2020

The IBBY Honour List 2020 catalogue can be ordered from the IBBY Secretariat. 

The 2020 catalogue can also be downloaded as a pdf (2.9MB) here.

Watch the Congress 2020 Honour List presentation film.

Honour List 2020 Extracts
Stories and poems from all over the world selected from the IBBY Honour List 2020 on the themes of fantasy, magic, love, diversity, poetry, animals, friendship, family, nature and environment, and refugees and migration.
 

  COUNTRY AUTHOR TITLE OF BOOK
1 Albania Viktor Canosinaj Djali qe shikonte detin
2 Armenia Suren Muradyan Mek mankik em, mek papik em
3 Australia Clare Atkins Between Us
4 Austria Michael Roher Tintenblaue Kreise
5 Belgium (Flemish) Jef Aerts De baluwe vleugels
6 Belgium (French) Marie Colot Jusqu'ici tout va bien
7 Brazil Marina Colasanti Quando a primavera chegar
8 Cambodia Soeurm Kadada and Heng Sreyoun Kar Proyuth York Teukdorm Phka
9 Canada (English) Cherie Dimaline The Marrow Thieves
10 Chile Sofia Montenegro and Claudia Silva Migraciones. Un mundo en movimiento.
11 China Gerelchimeg E Wen Ke de Tuo Lu
12 Colombia Triunfo Arciniegas El perfume del viento
13 Costa Rica Byron Espinoza Estos pequeños milagros
14 Croatia Jasminka Tihi-Stepanić Ljeto na jezeru Čiču
15 Cyprus Andri Antoniou To kalokeri pou meyalosa
16 Czech Republic Marek Toman Cukrárna U Šilhavého Jima
17 Ecuador Sandra de la Torre Guarderas Tomenta de arroz
18 Egypt Samah Abu Bakr Ezzat Al Da'irah Al Ha'erah
19 Estonia Mika Keränen Fantoomrattur
20 Finland (Finnish) Salla Simukka Sammuta valot! Sytytä valot!
21 Finland (Swedish) Minna Lindeberg Snön över Azharia
22 France Jean-Claude Mourlevat Jefferson
23 Germany Stefanie Höfler Der grosse schwarze Vogel
24 Ghana Ruby Yayra Goka Mama's Amazing Cover Cloth
25 Greece Vagelis Iliopoulos THOMAS Q.BIT Taxidiotis sto katoptro tou hronou
26 Hungary Dóra Gimesi A Macskaherceg kilencendik élete
27 Iceland Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir Vertu ósynilegur - Flóttasaga Ishmaels
28 India Anita Vachharajani Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with a Paintbrush
29 Indonesia Ahmad Fuadi Anak Rantau
30 Iran Abbass Jahangirian Sayeh-ye hayoola
31 Ireland (English) John Chambers Mucking About
32 Ireland (Irish) Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn Scéalta le hinsint don ghealach
33 Italy Beatrice Masini Storia di May, Piccola donna
34 Japan Arie Nashiya Kimi no sonzai o ishiki suru
35 Jordan Huda Al Shaer Min nafidhaty
36 Korea Joong-Mi Kim Kkot-seom Goyangi
37 Latvia Aivars Klavis Melnais akmens
38 Lebanon Antoine Maurice Al Chartouni Aela Jadida?!
39 Lithuania Jurga Vilė Sibiro haiku
40 Malaysia Mohana Gill Hayley's Fantastic Fruits
41 Mexico Jaime Alfonso Sandoval Los fantasmas de Fernando
42 Moldova Ion Anton Vesel îndrumar pentru vestiar
43 Netherlands (Dutch) Gideon Samson Zeb.
44 Netherlands (Frisian) Epie Dam Tsjilp! 25 fûgelgedichten foar grutte en lytse protters
45 New Zealand Eirlys Hunter The Mapmakers' Race
46 Norway Kathrine Nedrejord Slepp meg
47 Palestine Ahlam Bsharat Masna' al-Dhikrayat
48 Peru (Quechua) Guiomar du Bois and Leonidas Casas Julio Gálvez Huamanga rumi / Julio Gálvez y la piedra de Huamanga
49 Peru (Spanish) Isabel Menéndez Ibárcena El hambriento lobo feroz
50 Poland Magdalena Tulli Ten l tamten las
51 Russia (Russian) Nina Dashevskaya Teo- teatralnyy kaptan
52 Russia (Chuvash) Olga Vasilyeva Yuhaty salkus
53 Slovakia Tonal Revajova Rok Sivka ohniváka
54 Slovenia Nataša Konc Lorenzutti Zvezek in brezvezek
55 South Africa (English) Sindiwe Magona The Best Meal Ever
56 Spain (Basque) Patxi Zubizarreta Korri, Kuru, korri!
57 Spain (Catalan) Núria Parera Ciuró La Maleta
58 Spain (Galician) Pepe Cáccamo Tinta de luz
59 Spain (Spanish) Rafael Slamerón López No te muevas, Musaraña
60 Sweden Mats Strandberg Slutet
61 Switzerland (French) René Zahnd Anacoluthe! Aventures au cimetière des mots oubliés
62 Turkey Çigdem Sezer Kamyon Kafe
63 Uganda Eva Mutongole Wamala Kuku the Cock
64 Ukraine Sashko Dermanskyi Meri
65 United Arab Emirates Nadia Al Najjar Aswat Al Alam
66 United Kingdom Catherine Johnson Freedom
67 United States Jacqueline Woodson The Day You Begin
68 Venezuela Ana Palmero Cáceres Opuestos
       
