Happy New Year from IBBY around the world

IBBY Australia

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

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

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IBBY UK Christmas Card by Maisie Paradise Shearring

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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

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