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IBBY NATIONAL SECTIONS 2006-2008 Summary of Biennial Reports
IBBY SecretariatNonnenweg 12PostfachCH-4003 Basel Switzerland
Tel. +4161-272 29 17Fax +4161-272 27 57E-mail: [email protected]: www.ibby.org
CONTENTS
Foreword 3
IBBY Executive Committee 2006-2008 4
List of Countries with National Sections of IBBY in June 2008 5
Information requested for the Biennial Reports 2006-2008 6-8
Representatives and Organization 9-19 Representatives Office arrangements Membership Table 1: Representatives and Organization
Funding 20-30 Budgets Support for IBBY dues specifically Membership fees Government grants Grants by other organizations and institutions Individual sponsors and donors Publications Other sources of income Table 2: Funding
National Sections' activities 31-51 Communication Different sections’ highlights Table 3: National Sections’ activities
Cooperation with IBBY: International activities 53-56 Congresses and General Assemblies International Children's Book Day Table 4: Cooperation with IBBY: International activities
Cooperation with IBBY: Award Nominations 57-64 Hans Christian Andersen Awards IBBY Honour List IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities Table 5: Cooperation with IBBY: Nominations
Cooperation with other National Sections 65-68
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Foreword
This summary of the National Sections’ Biennial Reports 2006-08 gives a broad picture of the National Sections and through it the very intensive and extended activities that are run around the world by our members. This is the strength, or backbone of IBBY and through the members' biennial reports we can assess the growth and effectiveness of IBBY.
Although autonomous in the way they organize themselves, the National Sections share the IBBY mission and objectives of bringing children and books together. This common goal brings friends from every part of the world together, thus, achieving Jella Lepman’s dream of forging international understanding through children’s books.
As always, financial difficulties, lack of recognition and poor resources can be stumbling blocks, but in general all our members fulfil their aims and successfully organize their activities. Often the IBBY section is the leading organization for children’s literature in its country.
This summary is based on data submitted every two years to the Secretariat and includes information about the structure, the sources of funding and the national and international activities of each National Section. All information, including the contact details, reflects the membership as at June 2008. For current contact information go to IBBY Worldwide on the IBBY website: www.ibby.org.
We would like to thank all those National Sections who submitted their biennial reports. The submission of a biennial report is one of the basic conditions of IBBY membership and we would like to encourage full participation by all members in this essential reporting.
IBBY is made up of many parts and all of them inspire, encourage and motivate us!
Liz PageForest Zhang
IBBY SecretariatJuly 2009
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IBBY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2006 – 2008
PresidentPatricia AldanaGroundwood Books110 Spadina Avenue, Suite 108Toronto, ON MV 2K4 - CanadaE-mail: [email protected]
Vice PresidentsElda NogueiraFundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil, FLNIJRua da Imprensa 16Salas 1212 a 121520.030-120 Rio de Janeiro RJBrazilE-mail: [email protected]
Ellis Vance5555 N. West Avenue #159, FresnoCA 93711, USAE-mail: [email protected]
MembersAnastasia ArkhipovaUl. Begovaya 7-9, 91 RU-125284 Moscow, RussiaE-mail: [email protected]
Niklas BengtssonKolmas linja 5A 16 FI-00530 Helsinki, FinlandE-mail: [email protected]
Hannelore DaubertBischofsweg 15ADE- 60598 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyE-mail: [email protected]
Reina DuarteEditorial EdebeP. San Juan Bosco 62ES-08017 Barcelona, SpainE-mail: [email protected]
Elena Iribarren98 rue NolletFR-75017 Paris, FranceE-mail: [email protected] [email protected]
Ann LazimCentre for Literacy in Primary Education – CLPEWebber StreetGB-London SE1 8QW, UKE-mail: [email protected]
Ahmad Redza Ahmad KhairuddinRhythm Consolidated Berhad15-4-4, 4th floor, Bangunan Setia 115 Lorong DungunDamansara Heights50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: [email protected]
Ira SaxenaB-169, Sector 44Noida 201301, IndiaE-mail: [email protected]
H.C. Andersen Jury PresidentZohreh Ghaenic/o Children’s Book Council of Iran (IBBY Iran)P.O. Box 13145-133 Tehran, IranE-mail: [email protected]
TreasurerUrs BreitensteinPostfachCH-4001 Basel, SwitzerlandE-mail: [email protected]
BookbirdValerie CoghlanChurch of Ireland College of Education96 Upper Rathmines RoadDublin 6, IrelandE-mail: [email protected]
Siobhán Parkinson7 Kenilworth ParkDublin 6W, IrelandE-mail: [email protected]
