Today IBBY announced the names of the international authors and illustrators who have been short listed for their prestigious Hans Christian Andersen award for 2022.
Authors: Marie-Aude Murail from France, Maria Cristina Ramos from Argentina, Fatima Sharafeddine from Lebanon, Peter Svetina from Slovenia, Annika Thor from Sweden, and Margaret Wild from Australia
Illustrators: Beatrice Alemagna from Italy, Ryoji Arai from Japan, Iwona Chmielewska from Poland, Gusti from Argentina, Suzy Lee from the Republic of Korea, and Sydney Smith from Canada.
The members of the Jury assess the complete body of the candidates’ work. All the candidates nominated for the Award have made outstanding contributions to children’s literature in their countries and are selected by the IBBY National Sections. You may have read some of my previous posts where I explored some of the nominated illustrators.
The two winners will be announced at the IBBY Press Conference on Monday, 21 March 2022 at the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair. The medals and diplomas will be presented to the winners during the 38th IBBY Congress in Putrajaya, Malaysia during theIBBY World Congress, 5-8 September 2022.
The books submitted to the HCAA jury written by Margaret Wild were:
If you have a Story Box library subscription or can use the subscription from your school there are nine books by Margaret Wild for you to enjoy.
In 2013 Margaret spoke to Kids' Book Review.
The amazing thing you will notice about books by Margaret Wild is her range of audiences from very young children (babies and preschool) right up to books that are perfect to share with a senior Primary or High School group. There would have been long and interesting discussions here in Australia when our IBBY committee were selecting the five books to submit to the HCAA Jury. Here are a few of her picture books for older readers:
And this is the newest book by Margaret Wild - The Amazing Meals of Martha Maloney illustrated by Donna Rawlins.
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