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Dear colleagues from the European sections of IBBY,

IBBY has launched an appeal to help IBBY Lebanon bring relief to the Syrian children in Lebanon. Refugees are pouring over the bordersin their thousands and by the beginning of September there were estimated to be 723,000 refugees in Lebanon – for a country with apopulation of just under 4 million people that is a lot of extra people to cope with. By the end of this year the number of Syrian childrenrefugees is expected to reach half a million in Lebanon. The proposed therapeutic programme using books, theatre, and other methods tohelp children understand their own feelings, express them and recognise those of others was administered to 5,000 children between theages of 7-14, who were exposed to violence during the war and then the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006. In both situations the resultsachieved with children proved successful and rewarding. IBBY Lebanon relies on donations to finance this programme. More information onthe project and on how to donate on IBBY's website.

During the European regional meeting in Bologna, in March 2013, a project had emerged: to create a website for IBBY Europe,presenting selections of books in European languages. The idea was to promote quality children books and to inform librarians,booksellers, teachers, parents, publishers, and everyone interested in children's literature, about books for children published in languagesthey may not speak. It was decided, during the meeting in Bologna, that a website would be set up and that every NS in Europe wouldselect 10 fiction books in its own language and input them in the website. The website is now ready; it is very easy to use. Guidelines on howto input information in the website will be sent to every NS in Europe. We hope to be able to show the website in Bologna, in March 2014!

Angela Lebedeva and Hasmig Chahinian

Greetings from Istanbul!

IBBY Executive CommitteeFrom left to right standing: Akoss Ofori-Mensah (Ghana), Liz Page (Switzerland), Junko Yokota (USA), Hasmig Chahinian (France), Timotea Vrablova (Slovakia), Redza Ahmad

Khairuddin (Malaysia), Marilar Aleixandre (Spain), Azucena Galindo (Mexico), Angela Lebedeva (Russia) and Ellis Vance (USA).Sitting from left to right: Valerie Coghlan (Ireland), Gülçin Alpöge, (Turkey), Luzmaria Stauffenegger (Switzerland), María Jesús Gil (Spain) and Kiyoko Matsuoka (Japan).

© Tala Necipoglu.

IBBY EC meets in Istanbul

The IBBY Executive Committee met for its second 2013 meeting in Istanbul 27-28 August. IBBY Turkey and the Bogaziçi University werethe generous and gracious hosts. The meeting was held at the Department of Education on campus close by to the Bosphorus. Thehospitality was splendid and the IBBY EC warmly thanks all those who made its stay so memorable.

The subcommittees worked on the 26th and the 29th of August and the EC meeting was held on the 27 and 28th of August. Gulçin Alpögereported on the progress made towards the organization of the 36th IBBY Congress, that will be held on September 1-4, 2018, in Istanbul,Turkey.

Bookbird has a new editor!

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The board of Bookbird, Inc. is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Björn Sundmark as incomingeditor with effect from 2015 until 2018 inclusive. Dr Sundmark is Associate Professor of English at the Facultyof Education, Malmö University, Sweden. He is currently research editor of Barnboken, an online children'sliterature journal published by the Swedish Institute of Children's Books and is a former editor of Educare, aneducational research journal published by Malmö University. He is on the board of the Swedish NationalCultural Council. He is a member of IBBY, Sweden and is a member of the advisory editorial board ofBookbird.

Commenting on his appointment, Dr Sundmark stated his commitment to maintaining the high publicationstandards of Bookbird, remarking that "my vision for Bookbird begins with what it is: a rare bird combiningthe academic with the journalistic, a creature both international and regional, a publication for the expert aswell as for the interested layperson. Most publications in the field are either oriented towards academia,publishing professionals or book lovers, but Bookbird caters successfully for members of the children'sliterature community, whatever their perspectives, throughout the world. I would like to keep it that way".

Dr Sundmark will succeed Dr Roxanne Harde, Associate Professor of English, Associate Dean, Research andMcCalla University Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, whose term of office as editor of Bookbird

concludes in 2014.

See you in Mexico!

34th IBBY International Congress Mexico City September 10-13, 2014MAY EVERYONE REALLY MEAN EVERYONE

Do you want to know more about the keynote speakers at the IBBY Congress in Mexico? Or the plenaryspeakers? Do you want to have information about the discussion panels, the IBBY activities or the socialevents? Just click here for an update on what's in store for you at the IBBY Congress!

3 questions to... María Jesús Gil

In this column we address 3 questions to a member of a European Section of IBBY.

In this issue, meet María Jesús Gil from IBBY Spain!