IBBY SecretariatNonnenweg 12, PostfachCH-4003 Basel, SwitzerlandTel +4161-272 29 17Fax +4161-272 27 57E-mail: [email protected]: www.ibby.org
Director Member Services,Communications and New ProjectsElizabeth PageE-mail: [email protected]
Deputy Administrative DirectorForest ZhangE-mail: [email protected]
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LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH NATIONAL SECTION OF IBBY – June 2008
Total of 72 countries
Not all NS answered the questionnaire 2006-2008. In the list below, the 59 NS that returned their completed questionnaires have been marked with an *
Albania*Argentina*Australia*Austria*Belgium*Bolivia*Brazil*Canada*ChileChinaColombia*Croatia*CubaCyprus*Czech Republic*Denmark*Ecuador*Egypt*Estonia*Finland*France*Germany*GhanaGreece*GuatemalaHaïtiHungary*Iceland*India*Indonesia*Iran*Ireland*IsraelItalyJapan*Korea, Republic of*
Latvia*Lebanon*Lithuania*Malaysia*Mexico*Moldova*Mongolia*Nepal*Netherlands*New Zealand*Norway*PakistanPalestine*Peru*Poland*PortugalRomania*Russia*Rwanda*Serbia*Slovakia*Slovenia*South Africa*SpainSweden*Switzerland*Thailand*Turkey*Uganda*Ukraine*United Kingdom*United States of America*Uruguay*Venezuela*ZambiaZimbabwe
INFORMATION REQUESTED FOR THE NS BIENNIAL REPORTS
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1 Country
1.2 Name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail and website of the National Section (NS)
1.3 Representatives1.3.1 President of the National Section (NS)1.3.2 Secretary or main executive officer of the NS1.3.3 IBBY main Liaison Officer or contact person
1.4 OrganizationStructure
1.4.1 How is your NS organized? Describe the structure of the NS in general. 1.4.2 Is your NS affiliated to, or a branch of another organization or institution? If
so, which one?1.4.3 Do you have an office and paid staff? 1.4.4 How often do you have business meetings?
Membership1.4.5 Does your NS have organizations as members? How many? What kind of
organizations? 1.4.6 Does your NS have individual members? How many? How do they contribute
to the NS activities?1.4.7 Who are your members? What percentage are: teachers? authors?
illustrators? publishers? students? etc.1.4.8 What categories of membership, if any, does your NS have?1.4.9 How often do you keep in touch with your members? How?
2. FUNDING
2.1 Annual Budget What is your average annual budget in US$? Is it increasing or decreasing?
2.2 Sources of income2.2.1 Is there a membership fee? How much is it? What percentage of your budget
does this account for?2.2.2 Do you receive financial support from individual sponsors and/or donors? If
so, how much? What percentage of your budget does this account for?2.2.3 Do you receive grants from your government? If so, how much? What
percentage of your budget does this account for?
2.2.4 Do you receive grants from national institutions or other organizations? If so, how much? What percentage of your budget does this account for?
2.2.5 Have other NS contributed any financial support? If so, how much?2.2.6 Do you generate income through publications? If so, how much? What
percentage of your budget does this account for?2.2.7 Do you have other sources of income not mentioned above? What are they
and what percentage of your budget do they account for?2.2.8 Are the sources of income listed in points 2.2.1 to 2.2.7 regular contributions? 2.2.9 Do you receive support specifically for your IBBY dues? If so, from whom?2.2.10 Describe successful fundraising strategies your NS has developed.
3. THE NATIONAL SECTION´S ACTIVITIES
3.1 Main activities3.1.1 Has your NS organized national, regional or international meetings and
conferences? Which ones?3.1.2 Have members of your NS represented IBBY at other national, regional or
international meetings and/or conferences?3.1.3 Does your NS organize courses or seminars at a local level? Who are these
aimed at?3.1.4 Does your NS organize or host exhibitions and/or fairs?3.1.5 Does your NS administer awards or prizes? Does it organize contests?3.1.6 Does your NS run a library or bookstore?3.1.7 Has your NS organized other activities? Which ones have been especially
successful in your country? Please specify.
3.2 Communication3.2.1 Does your NS have a website? What is its URL?3.2.2 Does your NS publish a regular newsletter? Who receives this? Is it available
online?3.2.3 Does your NS develop lists of book selections? Which ones?3.2.4 What, if any, are your other regular publications? Please give names (original
and translation into English) and a description of their content and purpose.3.2.5 Does your NS work with national media to promote your own activities or the
work of IBBY?
3.3 Cooperation at a national level3.3.1 Is your NS consulted about children’s books in your country? By whom?3.3.2 Are there NGOs or established institutions in your country for which the
development of a children’s reading and publishing culture is an objective? Which ones? Are you informed of their projects and needs?
