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
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IBBY Thailand
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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
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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