Do you have a name to suggest for the next issue? Send us a mail!

1. You have been the President of the Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury since 2010. Whatcan you tell us about this experience?

The Hans Christian Andersen Award, the most prestigious award in literature and books for children hasan international jury whose members are democratically chosen in General Assembly from candidates ofIBBY National Sections.

This way, above political matters and borders, creators from all countries have the opportunity to beconsidered by the jury, who works very hard in order to select from among the international nomineesthe most talented authors and illustrators in a world that needs, today more than ever, excellence in thestories for children and young adults.

To preside over the selection process for a second time next year is a unique opportunity to me in both, the personal and professionalaspect. And it is also a great responsibility. To coordinate a group of so diverse and talented jurors is a great honor and a great experiencevery inspiring and enriching for me. This year we have ten experts from ten different countries all over the world. For the 2014, 28 authorsand 30 illustrators from 33 countries are candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards. It is a very hard work but at the same timevery exciting to study deeply the works of each nominee.


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The 2012 Hans Christian Andersen JuryFrom left to right, back row: Anastasia Arkhipova (Russia), Ernest Bond (USA), Sabine Fuchs (Austria), Eva Kaliskami (Greece), Liz Page (IBBY, Jury secretary).

Front row: Elda Nogueira (representing IBBY), Sahar Tarhandeh (Iran), María Jesús Gil (Spain, President of the Jury), Regina Zilberman (Brazil), Ayfer Gürdal Ünal (Turkey),Françoise Ballenger (France), Nora Lía Sormani (Argentina).

2. What is the most interesting and exciting IBBY event you participated in?

Generally speaking I enjoy very much IBBY activities, specially attending the IBBYCongresses. Should I choose one, the IBBY Congress at Santiago de Compostela, inSeptember 2010, was very important for the Spanish IBBY Section, mainly for theGalician section (GALIX). It was a great success and all the participants liked very muchthe programme and the city.

3. If we were in Madrid, and you wanted to take us to a special place, where wouldthat be?

I would like to bring you to have a nice walk around the Paseo del Prado, and to visit one ortwo of the several museums we have in this area. And to have some nice pintxos and a cupof wine, of course!

The Cristal Palace in the Retiro Park. © María Jesús Gil

Echoes from the European sections

From Belgium

O Mundo – The World in a LibraryAn initiative of Stichting Lezen and the Flemish branch of IBBY Belgium

"Many classrooms in Flanders are coloured. With the books of O Mundo – the World in a Library we light upthese colours. And if the classes are not coloured? Then colour enters through these books".Majo de Saedeleer

1. MotivationOn October 12th 2011 Majo de Saedeleer, director of Stichting Lezen and president of the Belgian IBBYsection - Flemish branch, received the Filson Steers Mariman Prize for Education. She wished to use theprize money to develop a project for children from abroad who move to Flanders. These youngsters getimmersed in the Flemish language, customs and culture and – with luck – also in Flemish books. Thecultural richness of their native country is often overlooked.

This is the reason Majo de Saedeleer envisaged to employ Stichting Lezen's international network (IBBY) to trace the most beautiful books inother cultures, to purchase several copies and to translate them into Dutch. Through Stichting Lezen's national network these books wouldthen be introduced to teachers in multicultural classrooms.

The aim is to select excellent books from all over the world which enable migrant children to share something about themselves and theirbackground and to open up the eyes of all children in the class to the value of a multicultural society.

2. Pilot ProjectStichting Lezen identified the top ten home countries of foreign children in Flemish primary schools. Through the IBBY-network (InternationalBoard on Books for Young People) and its widespread international contacts Stichting Lezen looked for beautiful books in these ten countries:


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Portugal, Turkey, Poland, Ghana, Italy, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Iran and Morocco.

O Mundo num Segundo (Around the world in one second) / Isabel Minhos Martins and Bernardo Carvalho (Planeta Tangerina,Portugal)Pamietnik Blumki (Blumka's diary) / Iwona Chmielewska (Media Rodzina, Poland)The canoe's story / Asare Meshak (Subsaharan Publishers, Ghana)Vorrei avere… (I would like to have…) / Giovanni Zoboli and Simona Mulazzani (Topipittori, Italy)Haló, haló, pani Mačka! (Hello Mrs Cat!) / Ľuboslav Paľo (Artforum, Slovakia)Kirmizi Elma (The Red Apple) / Feridun Oral (YKY, Turkey)Ако искаш вярвай (You may not believe but it is true) / Pancho Panchev (Izdatelstvo Janet 45, Bulgaria)Povestea-Lui Harap-Alb / Ion Creanga (Vellant, Romania)Davidam van Davidam (I ran and ran) / (Cheesta Pub, Iran)La maison de Lalla Chama = شامة لال دار (The House of Lalla Chama) / Ahmed Taieb el Alj (Marsam, Morocco)

This final selection was made together with the steering committee of the Flemish branch of IBBY Belgium and a group ofprimary schoolteachers who work in a multicultural context.