3.3.3 Does your NS collaborate with these agencies?
4. COOPERATION WITH IBBY
4.1 International activities in cooperation with IBBYCongresses and General Assemblies
4.1.1 How many of your members participated in the last two IBBY Congresses and General Assemblies?
4.1.2 Does your NS participate in IBBY regional conferences? If so, which ones?International Children’s Book Day (ICBD)
4.1.3 What activities, if any, does your NS organize to celebrate the ICBD?4.1.4 Did you design your own poster? If not, did you use the message and poster
of the sponsoring NS?4.1.5 How do you disseminate information about the ICBD?
IBBY Awards and projects 4.1.6 Did your NS present any nominations for the Hans Christian Andersen
Awards? If so, who were the nominees? If not, why not?4.1.7 Did your NS present any nominations for the IBBY Honour List? If so, who
were the nominees? If not, why not?4.1.8 Did your NS nominate a project for the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion
Award? If so, which one?4.1.9 Did you nominate any titles for the Outstanding Books for Young People with
Disabilities selection?4.1.10 Did you donate or recommend any books for the IBBY Documentation Centre
of Books for Disabled Young People? If so, how many?4.1.11 Did you host any IBBY travelling exhibitions (Honour List, HCA, Books for
Disabled, etc.)? If so, where and when were they exhibited?Bookbird and other projects
4.1.12 How many members of your NS have individual subscriptions to Bookbird? 4.1.13 Does your NS have a Bookbird associate editor? Have you contributed any
articles to, or cooperated with Bookbird?4.1.14 Have you participated in any other IBBY international activities not listed
above? If so, which ones?
4.2 Cooperation with other National Sections4.2.1 Are you involved in regional cooperation with other NS? What is the nature of
this cooperation?4.2.2 Do you cooperate bilaterally with other NS? What is the nature of this
cooperation?4.2.3 Do you exchange newsletters or information with other NS? If so, how often?4.2.4 What, in your opinion, have been the major obstacles to greater cooperation
between NS?
5. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
REPRESENTATION AND ORGANIZATION
To a large extent, the NS are directed and represented by a President, a Secretary General or Executive Officer and up to two Liaison Officers. Their names, as at June 2008, are listed in the following table. The current contact information can be found on the IBBY website: www.ibby.org
Other staff members, often employed by supporting organizations, occasionally complement these core representatives. It is worth noting that many of the NS rely on voluntary work and usually develop a great number of wide-reaching activities.
Of the 59 NS that completed and returned the BR, 20 said that they were affiliated or were a branch of another institution; 39 declared themselves to be totally independent. Thus, there is not a prevalence of a single structure, though independent NS are in the majority.
Affiliated to another organization or branch of an institution: Australia, Belgium (Flemish branch), Bolivia, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, Venezuela.
Independent: Albania, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay.
There are NS with their own office and some that do not have one: 38 of the NS have an office and 21 do not. NS with an office: Argentina, Austria, Belgium (Flemish branch), Bolivia, Brazil,
Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, New Zealand, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela
No office: Albania, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Rwanda, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay
Different NS have different rules regarding their membership. In some cases, membership is restricted to organizations, usually because the IBBY NS is an umbrella organization (e.g. Austria and Croatia). In other cases, members are exclusively individual members, although these will sometimes represent a publishing house or an organization that they direct. By far the most common pattern for membership is a combination of organizations and individuals.
In almost all cases, the NS charge membership fees. Many NS have different categories of membership such as: Student, Individual, Organization, Donor, etc. Most of the NS say that membership fees cover only a small part of their budget.
TABLE 1: REPRESENTATIVES AND ORGANIZATION (as of June 2008)
National Section
Representatives Contact details Paid staff Frequency of board & business meetings
Individual members
Organizations as members
Albania Ms. Shpresa VretoMr Viktor Canosinaj
Home of Books for Children “Hermann Gmeiner”Rr. “Jordan Misja”Unazë, te Konvikti i Shkollës elektrikeTirana
No 2-3/yr 15 None
Argentina Ms Susana ItzcovichMs Cristina Thomson
ALIJA (Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de Argentina)México 1320 - 2ºA. Buenos [email protected]á@[email protected]
No Monthly 300 None
Australia Ms Margaret ZeegersMs Linda Hale
School of EducationUniversity of BallaratPO Box 663, [email protected]
No Occasional virtual meetings by email
