IBBY Honour List

The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published books, honouring writers, illustrators and translators from IBBY member countries. The IBBY Honour List is one of the most widespread and effective ways of furthering IBBY's objective of encouraging international understanding through children's literature.

The titles are selected by the National Sections which can nominate one book for each of the three categories. For a country with a substantial and continuing production of children's books in more than one language, one book may be submitted for writing and translation in each official language.

Important considerations in selecting the Honour List titles are that the books are representative of the best in children's literature from the country and that the books are suitable for publication throughout the world. The selection provides insight into the diverse cultural, political and social settings in which children live and grow and it can be used by all those involved with developing educational and literacy programmes and publishing initiatives to develop exemplary “international” collections.

The Honour List diplomas are presented at the IBBY Congresses where the catalogue is introduced and the books are shown for the first time. Thereafter seven parallel sets of the books circulate around the world at exhibitions during conferences and book fairs. Permanent collections of the IBBY Honour List books are kept in Munich, Zurich, Bratislava, St. Petersberg, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Tucson and, until 2014, in Evanston.

Past Honour Lists can be found in the Archives. Publications can be ordered here.
 

IBBY Honour List 2022

 

The 2022 Honour List includes 163 nominations in 47 different languages from 53 countries. Selected for the 2022 list are 63 entries in the category of Writing, 52 in the category Illustration, and 48 in the category Translation. 

➜ Discover the selected titles
➜ 2022 Honour List catalogue
Virtual exhibition of the Honour List books by the Malaysian IBBY Section MBBY

 

IBBY Honour List - Exhibitions and Collections