Foreign publishers offered the books at reduced prize –Stichting Lezen has so far bought 15 copies of each book – and did notcharge translation rights. On September 17th the project had its kick off in five pilot schools in Ghent, Brussels, Mechelen,Antwerp and Genk.

September 17th saw:

the 10 books in the original languagesa Dutch translation of each book,didactic and philosophical teacher guides for the presentation of the books in the classroom,audiorecordings in the original language of each booksupporting material, such as a CD with songs from diverse countries (Didier Jeunesse), the book Atlas (a Polish book, in Dutch atpublisher Lannoo), Mirror by Jane Barker (Walker Books),…a Kamishibai (a miniature Japanese storytelling theatre) for three of the ten booksa supporting website.

3. In AdditionThis is a pilot project. The aim is to fine tune the project in Autumn and Winter 2013 to then offer it more widely the following school year.The FSM prize money will not stretch to a full implementation of the project. The project is receiving wide interest from public libraries whoare keen to build up an international collection. It would be nice to accompany this project with research. Researchers of Louvain Universityare interested. But there is no funding for it at this stage.

From Turkey

IBBY Turkey is preparing for the 2018 Congress

Following the decision taken during the EC meeting in Bologna (March 2013) to hold the 36th IBBY Congress in Istanbul Turkey, IBBY Turkeyset up a committee to work on the preparations of the 2018 Congress. The first step to be taken is to find a suitable congress venue. Thus,negotiations with possible venues have already started. IBBY Turkey members are all excited and are brainstorming for ideas to make theCongress a success!

Turkish authors participate in activities abroad

Author - illustrator Can Göknil went to London for the opening of the Sheffield International Artists Exhibition where her books were amongthe books chosen from 35 different countries. The exhibition is on till November 30th. Also, author - illustrator Serpil Ural and author AyçaNur Kip Akyol went to the Netherlands to participate in the Children's Book Market Day of The Hague on October 13th.


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Can Göknil Serpil Ural Ayça Nur Kip Akyol

From the United Kingdom

UK nominated books included in The IBBY Outstanding Books for Children with Disabilities 2013 were Ten Little Ladybirds byMelanie Gerth, published by Gullane Children's Books; The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman, published by Frances Lincoln; andMe, the Queen and Christopher by Giles Andrae, published by Orchard Books.

UK nominated books for the 2014 IBBY Honour List are: for writing, Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat, Walker Books, 2011;for illustration: Sarah Garland, Azzi in Between, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2012; and, for translation, Howard Curtis, In The SeaThere Are Crocodiles, Random House/David Fickling Books, 2012 (author: Fabio Geda). All three books highlight the lives of asylum seekersand young people coming to terms with life in a new, sometimes alien and often hostile, culture, written from the perspective of the youngpeople themselves.

UK nominations for the 2014 Hans Andersen Awards are: for writing, Dame JacquelineWilson; and, for illustration, John Burningham.

IBBY UK has published 3 issues of its journal IBBYLink in 2013. IBBYLink 36 published papersfrom the 2012 IBBY/National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature Conference which wason the theme of Beyond the Book. IBBYLink 37 was on the theme of Irish Children’s Literature;and IBBYLink 38 was about picturebooks for older readers. Our long serving editor, Pat Pinsent,retired in the spring and our new editor is Ferelith Hordon, a retired children’s librarian.

Dame Jacqueline Wilson John Burningham

IBBY UK launches its new website in October. It has the same address as the old website, www.ibby.org.uk, but is redesigned andwill offer greater facilities to members than the old website.

IBBY UK has awarded three bursaries for IBBY members to attend the 2014 IBBY World Congress in Mexico. The bursary holders areSophie Hallam, Beth Cox and Osman Coban.

On September 11, IBBY UK and the online children’s books magazine, Books for Keeps, hostedan evening in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the publication of David Almond’s firstchildren’s book, Skellig, and the publication of a new edition of this ground breaking book. David, thewinner of the Hans Andersen Award in 2010, was in conversation with Erica Wagner, the Literary Editor ofThe Times. The evening was sponsored by Hachette Books, IBBY UK and Books for Keeps. Photosattached.

