Exhibitions

IBBY provides collections of books, usually with an annotated catalogue, as travelling exhibitions. The collection can be borrowed for a fixed fee of CHF 100 per location, including five copies of the appropriate catalogue. The prices for bulk copies of the catalogues is available on request. The shipping of the books to and from the IBBY Secretariat has to be paid for by the exhibitor.

Exhibitions available at present:

Honour List

The exhibition comprises the complete collection of the most recent selection: approximately 180 titles. Every two years a new selection of outstanding titles is made by the National Sections and is first shown during the IBBY Congress. Subsequently the collection is shown at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

The 2016 IBBY Honour List collection was exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Books Fair in March 2017. IBBY UK organized a tour of the books nominated for illustration, visiting the Oxford Story Museum, Seven Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne, the HIVE at Worcester University, Roehampton University and Brighton University. The collection was also shown at the ABRAXAS Festival in Zug, Switzerland in November 2017. JBBY hosted a travelling exhibition that toured throughout Japan during 2017 and 2018.

IBBY Australia, with the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature (NCACL), launched the exhibition of the 2018 IBBY Honour List collection at the Woden branch of Libraries ACT in Canberra, in October 2018. A collection of all the Australian Honour Books was also displayed, and an IBBY Australia Honour Books Annotated List 1962–2018 was created to accompany them. Both exhibitions will be displayed again in Canberra at the CBCA Conference from 31 May – 2 June 2019, and there are plans for the tour to continue.

IBBY Korea, has just finished a very successful exhibition of the 2018 IBBY Honour List in Seoul. CLICK HERE to see images from the exhibition.

For more information see IBBY Honour List

Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities

This regular selection of titles that are suitable for young people with disabilities is a collection of approximately 50 titles per selection. Each selection is first shown at the IBBY stand at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and then is available as a travelling exhibition.

The 2017 selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities was first shown during the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2017. The books were subsequently shown in Italy, Japan, UK, USA, China, Ireland, Slovakia and at the IBBY Congress in Athens, Greece.

For more information see Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities

Silent Books

In response to the waves of immigrants landing on the island of Lampedusa, IBBY Italy created a collection of silent books (wordless picture books) that could be understood and enjoyed by children regardless of language. These books were collected from IBBY National Sections, initially, over one hundred books from over twenty countries in 2013 and then smaller collections in 2015 and 2017.

The 2013 Selection comprises 110 books from 23 countries and has been exhibited in various venues in Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland and various venues in the UK and Italy.

The 2015 Selection of Silent Books comprises 51 books from 18 countries. The Selection has been exhibited in various venues in Italy, New Zealand (at the IBBY Congress 2016), UAE, Finland and Ukraine.

The 2017 Selection comprises 79 titles from 20 countries. The Selection was displayed in Bologna and other venues in Italy and will be exhibited at the IBBY Congress in Athens and then in UAE, Serbia, USA and Switzerland.

For more information see Silent Books

Please contact the IBBY Secretariat for more details and the availability of the exhibitions.