IBBY-iRead Award

IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

The IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award has been established by the Shenzhen iRead Foundation and IBBY to encourage a real commitment to the cause of reading promotion in the hope of spreading this dedication to others around the globe.

The Award aims to encourage further investment by individuals, organizations and governments in the promotion of children’s reading and will stimulate educational innovation, give much greater access to children’s books and an enhanced profile for children’s reading promotion – key tools in global, social, economic and cultural development – all in the context of Article 17(C) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.


IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

The IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award is given biennially to one group or institution whose outstanding activities are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion programmes for children and young people. The Award was established in 1986  and is sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Visit the Asahi website here to find the list of the winners in Japanese.

Nominations are submitted by the National Sections of IBBY and may include reading promotion projects from any part of the world. The jury consists of members of the IBBY Executive Committee. The prize of US$ 10,000 and a diploma is presented to the winning project at the biennial IBBY Congress.

The winner of the 2020 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award is Casa Cuna Cuenteros of Buenos Aires, Argentina.


Hans Christian Andersen Award

Hans Christian Andersen Award

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. Given every other year by IBBY, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards recognize lifelong achievement and are presented to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children’s literature.

The selection criteria include the aesthetic and literary qualities of writing and illustrating as well as the ability to see things from the child’s point of view and the ability to stretch the child’s curiosity and imagination. The complete works of the author and of the illustrator will be taken into consideration.

Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2020:

On 4th May, IBBY International announced the winners of the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award: Jacqueline Woodson of the USA as Author and Albertine of Switzerland as Illustrator. As author, Jacqueline Woodson has a prolific body of writing from picture books to young adult literature, all of which feature lyrical language, powerful characters, and an abiding sense of hope. As illustrator, Albertine creates books with multiple levels of interpretation, with drawings made with infinite precision that are lively and full of humour.


Honour List

IBBY Ireland Honour List

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 IBBY Ireland Honour List is a biennial selection of books published in Ireland chosen by a panel of experts. Nominees to the IBBY Honour List are selected from the shortlist.

IBBY Ireland Nominees to IBBY Honour List 2020

Author (English)     John Chambers
Author (Gaelige)    Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn
Illustrator                Shona Shirley Macdonald

 

IBBY Ireland Honour List 2019

Writing (Gaelige)

Sadbh Devlin An Beag Bideach 
Siobhan Grogan Cillian ag comhaireamh 
Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn Scéalta le hInsint don Gealach 

Writing (English)

John Chambers Mucking About 
Meg Grehan The Space Between 
Emma Quigley Bank 

Illustration

Tatyana Feeny Socks for Mr. Wolf
Olivia Golden Cillian ag Comhaireamh
Shona Shirley Macdonald The Pooka Party


Video archive

IBBY Ireland Video Archive


Bookbird

Bookbird

Bookbird: A Journal for International Children’s Literature

Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature (ISSN 0006 7377) is a refereed journal published quarterly by IBBY. Bookbird aims to communicate new ideas to the community of readers interested in children’s books and is open to any topic in the field of international children’s literature. Bookbird also includes themed issues for which the editor will post calls for manuscripts on the IBBY website. Bookbird also includes news of IBBY projects and events which are highlighted in the Focus IBBY column. Other regular features include coverage of children’s literature studies and children’s literature awards around the world as well as reading promotion projects worldwide.


IBBY Ireland Annual Lectures

IBBY Ireland Annual Lectures

ANNUAL LECTURE 2019

Deborah Soria providing the keynote lecture at the Ibby Ireland annual lecture at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin.