The Child’s Right to Become a Reader
IBBY’s Books for Children Everywhere Campaign

Motivation

Eleanor Roosevelt described Jella Lepman’s efforts to support peace and international understanding by giving the children of the world access to the best literature as “Food for thought”.

The IBBY project programme will rely on its international network of more than 60 National Sections to help to produce and develop a book culture for children within regions that have special needs and lack support.

The Campaign includes the following project components:

Books for Africa – Books from Africa:

• Workshops for African writers and illustrators
• In-job training for African publishers
• Expanded Book Flood (book collections for school libraries)
• Teacher-training for working with books
• Worldwide Touring Exhibition “Books for Africa – Books from Africa” accompanied by an online catalogue
• IBBY Committees for Regional Collaboration

To develop networking in Asia and in the Pacific:

• Asian Regional Collaboration Committees
• Continuing development after the Tsunami

A campaign for reading in Central America and the Caribbean:

• Workshops for writers, illustrators and publishers
• Creating a translation pool to ensure that IBBY’s online and published materials are available to all Spanish-speaking countries

A campaign for reading in the Arab speaking countries:

• Workshops for writers, illustrators and publishers

To keep national children’s literatures alive:

• Supporting independent and regional based publishing in Southeast Europe and former Soviet countries.

IBBY Projects:

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2006

Mongolia: producing picture books

Rwanda: bringing literary books into the classroom

Books For Africa. Books from Africa, International

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2007

Cuba: Regional Workshop

India: Creating Libraries

Indonesia: Publishing Workshop

Madagascar, Antanarivo (supported by IBBY France): The Bobiko Project

Mongolia: Illustration Workshop

Palestine: Editing Workshop

South Africa (Supported by IBBY Canada): Books where there are no books

Uganda: Workshop on writing and illustrating skills for children’s storybooks

Uruguay: Teacher Training

Summary 2007

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2008

Bolivia: To be ourselves: handmade books

Germany: Professional exchange visit

Ghana: Workshop for children's publisher

Guatemala: Workshop for training teachers in reading promotion

Haiti: The Joyful Caravan of Books: workshops and festivals

India: creating children's libraries

Malaysia: Conference and workshop: publishing and marketing

Nepal: Setting up 2 mobile libraries.

South Africa (supported by IBBY Canada): Books where there are no books

Summary 2008

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2009

Cuba: Two workshops for children's literature

Guinea (supported by IBBY France): Training workshop for illustrators of children's books

AWIC / IndianBBY:  Workshop on book therapy

Indonesia: Picture book illustration workshop

Indonesia: relief work in Padang, Sumatra

Mongolia: Workshop to improve publishing methods

South Africa (supported by IBBY Canada): Unknown 2 Known: Children’s book-making project

Zimbabwe: Reading promotion workshop

Venezuela: IBBY Yamada Scholarship 

Summary 2009

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2010

France – Burkina Faso: Librarian training

Mexico – A Leer: Installing school libraries

Nepal: Books where there are no books – creation of reading materials

Palestine: workshops for Palestinian children in Lebanese refuge camps

 Peru: Training on reading promotion

Uganda: the importance of book therapy among children

Zambia: making books and reading promotion

Summary 2010

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2011

Bolivia: Thuruchapitas Library Project Book in Parks and Squares

France: Workshop for school and public librarians in Cote d'Ivoire

Indonesia: Go International through pictures books

Mexico: Language stimulation and books for babies

Mongolia: Reading promotion workshop for librarians

Nepal: Books for all in NW Nepal: storytelling and creating libraries

Pakistan: Promoting peace through children's books: promoting reading habits, tolerance in schools

Peru: Reading promotion in kindergartens

Uruguay: Reading promotion: reading spaces and donations of books

Venezuela: Essential strategies to write and illustrate stories for children

Africa: support to attend the first African Regional meeting. The Travelling of Stories: children's literature and reading in and of Africa.

Summary 2011

IBBY-Yamada Fund 2012

Ecuador:  A country that reads 2011 – 2012

Finland: An introductory workshop on writing and illustrating and using books in school and library in Kenya:  From oral stories to the illustrated book.

Ghana: Workshop for Children's Book Illustrators

Indonesia: Discussing the Facts, Seeing the Problems, and Improving the Quality – An advanced workshop on editing, publishing, writing and illustrating children’s books

Mexico: Workshop on development projects of picture books

Nepal: Developing reading habit in children through mobilizing reading volunteers in rural areas of Nepal

Peru: Continuation of the 2011 project. 

Summary 2012

Projects planned for 2013

IBBY France: To provide tactile illustrated books in Arabic. Workshop to produce 2 books, and to act as a prototype for a series of workshops.

IBBY India: Promoting book culture: establishing 2 libraries, training in reading promotion.

IBBY Malaysia: Literacy centres for young Burmese refugees.

IBBY Serbia: Summer reading programme, training for librarians.

IBBY Uganda: Reading Tents, training for teachers and volunteers in reading promotion.

IBBY Venezuela: Advanced workshop techniques for writers and illustrators in the process of producing a picture book.

IBBY International: Regional workshop support Asia and Oceania