NEW Honour List 2012

The new Honour List 2012 was presented at the IBBY Congress in London on the 25th of August 2012.

The catalogs can be ordered from the Secretariat beginning September 2012.

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, up to three books 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. It 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 at the International Youth Library in Munich, the Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media in Zurich, Bibiana Research Collection in Bratislava, at IBBY in Tokyo an Northwestern University Library at Evanston, Illinois.

The complete list of catalogues from 1956 to 2006 are online at the IBBY Archives at ALO. 

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The latest catalogues are available from the Secretariat.

Go to IBBY Honour List 2012

Go to IBBY Honour List 2010

Go to IBBY Honour List 2008

Go to IBBY Honour List 2006

Go to IBBY Honour List 2004

HL and HCA Exhibition in Japan at the ILCL

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