The 20th annual IBBY UK/NCRCL Conference will be held at the National Centre for Research inChildren’s Literature at Roehampton University on November 9. This year’s topic is Feast or Famine: Foodand Children’s Literature. Details on the Roehampton University website. Short versions of the papers willappear in IBBYLink 39.

Cambridge Scholars Press will publish the proceedings of last year’s IBBY UK/NCRCLconferenceBeyond the Book.

David Almond and his notebook

This year’s IBBY UK Christmas card is designed by illustrator Jackie Morris. This is thefirst time that an illustrator has designed a card specifically for IBBY. Jackie’s design features thelavender bear from her book The Cat and the Fiddle, with a cart full of books. Jackie has alsodonated a print of the design to be used to raise funds for IBBY’s work with Syrian refugees inLebanon. If you are interested in buying cards, please contact John Dunne, IBBY UK Secretary:[email protected]

IBBY UK is exploring the possibility of twinning with the Philippines Board on Books for YoungPeople.

© Jackie Morris

IBBY UK is sad to announce the death on September 29 2013 of Robert Leeson, one of the leading Britishchildren's writers and critics of the late twentieth century, a long standing supporter of IBBY and a former chair ofIBBY UK. Bob Leeson wrote many books for children of all ages. He sought to make British children's books moreresponsive to changes in society and more inclusive and accessible, featuring children from all ethnic groups andsocial classes, and offering central roles to girls as well as boys. These aims were reflected not only in the books


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that he wrote for children but in his works of criticism, including Reading and Righting (1985), a book that was amanifesto for making children's books more relevant and committed to social equality and diversity. He helpedset up The Other Award (1975-1987), a children's book award which embodied these values. In 1985 he wasawarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for an outstanding contribution to the world of children's books in Britain.

Robert Lesson

From Estonia

Ilona Martson with Täheke in paperand in iPad. © XX

The New iPad version of "Täheke" looks to the future

The new iPad version of the oldest and the largest Estonian children’s monthly Täheke(Little Star) is available from September 2013. The main difference between new andtraditional form of the magazine is that on iPad everybody can see animatedillustrations and listen to author’s original recordings of stories and poems written bythem."The new iPad version looks to the future – to find new readers among children wholike to play worldwide popular computer games. Why not to offer them some moreintelligent material?" says Ilona Martson, editor-in-chief of Täheke (published since1960). Actually, it’s also the oldest children’s monthly in the whole region – we can’tfind such an old magazine for children from 5 to 10 neither other Baltic, norScandinavian countries. Täheke has very rich history – most of Estonian children’sclassics were first published here. The tradition of first-publishing stories continues tillnowadays: most of stories published here you can find in the Estonian children’s bookssome years later."The idea of Täheke is to offer high-level illustrations, layout and totallynon-commercial profile," tells Martson. "In case of iPad version it’s possible to use ournon-traditional so-called “landscape" format. Täheke leads children to the best neworiginal Estonian literature. Now it’s possible to upload it worldwide in App Stores.”

The QR codeof the magazine

Tallinn illustrations triennial "Power of pictures" in November 2013

Every three years in November, beautiful illustrations come together in Tallinn, Estonia. This year, the forth triennial will take place. Theillustrations are from here, the shores of the Baltic sea, which some of the participants call the Western sea and some the Eastern sea.Artists from ten countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark – will send their workto the triennial at Estonian National Library. In addition, there is an exhibition at Estonian Children's Center featuring the previous winner's,Russian artist Varvara Alay's, as well as the German artist Judith Clay's, a triennial debutant's, work. For the first time, Tallinn City Theatrehas partnered with us. Vera Pavlova from St. Petersburg, the first triennial winner, has her watercolors displayed in the Tallinn CityTheatre fireplace room. The exhibitions will be opened on November 5th, and all the works will be on display until November 30th. Moreinformation here.

© Vera Pavlova

Snow-White and Rose-Red © Judith Clay

© Varvara Alay

From France


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IBBY France nominated Jean-Claude Mourlevat (writing) and FrançoisPlace (illustration) for the Hans Christian Andersen award 2014.

The books nominated by IBBY France for the IBBY Honour list 2014are:

In the writing category: No pasarán, endgame, ChristianLehmann, L'Ecole des loisirs, Paris, 2012In the illustration category: Brindille, Rémi Courgeon, Milan,Toulouse, 2012In the translation category: L'ours qui aimait le sucre d'érable,Lynd Ward, trad. Catherine Bonhomme, Le Genévrier, Paris,2012.