24 None
Austria Ms Renate WelshMs Karin HallerMs Sabine Fuchs
International Institute for Children’s Literature and Reading ResearchMayerhofgasse 6AT-1040 [email protected]
Yes 1/yr 0 10
Belgium (Flemish branch)
Ms Majo de SaedeleerMs Eva Devos
IBBY Belgium, Flemish branchp/a Stichting LezenFrankrijklei 130/4BE-2000 Antwerpenwww.stichtinglezen.be
Yes 3/yr 88 15publishers, public libraries and book shops
Bolivia Ms Gaby VallejoMs Lidia Coca
IBBY - Bolivia Box 5240 Cochabamba [email protected]
No Weekly with volunteers;Monthly with teachers;2/yr with other members
Approx. 55 None
Brazil Ms Gisela ZinconeMs Elizabeth D’Angelo Serra
Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e JuvenilRua da Imprensa, 16 sala 1212 a 121520030-120 Rio de Janeiro [email protected] www.fnlij.org.br
Yes Board of Directors: every 2 weeksCurator Board 2/yr
203 77 – mainly publishing houses
Canada Ms Brenda HallidayMs. Patricia OcampoMs Susan Shipton
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre40 Orchard View Blvd, Suite 101Toronto, Ontario, M4R [email protected]
No 5/yr 79 14
Colombia Mr Juan Guillermo GiraldoMs Carmen BarvoMs María Cristina Rincón
FundalecturaAv. (Calle) 40 #16-46; Apartado 048902Bogotá [email protected]
Yes 12/yr None None
Croatia Ms Davorka BastićMs Ranka Javor
Croatian Centre for Children’s BookStarčevićev trg 6HR-10 000 [email protected]
1 4/yr 0 Unspecifiednumber
Cyprus Mr Costas KatsonisMs Maria IoannouMs Elena Kyriakidou
Cyprus Association on Books for Young People53, Xanthis Xenierou strCY-1015 Nicosia www.cybby.org
No 12/yr 430 0
Czech Republic
Ms Jana ČeňkováMs Karolina Hejdukova
Česká sekce IBBYc/o Obec spisovatelůŽelezná 18CZ-110 01 Prague [email protected], [email protected]
No 4-5/yr 117 37
Denmark Mr Jan Tøth Buddingevej 281.2.tv.DK-2860 Sø[email protected]
No 9-10/yr 173 61
Ecuador Ms Leonor Bravo Velásquez Ms Liset Lantigua González
GIRANDULA, Asociación ecuatoriana del libro infantil y juvenil Box [email protected]
Yes 2/yr 20 8
Egypt Ms Suzanne MubarakMs Farida El Wakil ElreedyMs Nadia El-Kohly
EBBY42 Abdulla Diraz st., El Golf Area Heliopolis, Cairo [email protected]
1 12/yr 150 0
Estonia Ms Anu KehmanMs Viive Noor
c/o Estonian Children's Literature Centre Pikk 73EE-10133 [email protected]/ibby
No 8/yr 35 5
Finland Ms Kaarina KoluMs Maija KorhonenMs Teresia Volotinen
c/o Kaarina Kolu, Kalatorppa 2 D 72FI-02230 Espoo, [email protected]
No 8-9/yr 14 162
France Ms Laurence Kiefé Ms Viviane EzrattyMs Nathalie Beau
Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse - la Joie par les livres25 boulevard de Strasbourg. FR-75010 Parisnathalie.beau@lajoieparleslivres.comwww.lajoieparleslivres.com
Yes 2 or 3/yr 100 0
Germany Ms Regina PantosMs Doris BreitmoserMs Kristina Bernd
Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (AKJ)Metzstrasse. 14 cDE-81667 [email protected]
Yes 5/yr 200 40
Greece Mr Vangelis IliopoulosMs Vassiliki NikaMs Eva Kaliskami
Circle of the Greek Children’s BookBouboulinas 28GR-10682 [email protected]
No 12/yr 360 0
Hungary Mr Pál BékésMs Katalin Kiss
Hungarian Section of IBBY1, Szabó Ervin tér, HU-1088 Budapest bekespal@t-online. hu or [email protected]
No 2 executive meetings per year; 2 general assemblies per year
50 2
Iceland Ms Gudlaug RichterMs Thorbjorg Karlsdottir
P.O. Box 4103IS-124 Reykjaví[email protected]
No 12/yr 127 145
India Ms Nilima SinhaMs Manorama JafaMs Ira Saxena
Indian BBY / Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children (AWIC)Nehru House, 4 Bahadur Shah Zafar MargNew Dehli. 110 [email protected]
3 10/yr 528 1
Indonesia Ms Murti BunantaMs Ida Farida
INABBYITC Permata Hijau, Rukan Diamond No. 22 & 23, Jl. Arteri Permata Hijau, Jakarta 12210 [email protected]
No 12/yr Yes, not specified
Yes, not specified
Iran Ms Noushin AnsariMs Touran Mirhadi
69 Shahid Vahid Nazari, Aburayhan St.Enghelab Avenue, TehranPO Box [email protected] www.cbc.ir
26 2/month 900 8
Ireland Ms Valerie Coghlan Ms Deirdre ShortallMs Marian Keyes
17 North Great Georges StreetIE-Dublin 1 [email protected]
No 12/yr Yes, unspecified number
Yes, unspecified number
Japan Mr Tadashi MatsuiMs Naoko Torizuka
JBBY6 Fukuro-machi, Shinjuku-kuTokyo [email protected], www.jbby.org
2 Executive Board meeting: 12/yr;General Assembly: 2/yr
540 52 regular members and 15 supporting members
Republic of Korea
Mr Kang Woo HyonMs Kim Miseon
KBBYOffice: 2F., 157 Insa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-290 KoreaPresident: 198 Bangha-ri, Namsan-myeon, Chuncheon City, Kangwon-do, [email protected] , www.kbby.org
1 4/yr 21 committee members
Latvia Ms Ilze StikaneMs Silvija Tretjakova
LBBYLatvijas Bernu un jaunatnes literaturas padome (LBJLP)Terbatas iela 75, LV-1001 [email protected]
12/yr 780 0
Lebanon Ms Julinda Abu NasrMs Aida NamaanMs Huda Hammoud
LBBYc/o Lebanese American UniversityP.O. Box 13-5053, [email protected]
No 12/yr 35 1Lebanese Library Association
Lithuania Mr Kestutis UrbaMs Aldona Augustaitiene
Children’s Literature Centre of the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of LithuaniaGedimino Ave 51, LT- 01504 [email protected]
No 6/yr for Board meeting; 2/yr for members meeting.
