the diaspore.
The highest number of votes in the age group 9+ went to the book by the Ukrainian writer Halina Vdovichenko, 36 and 6 Cats (illustrator Natalia Haida, publisher Latvijas Mediji). Markus, 9 years, writes: “I am sorry for the abandoned cats. I liked this book because the abandoned cats found a new home and occupation. It is important that someone helps you in a difficult situation and it is even more important that you yourself want to figure something out and do something.”
The author in her video greeting to the Latvian readers, emphasised how important it is in any complicated situation to unite and always find a way out. And always leave this situation as a winner: “At this moment I do not say good-bye, but I say – till our next meeting! Glory to Ukraine!”
You can watch the Great Reading Festivity here.
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From the right: Viive Noor, Silvija Tretjakova, Gundega Muzikante and Ilze Stikane
© Kristina Luhaers
IBBY Latvia Annual Spring Conference
The conference, organized by IBBY Latvia in cooperation with the National Library of Latvia (NLL) took place on April 12, 2022. It started with the presentation of the 2020 IBBY Honour List certificates to Aivars Kļavis, Anete Melece, Dace Meiere and their publishers.
The theme of this year’s conference was The Buds of Books Blossom in Pictures. As always, the conference evaluated original literature for children and young adults, published in 2021 (Rudīte Rinkēviča, assistant professor of Daugavpils University). The art historian Baiba Nurža reported on the latest developments in Latvian children’s book illustration and design, the head of the Children’s Literature Centre (CLC) of the NLL Silvija Tretjakova gave information about the Tiny Books from Baltic Authors project, and the librarian of the CLC of the NLL Ilze Marga reported on Latvia’s participation in the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava.
Viive Noor, an illustrator and head of the gallery of the CLC, shared her experience of organizing Tallinn’s Triennial of Illustrators and international thematic exhibitions. The illustrator Elīna Brasliņa spoke about picture-book projects at the Art Academy of Latvia, and Signe Vanadziņa shared her art therapy experience.
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Masterclass in Bologna on Tiny Books
Tiny Books from Baltic Authors Travel Around the World
The Latvian artist and illustrator Mārtiņš Zutis presented the Tiny Books project at the Vilnius Book Fair and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and were connected to masterclasses. The masterclass for children at Bologna Latvian School was led by Latvian artists Anna Vaivare, Mārtiņš Zutis and the writer Lauris Gundars. The Tiny Books have recently been translated into Ukrainian.
Visitors to the exhibition, The Baltic Way at the Korean National Library in Seoul (from March 14 to April 10, 2022), were able to enjoy the Tiny Books in the Korean language. On this occasion, three tiny books had been translated into Korean: Quiet waters by Agnese Vanaga (Latvia) and Gerda Märtens (Estonia), Woof! by Indrek Koff (Estonia) and Rūta Briede (Latvia), and A Very Short Story of a Very Long Friendship by Evelina Daciūtė (Lithuania) and Anna Ring (Estonia). These tiny books had been selected by the organizers of the exhibition.
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IBBY Lithuania 2021 Laureates for the best books of the year
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A Poster Created by Children to Celebrate a Special Day
This year, on April 2, the International Children's Book Day was celebrated for the 30th time in Lithuania and the best books of the year were selected! These are the longest-running children's literature awards in independent Lithuania.
For this special occasion, IBBY Lithuania organized a competition and invited all children to create a Children's Book Day poster. There were wonderful paintings from various cities and towns. The winner was five-year-old Smiltė from Klaipėda. Her poster message is: “To read is fun!” The poster is available here.
Every year, IBBY Lithuania rewards writers, translators, and illustrators for the best books of the year for children and teenagers, as well as the research and dissemination of children's literature. This year the list of nominees was announced at the Vilnius Book Fair, and the winners were awarded during International Children's Book Day during a solemn ceremony.
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IBBY Netherland Starts SDG Book Club
Following the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Book Club, IBBY-Netherlands is in the process of starting a Dutch chapter together with various partner organizations, including IPA, NBD Biblion, the Dutch Reading Foundation and IFLA.
To help children between 6 and 15 years old to become acquainted with the SDG, the Dutch chapter will make an annotated list of books with related topics. First, a long-list of books will be generated, from which a jury of representatives from the collaborating organizations will reduce to 3-5 books per age category and the relevant SDG. In addition, there will be ready-made lesson plans and suggestions about how to work with the books in schools and libraries.
The Dutch SDG Book Club will be launched in October during the Dutch Children’s Book Week, which this year has the appropriate theme Gi-Ga-Groen (Gi-Ga-Green) about nature and the environment.
