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Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New Year from IBBY around the world

Matt Ottley, 2024 nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, created and donated the artwork for this very beautiful image, entitled 'Hope'.

Let’s join hands and wish for a New Year of peace, friendship and warmth for all the children of the world. At IBBY, we will continue working hard in 2024 to make these wishes come true thanks to books. 🩷 A huge thanks to Matthew Cordell for allowing us to use his beautiful illustration from his award-winning “Wolf in the Snow”. IBBY.org

IBBY Greece - a message for peace by Angeliki Darlasi, illustrated by Kelly Matathia Covo

IBBY Indonesia

IBBY Sri Lanka

IBBY Ukraine

IBBY Pakistan

IBBY Estonia

Saint Petersburg

IBBY Thailand

IBBY Malaysia

USBBY United States of America

IBBY Lithuania (see their poem at the end of this post) Illustration by: Aušra Kiudulaitė

IBBY Spain

IBBY UK Christmas Card by Maisie Paradise Shearring

IBBY Venezuela

IBBY Turkiye

IBBY Latvia

IBBY Sweden

IBBY Slovenia

IBBY New Zealand

IBBY Iran

IBBY Chile

IBBY Armenia

IBBY Croatia

Poem from Lithuania

THE TALE OF THE MIDDLE

Nice and warm under the snow.

Blizzards are laying white silk.

After the snow, after the snow

Sleep is a fairy tale for children.

But on silent Christmas night

The tale will have to be followed,

The trees will need to be lit

On that silent Christmas night.

Out of the blizzards,

Speigau,

Speigau -

Get up, according to the kids!

Violeta Palčinskaite

Peaceful Kūčiai, happy holidays. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Board of IBBY Lithuanian chapter

Here is a list of all the IBBY sections.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Knock Knock by Catherine Meatheringham ilustrated by Deb Hudson

Knock on some doors around the world.

Who will you meet?

What will you do?

Klopf Klopf I am Lotta in Germany; Tukituki I am Loa from Tonga; Kon Kon I am Yuzuki from Japan, Daqq Daqq I am Karim from Egypt, Toc Toc I am Mateo from Mexico, and Thak Thak I am Sana from India. For your youngest children there is a wild map at the back with each door and 'knock knock' word. The end papers could inspire an art activity. Oh, and when you knock on each door the young child who greets you invites you in to meet their family, share a meal, come to a party, visit their school, or play a game. Teachers should add Knock Knock their list of books to share for Harmony Day.

With vibrant illustrations and fun knocking sounds, this is a joyous celebration of children, culture and language around the world.

This book gave me a huge smile because it is such a simple and perhaps obvious idea, but I have never seen a book before that explored the simple gesture of knocking on a door and the way this is so different around the world. I do hope the publisher has submitted this for our CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) Early Childhood award (2024). Many years ago the CBCA Book Week slogan was Doorways - this book would have been such a perfect way to explore that idea.

Here is a web page for Catherine Meatheringham - she lives in Canberra. I previously talked about Milly and the Mulberry Tree illustrated by Deb Hudson.

Catherine talked to The Canberra Times:

"All of my books have onomatopoeia in them, so I love books with sounds that encourage kids to join in with the stories, especially that early childhood market, so that they are part of the story and engaged," she said.

"This one, in particular, I'm really passionate about kids being exposed to different cultures and different lives, but also we have such a multicultural society in Australia and this is a way to showcase that element as well."

Reading Knock Knock, reminded me of another book - Norman Speak - which looks at the way a young boy needs to translate talking to his dog.

And Catherine Meatheringham and Deb Hudson have made a book about this too:

And I need to read this one:

I also thought of this old favourite - a book about knocking on a door, which I read to hundreds of Kindergarten children over the 33 years I worked in a number of school libraries. It would be a fun companion book and it is one of the best ever books to read aloud - with heaps of funny voices and tons of expression.

Friday, January 13, 2023

Christmas and New Year Greetings from IBBY Sections around the world

Here is a selection of the 2022 IBBY greetings - our Australian one is above with art by our Honour Book recipient Philip Bunting. You might like to begin with a look at the greetings from 2021.