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2020 | The White Ravens The White Ravens White | he Rav T en A Selection of International Children‘s and Youth Literature s l 2 0 2020 2 0 I n t e r n a t io na le k J the ugendbiblio Emma AdBåge Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek · Schloss Blutenburg · München · www.ijb.de Internationale Jugendbibliothek 2020 | The White Ravens A Selection of International Children‘s and Youth Literature Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek IMPRESSUM The White Ravens 2020 This publication is available as PDF at: A Selection of International Children‘s and Youth Literature bit.ly/WhiteRavens2020 The White Ravens Database: Copyright © 2020 by Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek whiteravens.ijb.de/list Editor: Dr. Christiane Raabe Editorial work: Jochen Weber Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek Translation: Dr. Frances Bottenberg, Claudia Söffner Schloss Blutenburg Copy editing: Dr. Nikola von Merveldt Seldweg 15 81247 Munich, Germany Tel.: +49 89 8912110 Selection and texts: E-mail: [email protected] Theodora Arampatzi [TA]: Greek | Prof. Dr. Young Eun Chang www.ijb.de [YC], Prof. Dr. Moonsun Choi [MC] and Prof. Dr. Sojin Park [SP]: Korean | Toin Duijx [TD]: Dutch, Frisian | Prof. Dr. Fang Weiping ISSN 1818-6319 [FW] and Dr. Zhao Xia [ZX]: Chinese | Dr. Ines Galling [IG]: Danish, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish | The Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek (International Youth Library Dr. Azad Hamoto [AH]: Arabic | Dr. Leila (Roya) Maktabi Fard Foundation) is institutionally funded by: German Federal Ministry of Family [RM]: Persian (Farsi) | Reina Nakano [RN]: Japanese | Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth; Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts; City of Munich. Lucia Obi [LO]: Chinese, Filipino, Myanmar | Claudia Söffner [CS], with the support of Betsy Bird, Michelle Bourgeois [MB], Valerie Coghlan, Áine Ní Ghlinn, Dr. Nikola von Merveldt [NvM], and Dr. Junko Yokota [JY]: English, Irish | Silvana Sola [SO], with the support of Gabriele Poeschke: Italian | Dr. Ilgım Veryeri Alaca [IVA]: Turkish | Jochen Weber [JW]: Portuguese, Spanish Sibylle Weingart [SW]: French | Dr. Katja Wiebe [KW]: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian Layout: Eva Geck, Ute Konstanzer Typesetting: Thomas Pleiner mtp-studio Cover illustration: Emma AdBåge Also funded by: Copyright © 2020 by Emma AdBåge Catalogue cover: Copyright © 2019 by Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek | Emma AdBåge’s book »Gropen« (The pit) (Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 2018) was selected for »The White Ravens 2019«. 2 CONTENTS PREFACE ........................................................................ 4 ICELANDIC • Iceland ............................................ 63 IRISH • Ireland ............................................ 64 ARABIC • Lebanon ................................................... 6 ITALIAN • Italy ................................................. 64 • Morocco .................................................. 6 JAPANESE • Japan ............................................. 68 • Palestine ................................................... 7 ........................ • United Arab Emirates ............................. 7 KOREAN • Republic of Korea 72 ............................................. BULGARIAN • Bulgaria ........................................................8 LATVIAN • Latvia 75 CHINESE • People’s Republic of China ........................9 LITHUANIAN • Lithuania ....................................... 76 • Singapore .................................................. 11 MACEDONIAN • North Macedonia ......................... 77 • Taiwan ........................................................ 12 MYANMAR • Myanmar ........................................ 78 CROATIAN • Croatia ..................................................... 13 NORWEGIAN • Norway .......................................... 78 CZECH • Czech Republic ....................................... 14 PERSIAN (FARSI) • Iran ................................................ 80 .................................................. DANISH • Denmark 16 POLISH • Poland ........................................... 82 .................................................... DUTCH • Belgium 18 PORTUGUESE • Brazil .............................................. 84 • Netherlands ............................................. 19 • Portugal ......................................... 87 ENGLISH • Australia ................................................... 22 RUSSIAN • Russia ............................................ 88 • Canada ..................................................... 25 SERBIAN • Serbia ............................................ 89 • Great Britain ............................................. 28 SLOVAK • Slovakia ........................................ 90 • India ........................................................ 32 • ........................................ • New Zealand ............................................ 33 SLOVENIAN Slovenia 90 ...................................... • USA ........................................................ 34 SPANISH • Argentina 92 .............................................. ESTONIAN • Estonia ....................................................... 40 • Chile 93 FILIPINO • Philippines ................................................. 41 • Colombia ...................................... 94 FINNISH • Finland ...................................................... 42 • Mexico ........................................... 95 FRENCH • Belgium .................................................... 42 • Spain ............................................ 96 • Canada ..................................................... 43 • Venezuela ....................................100 • France ...................................................... 44 SWEDISH • Sweden ........................................100 .............................................. • Switzerland 51 TURKISH • Turkey ..........................................104 • ............................................. FRISIAN Netherlands 51 UKRAINIAN • Ukraine .......................................105 GERMAN • Austria ...................................................... 52 • Germany .................................................. 53 NAME INDEX ....................................................106 • Switzerland .............................................. 60 SUBJECT INDEX ....................................................109 GREEK • Greece ..................................................... 61 READING AGE INDEX .............................................112 The White Ravens 2020 © Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek 3 PREFACE With great pleasure, we present to you the 2020 edi- Therefore, we are all the more delighted and grate- tion of our annual catalogue »The White Ravens«. ful that, despite the adversities, publishers, insti- tutions, and organisations, as well as authors and This year, the cover features two children sitting illustrators, have found ways to continue support- comfortably on a sofa. In the warm glow of a lamp, ing the International Youth Library with donation they pass the time reading. A curious raven is and review copies of their new publications. peering attentively into their book. This picture was created by Swedish illustrator Emma AdBåge, Thanks to their support, we are able to present the whose book »Gropen« was selected for the »White 2020 edition of the »White Ravens« catalogue, the Ravens 2019« and she is on the list again with her most important annual publication of the Inter- new book. national Youth Library. It aims to promote quality in children's book publishing and has become an The scene depicted by Emma AdBåge shows an increasingly useful tool for anyone interested in interior space. The world remains outside and can looking beyond national borders. This year, the only be seen through the window. Perhaps this is »White Ravens« contain a selection of 200 notable a symbol for this year, in which a virus has almost children's and young adult books from 56 countries brought normal life to a standstill, at least tempora- published in 36 languages. rily, and countless people all over the world have been forced into isolation within their four walls. As usual, we publish the »White Ravens« prior to the Frankfurt Book Fair. However, since this fair, which Activities in the International Youth Library have is of such importance internationally, is forced to take also been severely restricted in recent months. place mostly in virtual space this year, we decided to Much of what was previously taken for granted and produce a digital-only version this time instead of a shapes our work was suddenly no longer possible printed edition. You can download our 2020 cata- or only to a certain extent. For a time, many inter- logue as a PDF file from our website www.ijb.de. national contacts, which are so important to us, were interrupted. We heard from several publishers In addition to being featured in the catalogue, the about the enormous problems and challenges they reviews, bibliographical data, and book covers are were, and still are, facing due to the restrictions also available in the »White Ravens« database on during the pandemic. whiteravens.ijb.de/list. 4 For decades now, all recommended books have The library’s in-house staff members in Munich cover been put on display in hard copy at the Internatio- many literary regions, and freelance