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On May 4, IBBY will announce the winners of the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award & the first winners of the IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award in a digital press conference. Stay tuned!

Also on May 4, IBBY will launch its official statement of support for the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Non-Discrimination

The IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition for an author & an illustrator of children's books. 34 authors & 36 illustrators were nominated in 2020 & the shortlist is featured here youtube.com/watch?v=8gbY-C… Winners announced on May 4

Patricia Aldana is the 2021 Carle Mentor Honoree. As the founder of Groundwood Books, past president of IBBY , president of the IBBY Trust & publisher of Greystone Kids imprint Aldana Libros carlemuseum.org/content/2021-c…

Congratulations, Jacqueline Woodson, the 6th US author to receive the #IBBYHCA2020 author award since 1956. BOOKBIRD looks forward to your acceptance speech in Moscow next year!

Congratulations, Albertine, for winning the #IBBYHCA2020 illustrator award. BOOKBIRD looks forward to your acceptance speech in Moscow next year!

Congratulations, Casa Cuna Cuenteros, Argentina, for all your great literacy work in hospitals. BOOKBIRD looks forward to seeing you receive your award at the IBBY Congress next year in Moscow.

Marit Törnqvist (Netherlands), a writer and illustrator who has developed reading programmes for children has won a 2020 IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award. BOOKBIRD looks forward to seeing you receive your award at the IBBY Congress next year.

Zhu Yongxin, China, a scholar who has devoted his life to research and activities for reading promotion has been awarded a 2020 IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award. BOOKBIRD looks forward to seeing you receive your award next year at the IBBY Congress in Moscow

UNESCO & Idries Shah Foundation “World Tales” Short Story Competition open to ages 12-18. 250-500 words in English or French: “Once upon a time in my future…” Winners are published & invited to Paris. Deadline: 31 May. Submit to [email protected] en.unesco.org/news/unesco-an…

Check out these gorgeous limited edition silk scarves featuring art by 10 HCA artists in support of IBBY projects-- like the inspiring work in Beirut right now building back 120 school libraries destroyed in the recent explosion. #Scarvesforacause: fundraising.ibby.org

There's a new IBBY jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for a lifelong contribution to literature for young people: @readeromnivorou leads members from Lebanon, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Slovenia, France, South Korea, Australia, Finland & Argentina

Congrats editors Petros Panaou & Janelle Mathis on v. 58 n.4 BOOKBIRD with articles on the works of Uri Orlev, Elsa Beskow, Ali Chamseddine, María José Ferrada, Astrid Lindgren, Licā Sainciuc + THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE, same-sex couples in picture books, Jane Goodall in lit IBBY

Grateful if you would help spread the word about #WorldKidLitMonth - coming up in September! American Literary Translators Association scbwi IBBY iBbYIreland IBBY UK IBBY Sverige IBBY Canada The Horn Book Kirkus Reviews Bookbird: The Journal of IBBY IBBY México ALIJA IBBY Argentina Greek IBBY - KYKLOS Romanian Cultural Institute USA LTI Korea The Society of Authors

BOOKBIRD is looking for a new editor (or team of editors)! Interested? Applications due Oct. 1, 2021 MORE INFO HERE: ibby.org/fileadmin/user…

Valerie Coghlan and Evelyn Feeman gave a wonderful presentation on IBBY 's journal BOOKBIRD and the new, photo-illustrated history of the journal, A FLIGHT THROUGH TIME as the IBBY Congress in Moscow comes to a close. #IBBY #WorldCongress

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