HONOUR LIST 2018 © International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), 2018 IBBY Secretariat Nonnenweg 12, Postfach CH-4009 Basel, Switzerland Tel. [int. +4161] 272 29 17 Fax [int. +4161] 272 27 57 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ibby.org Book selection and documentation: IBBY National Sections Editors: Susan Dewhirst, Liz Page and Luzmaria Stauffenegger Design and Cover: Vischer Vettiger Hartmann, Basel Lithography: VVH, Basel Printing: China Children’s Press and Publication Group (CCPPG) Cover illustration: Motifs from nominated books (Nos. 16, 36, 54, 57, 73, 77, 81, 86, 102, www.ijb.de 104, 108, 109, 125 ) We wish to kindly thank the International Youth Library, Munich for their help with the Bibliographic data and subject headings, and the China Children’s Press and Publication Group for their generous sponsoring of the printing of this catalogue. IBBY Honour List 2018 IBBY Honour List 2018 The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of This activity is one of the most effective ways of We use standard British English for the spelling outstanding, recently published children’s books, furthering IBBY’s objective of encouraging inter- foreign names of people and places. Furthermore, honouring writers, illustrators and translators national understanding and cooperation through we have respected the way in which the nomi- from IBBY member countries. children’s literature. nees themselves spell their names in Latin letters. As a general rule, we have written published The 2018 Honour List comprises 191 nomina- An IBBY Honour List has been published every book titles in italics and, whenever possible, tions in 50 different languages from 61 countries. two years since 1956 and the first Honour List added English translation in brackets. There are Selected for the 2018 list are 73 entries in the was a selection of 15 entries from 12 coun- some exceptions when space or information is category of Writing; 59 in the category Illustra- tries. Originally it was called ‘The Hans Christian not available. tion; and 59 in the category Translation. Included Andersen Honour List’, because the same jury for the first time are books in Hausa and Yakut. that selected the recipients of the Hans Christian The IBBY Honour List 2018 is the result of excel- The 2018 IBBY Honour List includes the high- Andersen Awards identified the books selected lent cooperation between the IBBY Secretariat, est number of entries to date – this indicates for the Honour List. Until 1974 there was the participating National Sections who selected an enduring and increasing interest in the IBBY one general category for an Honour Book, i.e. the entries and prepared the nominations, and Honour List. ‘a good book’. That year the category for Illus- the publishers of the nominated books who have tration was added, soon followed by Transla- donated seven copies of each title for exhibitions The titles are selected by the National Sections of tion in 1978. Thus, the base was widened for the and the permanent collections. We wish to thank IBBY, who are invited to nominate books char- National Sections who now took on the role of all of them very much indeed. acteristic of their country and suitable to recom- the selection jury. Although it was not until 1980 mend for publication in different languages. For that the name IBBY Honour List was first used We gratefully acknowledge the support of the countries with more than one national language, and the annotated catalogue that we see today China Children’s Press and Publications Group we accept multiple entries in the categories of was published. (CCPPG) for sponsoring the printing of this cata- writing and translation. However, for illustration logue. IBBY currently continues to accept only one title Great care is taken to provide up-to-date infor- from each National Section. mation about the authors, illustrators, translators The IBBY Honour List 2018 will be introduced and and their publishers, including the subject and the diplomas presented at the 36th IBBY Congress The Honour List has become one of the most language indexes. Even though space and funds in Athens, Greece, on Friday, 31 August 2018. important activities of IBBY. For many National are often limited, it is our wish to provide as much Sections the selection process presents a welcome information as possible in a concise way. Liz Page opportunity to study and review new children’s Luzmaria Stauffenegger in their country. Moreover, it offers a unique We wish to sincerely thank our colleagues at the Susan Dewhirst opportunity to the member countries, especially International Youth Library in Munich for their those with less well-known languages, to present invaluable cooperation and support in prepar- Basel, May 2018 their best books to an international audience. ing this catalogue. They have once again studied The exhibition of Honour List Books is shown at and classified the books, given valuable advice conferences and fairs around the world and the concerning bibliographical practice, translitera- catalogue is translated into different languages tion of scripts that are not in Latin letters, as well and thus reaches more and more people. Each as the very useful subject indexing. We are also Honour List catalogue from 1980 onwards is also pleased to be able to share their knowledge of available through IBBY’s web page – making it the books in the preparation of the annotations even more accessible throughout the world. in this catalogue. 