  COUNTRY ILLUSTRATOR TITLE OF BOOK
69 Albania Ledia Kostandini Supa Magjike e Dragoit
70 Armenia Lilit Altunyan Kapuyt Aghvesy
71 Australia Lisa Kennedy Wilam:A Birrarung Story
72 Austria Linda Wolfsgruber Wir
73 Belgium Leo Timmers Aap op straat
74 Brazil André Neves Um dia, um rio
75 Cambodia Seng Visal Het Ah Vey Mous Srek Ngoang Ngoang?
76 Canada Rogé Bagages, mon histoire
77 Chile Raquel Echeñique Pikinini
78 China Wang Zumin Liu Shi Liu Tou Niu
79 Colombia Alefes Silva No necesito sombrero
80 Costa Rica Paúlo Sánchez Ulate El pintor de planetas
81 Croatia Tomislav Zlatić Moj tata se smanjuje
82 Cyprus Zoe Pinches Kyriacou Latrevo ta synnefa
83 Czech Republic Michaela Kukovičová Nebojme se bát
84 Denmark Anna Jacobina Jacobsen Ø
85 Ecuador Sozapato Debajo de hoy
86 Estonia Catherine Zarip Hundi sõbrad
87 Finland Matti Pikkujämsä Sorsa Aaltonen ja lentãmisen oireet
88 France Delphine Perret Une super histoire de cow-boy
89 Germany Iris Anemone Paul Polka für Igor
90 Ghana Nelda LaTeef Animal Village
91 Greece Philippos Photiadis Ena Kitrino Fillo
92 Hungary Rozi Békés A Vadhattyúk
93 Iceland Rán Flygenring Fuglar
94 India Mayukh Ghosh The Tale of Babban Hajjam
95 Iran Ghazaleh Bigdelou Chatri Ba Parvaneha-ye Sefid
96 Ireland Shona Shirley MacDonald The Pooka Party
97 Italy Irene Penazzi Nel mio giardino il mondo
98 Japan Shigeru Tamura Yoru no oto
99 Jordan Huda Al Shaer Min nafidhaty
100 Korea Suzy Lee Kang-yi
101 Latvia Anete Melece Kiosks
102 Lebanon Sawsan NourAllah Sadikiti waal manadil Almoulawanah
103 Lithuania Lina Dūdaite Sivuzas
104 Malaysia Mohd Kairul Azman Ismail Sayangku Apai
105 Mexico Estelí Meza El Principe Valiente tiene miedo
106 Moldova Lica Sainciuc Moara de frig
107 Netherlands (Dutch) Rick de Haas Kinderen met een ster
108 New Zealand Josh Morgan The Bomb
109 Norway Ragnar Aalbu Hakk o ve
110 Palestine Abdullah Qawariq Sha'ir al-Birwa
111 Peru Eunice Espinoza Las Mariposas de Amanda
112 Poland Emilia Dziubak Horror
113 Russia Olga Monina Legendy ctaroy Anglii
114 Slovakia Katarina Vavrová A čo je krása?
115 Slovenia Ana Zavadlav Čriček in temančni občutek
116 South Africa Paddy Bouma The Best Meal Ever
117 Spain Federico Delicado Un largo viaje
118 Sweden Per Gustavsson Om dagen tar slut
119 Switzerland Christine Aebi Ein bisschen wie du
120 Turkey Deniz Üçbasaran Sapkadaki Balik
121 Ukraine Olha Kuznetsova Pir'inka Ptaha-Mrii
122 United Arab Emirates Sarah Taibah Khattaf Raffay
123 United Kingdom Chris Naylor-Ballesteros The Suitcase
124 United States Yuyi Morales Dreamers
125 Venezuela Ramón Paris La caimana
       