Jean-Claude Mourlevat François Place

From Germany

German Children's Literature Award 2013

On October 11th, 2013 parliamentary state secretary Dr. Hermann Kues, Federal Ministry of Family,Senior Citizens, Women and Youth announced the prizewinners of the German Children's LiteratureAward 2013. The Award is the only state-sponsored prize for fiction in Germany and is awarded since1956.

The 2013 "Sonderpreis" (Special Award for Lifetime Achievement) was given to the author AndreasSteinhöfel in regard of his books beyond common clichés in children's and youth literature. The jurystates he managed to keep a child's view of the world and portrays young people at the edges of societywithout ostracizing them or pointing the finger. The prize is a statute of Momo and 10,000 Euro.

The jury of adult critics awarded the following books: in the category picture book Wo ist mein Hut(NordSüd; I want my hat back) by Jon Klassen, translated by Thomas Bodmer; in the categorychildren's books Der unvergessene Mantel (Carlsen; The unforgotten coat) by Frank Cottrell Boyce,Clare Heney (photos), Carl Hunter (photos), translated by Salah Naoura; in the category young adultbooks Abzählen (Unionsverlag; Counting off) by Tamta Melaschwili, translated by Natia Mikeladse-Bachsoliani; in the category non-fiction for children and youth Der Boxer (Carlsen; The boxer) byReinhard Kleist. The young adult jury honoured Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter (Hanser; TheFault in Our Stars) by John Green, translated by Sophie Zeitz. The jury of young readers consists of sixreading clubs from all over Germany. The concept is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. All fivecategories include a prize money of 8,000 euros and a statuette of "Momo".

For more information visit this website.Special Award winner Andreas Steinhöfel

© José Poblete

Group photo with all award winners and some members of the jurys © José Poblete

From Poland

In the spring IBBY Poland launched a new website, more user friendly and still updated. Logotypes of all the partners can be seen there,as well as information about activities and interviews.

The Centre for Children’s Literature in Oświecim has been still developing, the chair person, Anna Krawczyk, will present itsachievements on a special lecture at the Krakow Book Fair. In October IBBY Poland will be again a partner of this event. It is not the only

lecture during the fair, next one is about library’s activity for young adults.

Wrocław, the capital of Lower Silesia, is also one of the children's books capital. A popular writer, Agnieszka Gil, new member of IBBY, hasbeen running a literary events named “GILgotki”, always connected with certain types of books, i.e. "GILgotki with pirates" or "GILgotki on

the Wild West". The participants, both children and parents, are dressed up and enjoy puzzles, quizzes and games.


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For the competition “DONG award” only 40 books were sent and the jury announced their statement on May the 14th. Children’s jury gavethe first prize to Guus Kuijer (ALMA prizewinner) for Book of everything, and the adults honored Jo Nesbø for last part of Doctor Proctor.

Publishers and artists awarded with Dong 2012 with a member of the children's jury. ©Wieslaw Zaslawski

"GILgotki on the Wild West". © Alicja Ozdoba

The colleagues from the associations "Poza Rozkladem" and "Kamienica 56" have been still developing their activities; most interesting is“Book laboratory” and “Butterflies”. IBBY Poland prepared similar activities at the Warsaw Book Fair, where it had a stand and where it

presented the awarded books and provided more information. IBBY leaflet was attached to the Fair Catalogue.For the first time the fair was organized in a new place – modern Euro Championship stadium. This object was designed not only for sportevents, but also for meeting, concerts etc. The stand was in a very friendly area, together with other “children’s partner”, so they could

meet and share opinions and experiences.

IBBY Poland is also ready with application for IBBY Honor List and ASAHI Award. The All in tune story (text Anna Czerwinska – Rydel,illustration Marta Ignerska) was awarded in “Book of the Year” competition and Bologna Ragazzi.

The IBBY Poland candidature for ASAHI is foundation “Jasne strony” / Bright pages” for organizing “All-Poland tactile books library”.

Very interesting and involving for IBBY Poland is a project prepared by countries of Visegrad Four Group: each IBBY Section recommendedthree short stories, which will be illustrated by an artist from other Visegrad Group countries.

Polish presentation for Nami Island was also successful, the exhibition was accompanied by ambassador and his wife.

The solution of Biennale Illustration in Bratislava was not successful, but IBBY Poland prepared a lecture led by Anita Wincenjusz-Patyna and,Polish Institute, under the new management, presented an exhibition of Elzbieta Wasiuczyñska, Polish illustrator.