2 3 ARGENTINA (Spanish) 1 ARMENIA (Armenian) 2 AUSTRALIA (English) 3 Writing Siemens, Sandra Sahakyan, Yuri Fraillon, Zana Lucía, no tardes Napo Chorrordy The Bone Sparrow (Lucia do not delay) (Bunny the fourth) Sydney: Hachette, 2016 Buenos Aires: SM, 2015 Ill. Gevorg Poghosyan 234pp; 135x210mm 92pp; 130x210mm Yerevan: Edit Print, 2011 ISBN 978-0-7344-1713-8, Ages: 11+ ISBN 978-987-731-135-8, Ages: 13-18 83pp; 200x200mm Detention centre, refugees, friendship Migration, Argentina 1943-55 ISBN 978-9939-52-021-6, Ages: 4-8 Poetry Until the sudden death of Napo Chorrordy is a witty Subhi is a refugee of her grandmother leads her collection of poems for Rohingya origin, born in an to live in Argentina with her children. The main char- Australian permanent deten- maternal family, Lucía does acters are animals, clowns tion centre, thus life behind not know the whereabouts and dwarves that display the fences is all he has ever of her parents. Lucía starts a both their original nature known. As he grows, his voyage across the ocean that and some human traits. imagination grows too: fed will take her to Bruna, a new In one poem, a dwarf is by the night sea, the fara- friend, and new possibilities so kind, he never wants to upset anyone. From way whales and the birds. to find lost happiness. Lucía, morning to evening he asks everyone’s opinion One night Jimmie, a scruffy, no tardes is a bold novel that links three genera- until he realises he never is able to do what he impatient girl appears from the other side of the tions through wars, separations, losses, a secret, a wants. The poems are full of humour and colour- fence, bringing a notebook written by the mother journey and an expected encounter. The writing fully illustrated. The language is direct and lively she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to is sensitive and fragmented like the memories of and the themes are topical and interesting. unravel her own family’s love songs and trag- the characters and reflects the subtle and myste- edies. Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way rious ways that life binds us. Yuri Sahakyan, born 1937 in Chaylu in the to freedom, but not until each of them has been Mardakert district of Nagorno Karabakh, is one braver than ever before. The writer succeeds – Sandra Siemens was born in 1965 and lives in of the best-loved contemporary children’s writ- mostly through the first-person narrative of Wheelwright, a small town south of Santa Fe. ers in Armenia. He graduated from the Yerevan Subhi’s account – in presenting the claustropho- She has attended many writing workshops, but State University in philology and later studied in bic world of the detention camp with its tedium the most important was the workshop of Alma Moscow. He has worked for a weekly newspaper and heartbreak, major and petty cruelties and Maritano, a well-known Argentinian writer as well as for publishing houses as senior editor unexpected humour. The reader is left ponder- and professor. Sandra Siemens has won several for children’s literature. A poet and translator, he ing themes of hope, freedom, friendship, memory awards and distinctions: she was three times is the author of more than forty works for chil- and the power of stories. finalist for the El Barco de Vapor Award (2004, dren and many of his poems have become songs. 2007 and 2012) and winner in 2009 for her novel His work Alphabet Guide won the Golden Pen Zana Fraillon was born in Melbourne, but spent La muralla. She won the Norma-Fundalectura State Award of Armenia in 1999. her early childhood in San Francisco. She studied Award in 2008 and was twice selected for the history at university before training to become a White Ravens catalogue: in 2010 with her novel primary teacher. She spent a year in China teach- El hombre de los pies-murciélago and in 2015 ing English and now lives in Melbourne. She has with La tortilla de papas. Tatuajes was selected written two picture books for young children, by Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil a series for middle readers, and the novel, No de la Argentina (ALIJA) as the best young adult Stars to Wish On (2014), a story about a boy novel in 2015 and Lucía, no tardes was selected taken from home and put in an orphanage.