  COUNTRY TRANSLATOR TITLE OF BOOK
126 Armenia Sona Baloyan Im anunn e Stilton, Geronimo Stilton
127 Austria Birgit Maria Pfaffinger Gefährliche Wahrheiten
128 Belgium (French) Anne Cohen Beucher Le trésor de Barracuda
129 Brazil João Guimarães Diaro de Blumka
130 Cambodia Mong Kimna Deumshheu Robos BarbaPapa
131 Canada (English) Susan Ouriou The Courage of Elfina
132 Chile Diego Rojas El Libro de las Comparaciones
133 China Zhao Wenwei Zui Bang de Ji Mi
134 Colombia María Mercedes Correa Nora
135 Costa Rica Daniel Muniz La Tortugas y el monstruro
136 Croatia Marko Kovačić Knjiga o prahu: Divlja ljepotica
137 Czech Republic Helena Stiessová Sally Jones a dopis od mrtvého
138 Egypt Salma Mohamed Saad Leemaza Lam 'Awoud 'Araak
139 Estonia Ülle Kiivet Metsikud naabrid
140 Finland (Finnish) Raija Rintamäki Nähdään kun nähdään
141 Finland (Swedish) Ulrika Enckell Hundarnas Historiebok - Finland, en del av Sverige
142 France Ramona Badescu Mog, la nuit des renards
143 Germany Andrea Kluitmann Fur immer Alaska
144 Ghana Eva María Asante Mulgheta. A Day in the Life of a Blind Footballer
145 Greece Anastasia Deligianni To kokalino spourgiti
146 Hungary Zsófia Molnár A Tükörjáró - 1. Könyv: A tél jegyesei
147 Iceland Bragi Valdimar Skúlason Inga einhyrningur
148 India Priyanka Nandy (Rimi) The Adventures of Kakababu
149 Indonesia Usy Izzan Faizti Penyihir pada Zaman Dahulu Kala
150 Iran Keyvan Abidi Ashtiani Hame-ye anha yek gorbeh didand
151 Italy Anna Patrucco Becchi Il nostro avvenire dorato
152 Japan Yumi Nishimura Aoi tsuki ishi
153 Korea Sujung Kim Inae Baek Insaeng Guerimchaek
154 Latvia Dace Meiere Mans vectevs bija kiršu koks
155 Lithuania Viltare Urbaitė Vandens skonis
156 Mexico Luis Esreban Pérez Villanuev Sentados
157 Moldova Ivan Pilchin Istorioarele unui dud batrân
158 Netherlands (Dutch) Sabine Mutsaers Nieuwe maan
159 Netherlands (Frisian) Anne Tjerk Popkema Teltsjes fan Tellegen. Alventritich bisteferhalen.
160 New Zealand Evelyn Tobin Tu Meke Tūī!
161 Norway Line Almhjell Hun ba om det
162 Palestine Isam Batran Ma'
163 Poland Katarzyna Skalska Tańcz, córko ksiezyca!
164 Russia (Russian) Olga Drobot Vratar l more
165 Slovakia L'ubor Matejko kto nám z neba sype sneh
166 Slovenia Ana Barič Moder Zavetje Vode
167 South Africa (Afrikaans) Philip de Vos Die Nagbeer
168 South Africa (Setswana) Lorato Trok Dijo tse di Monate go Gaisa!
169 South Africa (Xhosa) Xolisa Guzula Ilitye eliculayo
170 Spain (Basque) Julen Gabiria Coraline
171 Spain (Catalan) Albert Jané Malacatú!
172 Spain (Galician) David A. Álvarez Martínez Pippi Mediaslongas
173 Spain (Spanish) Julio Hermoso Refugiado
174 Sweden Amanda Svensson The Hate U Give
175 Turkey Damla Kellecioglu Hayalden Kaleler
176 Ukraine Natalia Ivanychuk Anton ta inshi neschastia
177 United Arab Emirates Amal Naser Tayf
178 United Kingdom Denise Muir The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree
179 United States Claudia Zoe Bedrick What if ...