© Elzbieta Wasiuczyñska

From Sweden

The Peter Pan-award winner Nanoy Rafael was invited to the Gothenburg Book Fair (26-29 September)to present his book Naku, naku, nakuuu! illustrated by Sergio Bumatay III. The book was chosen by IBBYSweden as the best children's book in translation of 2012. Nanoy Rafael had a busy schedule at the book fair,talking not only about his own writing, but also about current children's literature from the Philippines. Ofcourse he also received his award from IBBY Sweden's chair Birgitta Alm. IBBY Sweden is proud to promoteliterature in translation and Nanoy Rafael coming from the Philippines to meet readers at the book fair was agreat example of IBBY's motto Books build bridges!

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award recently released the list of nominatedcandidates. For the 2014 award 238 candidates from 68 countries are nominated. The fulllist can be viewed at www.alma.se

The Swedish Arts Council regularly publishes a magazine written by an independent criticwho selects the most interesting Swedish children's books. This year's selection wasmade by Åsa Warnquist and gives a great overview of the most talked about titles in


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Sweden at the moment. It can be ordered (or downloaded) for free through this link.

From Italy

After the earthquake: the relief project in North Italy is going on

After the sever earthquake that hit the North of Italy in May 2012, the Italiansection of IBBY immediately started working to bring relief through books andstorytelling to children, in collaboration with local schools, libraries and operators.Thanks to the invaluable support granted by the Children in Crisis Fund, IBBY Italiacould start a specific programme of different initiatives aimed at providing childrenwith opportunities to overcome this dreadful experience.The program has included high quality activities where books, aloud reading,dramatizations, the language of movies and the active involvement of children werethe key elements.

The following activities has been organized so far:

Libri e giochi per ricominciare (Books and toys to start again) a nationalcampaign to collect the best books to help public and school librariesre-create their funds and to guarantee to children access to books andreading services: more than 1,000 books have been collected and donatedto 7 schools and public libraries.Nitrato d'Argento, a programme of activities to offer to children the magicof movies and stories linked together in the invaluable experience offered byCine-Mino, a mini-mobile cinema that reached 320 children in the courtyardof 7 schools.Leggimi forte! (Read me aloud!), a programme of storytelling and readingaloud sessions, to bring to value the books collected and donated: 120children enthusiastically attended the reading sessions organized so far andcarried out by voluntary readers of Nati per Leggere (Born to Read)programme, librarians and IBBY Italia's secretariat. The readers performedpicture books, stories and nursery rhymes by authors as Astrid Lindgren,Roald Dahl, Bianca Pitzorno, Dr Seuss, Julia Donaldson, Pierre Bertrand,Helen Oxembury, Gek Tessaro, which were highly appreciated by childrenand teachers too.Classroom dramatizations and activities on environmental andscientific issues. The earthquake was a dreadful experience for manychildren and might have changed forever their perception of nature and theenvironment: thus we tried to give children the opportunity to explorenature's forces and mysteries in a positive and funny way. Two workshopswere organized in the Primary School of Massa Finalese, in collaboration withTecnoscienza, a no-profit NGO based in Bologna specialized in environmentaltraining: 40 children actively attended, turning into young scientistsengaged in original, intriguing and funny experiments based on two children'sscience books.

Earthquake relief Project. Environmental Workshop.© Federica Azzanutto

Earthquake Relief Programme. ReadingVolunteers© Alessandra Zapparoli

From Spain

Atrapallibres awards for children's literature

The ClijCAT holds the Award for Children's Literature "Atrapallibres" (Catch-a-book) with the aim ofstimulating imaginative reading in children.

With this goal, a team of experts in children's literature select three categories of books in Catalan andpresent them to all primary schools and libraries in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the region of Valencia.

The selection is taken from books published between July of the previous year and June of the year in whichthe awards are held.

The objective of the Award for Children's Literature "Atrapallibres" is for as many children as possible to readthe selected books. They then form a jury in each school or library where they present and defend the booksin front of their peers and the book which seems the best to them is chosen. The idea is for the children´svoices to be heard, giving them an opportunity to act as juror with consequences beyond the school and thelibrary.


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Award for Literature "Protagonista Jove"

The ClijCAT, in collaboration with the ACALI, holds the Award for Literature "Protagonista Jove" (YoungProtagonist) with the aim of stimulating imaginative reading in children.

With this goal, a team of experts in children's literature select eight books in Catalan, four for each age group,and present them to all secondary education centres and libraries in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and theregion of Valencia.

The selection is taken from books published between July of the previous year and June of the year in whichthe awards are held.

The objective of the Award for Literature ‘Protagonista Jove’ is for as many young adults as possible to readthe selected books. They then form a jury in each school or library where they present and defend the booksin front of their peers and the book which seems the best to them is chosen. The idea is for the young adults´voices to be heard, giving them an opportunity to act as juror with consequences beyond the school and thelibrary.