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Professor Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer Retires
Prof. Dr. Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer was a professor of Children's Literature at Leiden University from 1998-2013, and from 2002 at Tilburg University. Helma van Lierop has published on subjects such as girls' literature, adolescent literature, age studies and life writing. In 2014, she co-authored Een land van waan en wijs, a standard work on the history of Dutch children's literature. In 2011, together with Toin Duijx, she took the initiative to establish a master's degree in Children's Literature at Tilburg University and from 2019, the programme participates in the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Children's Literature, Media and Culture.
For many years, Van Lierop was chair of the Dutch IBBY section and editor of the former Dutch journal on children’s literature Literatuur zonder leeftijd. She is also on the advisory board of the journal International Research in Children's Literature. During her keynote speech at the IRSCL conference last year, she discussed her research over the past decades. Van Lierop may have retired, but she will certainly remain active in the field of children's literature.
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Nominations for the IBBY Outstanding Collection of Books for Young People with Disabilities
This year, IBBY-Netherlands has nominated three books for the IBBY 2023 Outstanding Selection of Books for Young People with Disabilities: De tunnel [The Tunnel] by Anna Woltz, Koningskind [King Solomon’s Daughter] by Selma Noort and Len en zijn broer [Len and his brother] by Maud Wilms.
Both De tunnel and Koningskind are historical novels by acclaimed Dutch children’s book writers, in which the disabilities of the protagonists play an important role, but at the same time are not the primary subjects of these thrilling and adventurous stories. Len en zijn broer is a thoughtful and sensitive book about life with a sibling with a disability. It has the powerful message that everyone has their strengths and can learn from each other.
Read the English presentations of De tunnel and Koningskind at the website of the Dutch Literary Foundation.
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IBBY Travelling Collections
Two IBBY book collections - Silent Books 2019 and IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2019 - arrived in St. Petersburg following the 37th IBBY International Congress in Moscow in September 2021.
From December 2021 to April 2022, there were various thematic exhibitions based on the books, meetings for specialists and publishers, book reviews for students and "silent readings" with children and their parents.
Both collections let us expand our horizons: they were discussed with children's literature experts, and opened new ways for reading promotion and inspired new collaborations - such as the Silent Book Contest for art school and university students. To find out how to partner with this project, write to: [email protected].
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Stories are Wings ...
We celebrated the 2022 International Children's Book Day with young readers, reading mentors, artists, and many other book lovers. Together with the Slovene Writers' Association, the Otrok in knjiga/Child and Book journal, the Slovenian Reading Badge Society, the Slovenian PEN and the Slovenian Book Agency, we prepared the traditional ICBD celebration. This year it was united with the Solidarity Recital of Children's Literature Authors for children coming from Ukraine.
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International Children's Book Day & Anniversaries
Together with the Ljubljana City Library amd Pionirska - Centre for Children's Literature and Librarianship we prepared reading promotion activities to intertwine this year's ICBD message with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the beloved Slovenian children's literature author Ela Peroci.
The ICBD message and the reading promotion activities were presented at a symposium prepared by Pionirska and devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Sinji Galeb collection - the oldest Slovenian collection for young readers.
IBBY Slovenia will also be celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. On this occasion, it received a Special Acknowledgement by the President of the Republic of Slovenia for the promotion of reading among young readers and for spreading the message of peace, coexistence and cooperation.
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Peter Svetina, finalist of the Hans Christian Andersen Award
Slovenian Nominees for International 2022 Awards
At the Bologna book fair, we kept our fingers crossed for the Slovenian nominees. Slovenian author Peter Svetina was among the finalists for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for the second time! Our illustrator nominee Damijan Stepančič was on the jury recommends list for the third time, this year with his silent picture book The Lighthouse.
Four Slovenian artists were nominated for the ALMA: poet, writer and story-teller Anja Štefan, poet Boris A. Novak and the illustrators Polona Lovšin and Ana Zavadlav. The Slovenian Reading Badge Society was nominated for the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award, while Darja Lavrenčič Vrabec and Slavko Pregl were nominated for the IBBY-iRead Oustanding Reading Promoter Award.
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First Seminario IBBY Iberoamericano
On March 16 and 17, 2022, OEPLI organized - with the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of IBBY Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) - the first Iberoamerican IBBY Seminar on Children and Youth Books. It was held online with the participation of 14 LAC sections, including professionals from the whole sector of children’s and youth’s literature. They shared projects developed in different countries united by the same language. There were around 4,000 participants and more than 10,000 views, most of them from Spain and Latin America, but also from other European countries and Asia. The participants were active through the chat feature with questions and comments.