88 0
Malaysia Ms Shahaneem HanoumMs Suzliana Abdul Hamid
Majlis Buku Kanak-Kanak Remaja MalaysiaPerbadanan perpustakaan Awam Selangord/a Perspustakaan Raja Tun Uda 40572Shah Alam, Selangor
No 6/yr 147 25
Mexico Mr Bruno NewmanMs María del Mar Argüelles Ms Azucena Galindo Ortega
A Leer / IBBY MéxicoParque España 13-ACol. CondesaC.P. 06140 DF Mé[email protected]
24 12/yr 817
Moldova Ms Claudia BalabanMr Vasile RomanciucMs Eugenia Bejan
National Children’s Library “Ion Creangă”65 Şciusev streetMD-2012 Chişină[email protected]
No General Conference: every 2 yearsEC: 4/yr
10 65
Mongolia Ms Sunjidmaa Jamba
P.O. Box 421, Ulaanbaatar [email protected]
No 4/yr Unspecified 4
Nepal Mr Biswambhar ChanchalMr Tej Prakash ShresthaMr Chudamani Bandhu
Nepalese Society for Children’s Literature25- Shastri Marg, Kathmandu- [email protected]
Yes 6-12/yr 104 1-2
Netherlands Ms Truusje Vrooland-LöbMr Toin Dujix
P.O. Box 17 162NL-1001 JD [email protected]/ibby/
No 5/yr 275 aggregate of individuals and organizations under banner ‘Friends of IBBY’
New Zealand
Mr Wayne MillsMs Tessa Duder
Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand c/o University of Auckland Faculty of EducationP.O. Box 96 064, Balmoral, Aucklandwww.storylines.org.nz
No Every six weeks unspecified 5 organizationsmembers
Norway Ms Ragnhild MadsenMs Marianne BorthenMs Heidi Hovemoen
Bekkasinvn 83NO-2008 [email protected]
No 7-9/yr 160 186
Palestine Ms Jehan HelouMs Mary FashehMs Arham Damne
PBBYP.O. Box 51352, [email protected] ; [email protected]
No 1/week or 1/month 50 Unspecified number
Peru Ms Nora Ravines de PeñaMr Marcos ChipanaMs Lilly C. de Cueto
CEDILI – IBBY PERUCalle Francisco del Castillo 148, Lima 18 [email protected]
1 12/yr 30 0
Poland Ms Maria KulikMs Anna Kotlonek-KowalikMs Ewa Swierzewska
Ul. Freta 11 /8PL-00-227 Warsaw [email protected] , www.ibby.pl
1 4/yr 140 0
Romania Mr.Claudiu IstrateMrs. Andreea Badiceanu
The Union of Publishers from Romania Casa Presei Libere, no.1, room 457District 1, RO-013701 [email protected] , www.uer.ro
No Whenever necessary Unspecified, mainly publishers
0
Russia Moscow: Mr Sergey MikhalkovMs Angela Lebedeva
St. Petersburg Branch:Ms Ludmila SecretarevaMs Ekaterina Zagorskaya
c/o Russian Cultural FoundationGogolevsky bvr., 6RU-119 019 [email protected]
St. Petersburg Branch c/o Central Children’s City Library 33, Bolshaya Morskaya St.RU-190 000 St [email protected]
2 2/yr for EC;1/yr for all members
50 17
Rwanda Mr Arthur Barigye Mugunga Ms Agnes Gyr-Ukunda
AREL (Association Rwandaise des Editeurs et des Libraires)c/o Bakame Editions, Remera, B.P. 4281, [email protected]
No 2/yr 0 8
Serbia Ms Dragana Litricin DunicMr Bogdan Konstadinovic
Dositejeva Street. No.5SR-110 00 [email protected], [email protected]
No 12/yr 40 15
Slovak Republic
Mr Ján UlicianskyMs Lubica KepstovaMs Eva Cíferská
BIBIANA, Panská 41 SK-815 39 Bratislava [email protected], [email protected]
1 4/yr 98 0
Slovenia Ms Tilka JamnikMs Irena Miš Svoljšak
Mestna knjižnica LjubljanaKersnikova 2SI-1000 [email protected]
No 2-3/yr 15 17
www.koz.siSouth Africa
Mr Robin MalanMs Yvette Couperthwaite
Box 847, Howard Place, 7450 [email protected]
1 4/yr 220 30
Sweden Ms Eva FredMr Jan HanssonMs Christina Björk
c/o Svenska BarnboksinstitutetOdengatan 61SE-113 22 [email protected]
No 7/yr 63 48
Switzerland Ms Christine HolligerMs Denise von Stockar
Kinder- und Jugendmedien Schweiz, c/o Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und JugendmedienZeltweg 11, CH-8032 [email protected]
No 4/yr 3500 institutional and individual members