From Ukraine

An emphasis on children's literature

In 2013, a well-deserved emphasis has been placed on children’s literature written by many contemporary Ukrainian authors as well astranslations of children’s literature. The IV Lviv Children’s Book Forum and the XX Lviv International Book Fair & Literature Festival as well

as the III International Arsenal Book Festival (held in April, May, and September) focused special attention on the art of children’s books andtheir creators. Together with the organizers, the children’s book publishers arranged a number of meetings with contemporary Ukrainian

authors and illustrators as well as authors and illustrators whose books were translated in Ukrainian and were recently published in Ukraine.Therefore, young Ukrainian readers had a good opportunity to communicate with Polish writers Barbara Kosmovska and Joanna Jagiello,

English writers Jeremy Strong and Ian Whybrow, a Lithuanian writer and illustrator Sigute Ach, and a lot of other book creators fromBelarus, Sweden, Poland, and Great Britain. The visiting authors and illustrators participated in many public readings, master-classes,

performances, and meetings.The IV Lviv Children’s Book Forum also held an interactive seminar Book Platform for librarians to promote an interest in reading. Inaddition, a big display of the children’s books that were included to the White Raven Catalogue became a special feature of the III

International Arsenal Book Festival.

Jeremy Strong.

A New Braille Book for Children

Grandpa Guram's Fairy Tales by a Georgian author Guram Petriashvili, illustrated byDaria Rakova, which was awarded The Ukrainian Best Book Award (UBBA), has beenpublished in Braille. The book was presented to readers at the IX Kyiv International BookFair in May, 2013. 200 copies of the book were sent to special boarding schools andrehabilitation centers in Ivano-Frankivs’k, Lubny, Donetsk, and many other cities inUkraine. Oleksandr Kinberg, a director of the Republican House of Audio and Print UTOS,comments: “… The Braille books have not been published in Ukraine for almost tenyears… The condition of those books that are left as ‘a heritage’ often requires aquality…” (see The Old Lion Publishing House Facebook webpage).

iPad Books

The Ababahalamaha Publishing House and Timecode Company have started publishing iPad books for youngreaders. The first interactive book, The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Vladyslav Yerko,was created in December, 2012. The iPad book includes seven games, a number of interactive elements, puzzles,and coloring pages. The book is available in three languages, Ukrainian, Russian, and English. In addition, the iPadbook was created with the intention of evoking the holiday spirit so that the readers/viewers might not only createa wintry holiday setting for themselves but also listen to the seasonal organ music. For information about thisbook, see: http://tinyurl.com/kw68bsf


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Translated Books

Two Ukrainian folktales The Mitten and The Turnip designed by Art Studio Agrafka (Andriy Lesiv and Romana Romanyshyn) that wereincluded to the White Raven Catalogue (2012, 2013) were translated into English by Oksana Lushchevska (The University of Georgia) andMichael M. Naydan (The Pennsylvania State University). The English translations were officially presented by The Navchal’na Knyha –Bohdan Publishing House at the Lviv International Book Fair & Literature Festival in September.The Teza Publishing House presented two novels for middle grade readers, The Master of Makutsa or the Adventures of the Adder Onysko bySashko Dermansky and Twenty Three Images of Petryk Pjatochkin by Natalia Guzejeva, in Germany. The books will be translated from theUkrainian language into the German language shortly.

From a Book to a Film

The children’s film Strong Ivan came out October 3, 2013; the trailer for the film was presented at the CannesFilm Festival, 2013. The film is based on Oleksandr Havrosh’s novel for children The Incredible Adventures ofStrong Ivan published by The Old Lion Publishing House. This is a story about the Ukrainian circus athlete IvanFirtsak who was acknowledged as the strongest man in the world in 1928 by the U. S. mass media. Theproducers of the film are Victor Andrienko and Ihor Pysmenny. Dmytro Haladzhi, an athlete in the U.S. circus,is a featured actor in the film. To watch the film trailer visit: http://ivan-film-ua.com/en/video

Recent publications

Bookbird. Issue 51.3, 2013

A themed issue about multilingual children’s books, guest edited by Dr Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer of theUniversity of Tübingen, Germany. In her introduction, Dr Kümmerling-Meibauer remarks on the importanceof creating an ‘awareness that our global societies are more and more determined by heterogeneity,multilingualism, and multiculturalism. As a consequence, an increasing number of students speak differentlanguages and are affected by diverse cultural traditions’. Reflecting such diversity is very much at theforefront of the aims of Bookbird. This issue highlights the variety of languages used within storytelling,written and oral, for children. Articles discuss the ways in which language reinforces identity, the operation ofthe ‘bilingual’ brain in literacy development, and multilingual and bilingual books from many differentcultures and countries. Reflecting the theme of the issue, children’s books reviewed come from Venezuela,Iran, USA, China, Norway, Germany and Iceland. The acceptance speeches of the two winners of the 2012Hans Christian Andersen Award (Maria Teresa Andruetto and Peter Sís) also in this issue, amply demonstratethe importance of reaching out to children’s literature in many languages, and, as Peter Sís says in hisspeech, ‘thank you IBBY, for building the bridges [to do this] all over the planet’.

