IBBY Honour List 2008
IBBY Honour List 2008 1 IBBY Honour List 2008 The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of The Honour List has become one of the most Great care is taken to provide up-to-date infor- The IBBY Honour List 2008 is the result of excel- outstanding, recently published books, honour- important activities of IBBY. For many National mation about the authors, illustrators, transla- lent cooperation between the IBBY Secretariat, ing writers, illustrators and translators from IBBY Sections the selection process presents a welcome tors and their publishers, including the subject the participating National Sections who selected member countries. opportunity to study and review the production and language indexes. Even though space and the entries and prepared the nominations, and of children’s and juvenile books in their coun- funds are often limited, it is our wish to provide the publishers of the nominated books who The fi rst Honour List in 1956 was a selection try on a continuing basis. Moreover, it offers a as much information as possible in a concise way donated seven copies of each title for exhibitions of 15 entries from 12 countries. For the 2008 unique opportunity to the member countries, and to promote access to the books. and the permanent collections. We wish to thank Honour List, 59 countries have sent 169 nomi- especially those with less well-known languages, all of them very much indeed. nations in 48 different languages. to present their best books to an international We wish to sincerely thank our colleagues of the audience. The exhibition of Honour List Books International Youth Library in Munich for their We gratefully acknowledge the support of Grupo Selected for the 2008 list are 69 entries in the is shown at conferences and fairs around the invaluable cooperation and support in prepar- EDEBÉ, Barcelona, Spain for sponsoring the print- category of Writing; 54 in the category Illustra- world and the catalogue is translated into differ- ing this catalogue.
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