Thailand Mr Kasem WattanachaiMs Porn-Anong Niyomka
Books for Children Foundation 23/26 Moo 10 Petchakasem 60/2 Road, Bangduan, Pasicharoen, Bangkok [email protected]@hotmail.com
11 1/yr for general meeting;2/yr for board meeting
5000 Unspecified number
Turkey Ms Nur İçözüMs Tülin SadıkoğluMs Gülcin Alpöge
Çocuk ve Gençlik Yayınları Derneği Necati Bey CaddesiBaş Cerrah Sokağı No. 6/A Karaköy - [email protected]
No 12/yr 120 0
Uganda Ms Evangeline Ledi BarongoMr Ronald Ssentuwa’Mr Joseph Ndawula
Uganda Children's Illustrators and Writers AssociationP.O. Box 31631Clock Tower, Kampalawww.africaonlineug.com/ucwia
Yes often 3 0
Ukraine Ms Tatjana SchukinaMs Tatjana Pravda
Dnipropetrovsk Centralized System of Children's LibrariesVorontsov Ave., 3 UA-49023 [email protected]
No As often as necessary
20 4
United Kingdom
Ms Ann Lazim Ms Nikki Gamble
PO Box 20875, GB-London SE22 9WQ. [email protected] or [email protected]
No 6/yr 200+ 15
United States
Ms Joan AtkinsonMs Linda PavonettiMs Alida von Krogh Cutts
USBBY800 Barksdale Road, P.O. Box 8139Newark, DE [email protected]
1 part-time 3/yr 400 4
Uruguay Ms Susana SternMs Adriana Mora
Ellauri, Montevideo CP [email protected]@gmail.com
No 12/yr 50 0
Venezuela Ms Maria Beatriz MedinaMs Olga Garcia Larralde
Banco del Libro.Av. Luis Roche, Edif. Banco del LibroAltamira Sur 1060, [email protected]@bancodellibro.org.ve www.bancodellibro.org.ve
No regular 0 1 (Banco del Libro)
FUNDING
BUDGETSNot all of the NS that completed and returned their BR answered the question about their annual budget. Those that did answer can be classified into 4 categories:
1) No budget: Albania, Bolivia, Czech Republic, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Uruguay, United Kingdom
2) Below $1,000: Nepal3) From $1,000 to $5,000: Australia (steady), Ecuador, Estonia (increased),
Hungary, New Zealand, Palestine, Peru (decreased), Romania, Rwanda, Turkey, Ukraine
4) From $5,000 to $10,000: Lebanon, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Uganda (increased)
5) From $10,000 to $40,000: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus (not fixed and decreased), Denmark, Egypt (increased), Finland, Greece (decreased), Iceland, India (increased), Iran, Lithuania (increased), Moldova (decreased), South Africa (increased), Sweden, Thailand (increased), United States (increases slightly each year).
6) Over $40 000: Brazil ($107,200, increased), Colombia, Germany ($1,000,000), Japan ($400,000 decreased), Latvia ($66,000 increased), Mexico ($714,950 increased by 78.7%), Norway, Russia (increased), Slovak Republic, Switzerland ($60,000), Venezuela ($740,000)
Almost half of the NS included in this summary have budgets that allow them to carry out their activities and many of the sections declared that their budgets are increasing. The main reason for the variable or non-fixed budgets is that the section is part of another institution, and the NS has to apply for grants or look for partnerships for their activities. Fundraising is not always successful in many countries.
SUPPORT GIVEN SPECIFICALLY FOR IBBY DUES In most NS, dues are considered part of the overall NS budget. However, in some cases, contributions are made directly for this purpose. What is worth noting is that through the twinning programme, some NS help others financially: The Dutch Section has regularly helped Uruguay with dues, and USBBY has paid membership dues for the IBBY sections in Lebanon and Palestine in 2007 and 2008, IBBY Haiti in 2008, and has helped IBBY South Africa by paying part of their dues in 2007 and 2008.