Bookbird. Issue 51.4, 2013

The variety to be found in children’s books is strongly represented in this issue. Articles range from aconsideration of ‘death’ in picturebooks by four recent Hans Christian Award recipients, to a discussionfocused on a graphic novel adaptation of a 17th-century Dutch explorer’s journal. In between, many issues todo with ethnicity, class and identity are raised in articles dealing with representation of immigrants inPortugese children’s literature, Communist Albanian children’s literature and media, the Black community inNova Scotia and the role of teachers in mediating the messages concerning values and morals in SouthAfrican reading books. All of these articles, while focused on specific societies, have international application,as do the practical articles describing specific reading projects in Brazil, the Caribbean and Flanders. Added tothis, news from The International Youth Library in Munich features author Joke van Leeuwen, winner of theJams Krüss Award, and the very important work of the IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled forYoung People, now moving from Norway to Toronto, is described. There is a substantial review sectionconcerning books about children’s books, and shorter reviews of children’s books from different parts of theworld. And, for the record, there is a list of the nominees for the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Bookbird can be read on-line through Project Muse.To subscribe, please fill out this form. More information on: IBBY's website.

Enfants en temps de guerre et littératures de jeunesse (XXe-XXIe siècles) [Children in the timeof war and youth literature (20th-21st centuries)]

Proceedings of a seminar on "Children in the time of war and youth literature (20th-21st centuries)",addressing the role and the place of children facing war in children's literature. The seminar was held on18-19 November 2012, and organized by the French National Centre for Children's literature - IBBY France(French National Library) together with the Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand - Research Centreon Literatures et Socio-poetry, and in collaboration with the French Association for Research on books andcultural objects of childhood (AFRELOCE).

The table of contents can be found here.

Enfants en temps de guerre et littératures de jeunesse (XXe-XXIe siècles) [Children in the time of war and youth literature (20th-21st


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centuries)], BNF/PUBP, 2013. PUBP: ISBN 978-2-35494-051-5, BNF: ISBN 978-2-84516-631-8, 23 €. Can be bought online atwww.lcdpu.fr

Escales en littérature de jeunesse [Stopovers in Children's literature]

The French National Centre for Children's literature - IBBY France (French National Library) has put togethera selection of 4200 titles for children and young adults, from 6 months to 14 years old. This selection, madeof books available on the market, is classified by categories (picture books, novels, comic books, theatre,etc.) and proposes also books in Braille. The books having a digital version are marked by a pictogramme.An publication that will help people navigate between the immense production of books for children andyoung adults in French, including books published in Africa, the Arab World, the Carribeans and the IndianOcean. A must have for everyone interested in books for children and young adults in French.

Escales en littérature de jeunesse [Stopovers in Children's literature]. CNLJ - IBBY France, Editions du Cercle de la librairie, 2013. ISBN978-2-7654-1405-6. 49 €.

Upcoming events

November 2013, March 2014

November

27 November - 2 December 2013

Montreuil Children's Book Fair, France

Theme: Heroes. Guest of honour: South Africa.

For more information: www.salon-livre-presse-jeunesse.net

March

21 - 24 March 2014

Paris Book Fair, Porte de Versailles, France

Guests of honour: Argentina and the city of Shanghai

For more information: http://www.salondulivreparis.com

24 - 27 March 2013

Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy

Guest of honour: Brazil.

For more information: http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it

Contributors

Federica Azzanutto (IBBY Italy)Clive Barnes (IBBY UK)Valerie Coghlan (Bookbird)Majo de Saedeleer (IBBY Belgium)Linda Dütsch (IBBY Germany)María Jesús Gil (IBBY Spain, Castillan Branch)Maria Kulik (IBBY Poland)Oksana Lushchevska (University of Georgia, for IBBY Ukraine)Marga Mateu (IBBY Spain, Catalan Branch)Mare Müürsepp (IBBY Estonia)Erik Titusson (IBBY Sweden)Serpil Ural (IBBY Turkey)

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