The seminar was structured around five main themes: reading promotion, mediation, the publishing industry, creators and our languages. It featured masterly discussions by Ana Maria Machado, Michèle Petit, Maria Teresa Andruetto and Juan Hernaz.
All the preparatory work was essential for the success of the seminar. For more than three weeks, over 50 people were working together through online meetings to prepare the documentation and content that was presented in the discussion panels.
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GONAGORRY, The Podcast in Basque Language
GONAGORRI is the title of the podcast that Galtzagorri Elkartea, the Basque Children's and Youth Literature Association, has created on Children's and Youth Literature, thanks to the help of the Basque Government and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council. It can be heard using the Galtzagorri website, as well as on Spotify, Ivoox and Baleunkunk. Gonagorri has already published eight podcasts in 2021. Each of them lasts about 15 minutes and deals with a different topic of Children's and Youth Literature: sex and youth literature, the illustrated album, emotions and youth literature, digital fiction, silent albums... It is aimed at mediators, families, young people, etc. All the podcasts are recorded entirely in Basque. Journalist Miriam Luki conducts the main interviews and reports. Each podcast also contains a section dedicated to storytelling, in which different narrators intervene. They all end with a book recommendation from Lore Agirrezabal. The project will continue its journey during 2022, with another eight new chapters, thanks to the help of the Kutxa Foundation. All podcasts can be heard here.
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News from Catalonia
The book Especies extraordinàries by Salvador Comelles, illustrated by Christian Inaraja, and Ametlla, translated by Anna Puente were selected for the 2022 IBBY Honour List.
IBBY Catalonia collaborated with the first Iberoamerican IBBY and Catalan illustration exhibition, Spotlight, at the London Book Fair. IBBY Catalonia was also involved in the project Sant Jordi als Hospitals, with several hospitals of Catalonia. On the occasion of the Book Day on April 23, many Catalan authors visited children in hospital and talked with them about their books.
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Fifth Swiss Reading Aloud Day
On May 18, 2022, the Swiss Reading Aloud Day will take place for the fifth time all over Switzerland: in schools and kindergartens, libraries, and at home. The Swiss Reading Aloud Day thrives on the commitment of volunteers. Private individuals, schools and libraries, cultural institutions and event organizers conduct their own reading-aloud events where stories are read to children and young people. Well-known personalities from various areas of public life are supporting the Swiss Institute for Children's and Youth Media (SIKJM) and the Reading Aloud Day. As official ambassadors, they will read to children on the day, thereby setting an important example for the promotion of reading.
People can register their reading-aloud activities on our website www.schweizervorlesetag.ch and find out about the numerous reading-aloud events. The Reading Aloud Day is an initiative of SIKJM in cooperation with numerous other partners.
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Swiss Children's and Youth Book Prize 2022
On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 3 pm., the Swiss Children's and Youth Book Prize 2022 will be awarded in the presence of the nominated authors and illustrators during the Solothurn Literature Days.
The shortlist comprises five books:
- Astor by Tito Moccia, Antipodes 2021
- Es war einmal und wird noch lange sein by Johanna Schaible, Hanser 2021
- Herr Bert und Alfonso jagen einen Dieb by Laura D’Arcangelo, Atlantis 2021
- Moni heisst mein Pony. Spoken Word & Cartoons by Andrea Gerster (text) and Lika Nüssli (illustrations), SJW Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk 2021
- Le voisin by Walid Serageldine, La Joie de lire 2021
The Award is endowed with a total of 20,000 Swiss francs. The jury selected the shortlist from over 100 titles submitted by 75 publishers. Every year, the Swiss Children's and Youth Book Prize honours outstanding picture books, children's books, and books for adolescents - as well as nonfiction books and comics aimed at a young audience. The prize highlights the importance of a diverse and vibrant children's and youth literature in motivating children and young people to read. The award is supported by the Swiss Institute for Children's and Youth Media (SIKJM), the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association and the Solothurn Literature Days.
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Literature Lab for Libraries
Between January 2021 and March 2022, the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Literature SIKJM has offered a new further education course to professionalize the teaching of children’s literature in libraries. In the SIKJM Literature Lab, graduates develop creative and playful projects for primary school children. The children should be able to participate in the richness of literature, read and act themselves, think and play together, experience stories and learn about the world, whether in school or in their free time.
The first courses took place in the autumn of 2021 as part of the Literature Lab pilot programme and have been received with great enthusiasm in libraries and schools. From now on, the courses are open to all libraries. The programmes are easily adaptable for the diverse circumstances and requirements in the German-speaking libraries throughout Switzerland.
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