MEMBERSHIP FEESMany NS count on membership fees as the most reliable and regular source of income for their work although in most cases the revenues from fees are quite minor compared to their outgoings. In many sections, there are different categories of membership fee. In IBBY Canada, for example, ‘patrons’ who are effectively sponsors pay the highest member fee. The same is true for the United States.
Indonesian IBBY only has membership fees for their individual members. In general, membership fees are not high. For some Sections, such as IBBY South Africa, membership fees constitute the large part of budget (90%) or the totality of the budget as in the case of IBBY Turkey.
GOVERNMENT GRANTSNearly half of the NS receive grants from their government. However, the majority receive them in an irregular way, and have to apply for them each time and usually for specific projects. There are a few NS, such as Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and Denmark that get a large part, if not the totality, of their budget from the government.Czech IBBY receives funds regularly from their Ministry of Culture for the section's Golden Ribbon annual competition.IBBY Latvia receives special grants from the Ministry of Culture and the State Culture Capital Foundation (SCCF) to cover expenses incurred in connection with their international activities. They also receive support from some foreign embassies in Latvia, such as the embassies of Sweden, USA, as well as the British Council for specific activities.Dutch IBBY also gets support from some embassies abroad.
GRANTS BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONSSome NS benefit from grants from organizations and institutions in the private and public sector. These contributions are often project-based. For most of the NS, these grants are minor and irregular, and often for a specific purpose or project. IBBY Croatia gets some sponsorship from editors, not as financial support but printing materials and donating prizes for their quizzes. IBBY Argentina gets financial support from some publishing houses and companies in exchange for services, including conducting reading promotion activities for children and/or teachers and librarians.
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS AND DONORSGenerally speaking, donations from external individual sponsors are not the main source of income for the NS. Occasionally, often as a result of a fundraising campaign or for a specific or regular project, individual donations are received, but they rarely account for a significant part of the budget. However, for the NS of Iran, this represents an important source of income, accounting for 82% of its annual budget. The Dutch NS benefits from the inheritance of author Jenny Smelik by using the fund to administer an award that bears her name. KBBY currently receives financial support from Nami Island Inc. This amount accounts for 100% of their budget. IBBY Ukraine gets 100% of its budget from individual sponsors. IBBY New Zealand gets 50% of its budget from five organizations, four of which are publishing houses. IBBY Serbia receives financial support from two publishing houses and accounts for 75% of its annual budget.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM OTHER NSThe Latvian and Lithuanian Sections of IBBY have covered the accommodation and many other costs for Estonian participants in meetings and conferences organized by their sections. IBBY Cuba receives support for their annual dues and regional conferences from IBBY Canada.
PUBLICATIONSAlthough many of the NS produce newsletters, bulletins, journals and other publications, these do not necessarily generate funds.
OTHER SOURCES OF INCOMEOne thing that is more or less consistent throughout the NS reports is what generates money when the section is not totally funded from the government or another institution. A main strategy is the sale of projects and services, all of them similar in nature: seminars, workshops, conferences, training of librarians, teachers and/or parents, assessment of libraries and development of reading-related projects. There are also other means, which have been successful.
IBBY Canada raises funds for IBBY Cuba through the Hot Hot Cuba event, which comprises an evening of live music, salsa dancing and a cash bar. Revenue is mainly generated through the ticket sales, and an auction of portrait painted by children’s book illustrators.
Czech IBBY has received posters donated by a graphic design studio for their Golden Ribbon competition.
JBBY organizes a travelling exhibtion of the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition at four or five museums in Japan every year. This income generates more than half of their annual budget.
IBBY Mexico (A Leer) runs successful Fundraising campaigns: Mis lecturas dibujadas (2006 and 2007) and Por si las moscas (2007). Artwork made by Mexican personaities and artists were autioned. These events raised not only funds, but also awareness of IBBY Mexcio's work by the consequent media coverage.
IBBY Norway gets almost 90% of annual budget from their Books of the Year lectures.
IBBY UK put any profit they get from their annual conference into the the budget. They also raise funds from the sale of Christmas cards designed by illustrators.
TABLE 2: FUNDING
National Section
Support for IBBY dues specifically
Member-ship fees
Government support
Grants by other Organizations and Institutions
Individual Sponsors and donors, including corporative sponsors and donors
Income through Publications (% of budget)
Other
Albania No No No No No Yes (unspecified)
Argentina Yes: occasional support from publishing houses
No Yes: from publishing houses or companies in exchange for services
No
Australia Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) pays the dues
No No No No No Biennial award generates funds through applications (100% of the budget)
Austria No Yes: Austrian Ministry of Education,Division of Arts
No No -
Belgium Yes Yes.Umbrella organization, Stichting Lezen receives grants from Ministry of Culture and the Flemish Literature Fund
-
Bolivia No Yes No Yes: Global Fund for Children
Yes: Sister Library of North Carolina, USA
Yes (2%) Annual IBBY dinner, reading in buses and reading train campaign, workshops and courses
Brazil No Yes No No Yes: the most important children’s literature publishers are supporting members.
No Projects such as Reading Promotion.Salao FNLIJ do Livro para Criancas e Jovens (a Book Festival) and the Project Bibliotecas Comunitárias Ler é Preciso in collaboration with Instituto Ecofuturo
Canada No Yes Grant in 2007 from the Canada Council for the Arts for the international award submissions
No Yes (22% of annual budget)
Yes (unspecified)
Sale of Cleaver Picture Book Award note cards; Hot, Hot Cuba fundraiser
Colombia No No Yes: project-based support; free office in government building
Yes: founding members contribute 33% of budget
Corporative sponsors for specific programmes
Yes (1%) Offering services (66 % of annual budget)
Croatia No No Yes: Zagreb City Government, Ministry of Culture (by annual application)
No No Proceedings of conferences (5%)
Cyprus No Yes Yes: Ministry of Education and Culture (70% of budget)
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Centre sponsored Children’s Literature Contest
No Yes: Anemi (12%)
Czech Republic
No Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture for annual prize
Yes: Municipal Government of Liberec
Yes: the publishing houses Albatros and Euromedia Group and a private donor
No
Denmark No Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture
Irregularly Yes (minor) Yes, by selling advertising space in their journal (unspecified)
Ecuador No Yes Yes: Quito City Government
Yes: National Institute of Childhood
No Yes (unspecified)
Reading Marathon
and Families; UNICEF
Egypt From Integrated Care Society, umbrella organization
No Yes Yes No No Co-funding specific projects with interested partners, or sometimes projects solely funded by partners
Estonia Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (ECLC) and Ministry of Culture
Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture;Estonia Cultural Endowment
Yes: ECLC Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (ECLC)
Yes (minor) No
Finland Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (unspecified)
Grants for various projects
France No No Supported by National Library of France
No No No
Germany The Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Yes4% of budget
Yes70% of budgetGerman Ministry of Foreign Affairs
No Yes5% of budget
Yes(20%)
Greece Yes: Ministry of Culture (irregular)
Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture, (irregular)
No Yes: publishers and individual sponsors for national awards
Yes (10%)
No
Hungary Yes Yes No No No No
(annual application)
Iceland No Yes Yes (irregular) No No Yes, by selling advertising space in their journal (8%)
No
India No Yes No No No No Fundraising through and for special events
Indonesia No Yes: individual members only
No No Yes Yes(25%)
Sponsors for seminars, workshops and festivals
Iran No Yes No No Yes: 82% of budget
Yes, royalties from the Encyclopaedia for Young People and CBC Quarterly Bulletin (15%)
Sponsors for Encyclopaedia
Ireland No Yes Yes: Arts council -Japan No Yes No Yes (irregular) Yes, minor No ExhibitionsRepublic of Korea
No No No No Yes: Nami Island Inc.
No
Latvia No Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture and State Culture Capital Foundation (SCCF)
Yes: Latvian National Library
Yes: publishers and banks for special projects.
- Support from foreign embassies for specific activities
Lebanon Yes: from USBBY
Yes No Grant from Amideast Yes No
Lithuania Yes: Ministry of Culture
Yes Yes: 73% of the budget
No Yes: from private donors (7%)
Yes (17%) Sponsorship of activities
Malaysia No Yes No No Yes No Book fairs Mexico No No Contracted projects Sponsored projects Yes Yes (2%) Very successful
fundraising campaigns
Moldova No Yes: 35% of budget
Yes: 37% of budget (irregular)
No. Yes: 28% of budget
No Selling advertising space in programme of book fair.
Mongolia No. Board members
No. No. Yes No Strategic partnerships for specific activities
Nepal No Yes(nominal)
Yes No No No
Netherlands
Yes Yes: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (annual application)
Yes Yes: interest of from the Jenny Smelik fund ; Publishers support for special projects
Yes (unspecified)
New Zealand
Yes: Storylines No No Yes: New Zealand Book Council
Yes: four publishing houses
Yes: information dossiers about famous children’s authors
Annual original artwork raffle and sales of Kids’ Lit Quiz TM
Norway No Yes Yes: from Ministry of Culture
Yes: form publishers
No “Books of the year” lectures
Palestine Yes: from USBBY
Yes No No Yes: from Diakonia
No
Peru No No No No No Yes (20%) Income from working projects for other welfare
Educational Organizations.
Poland No Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture
Yes: Book Institute Yes No Most of publishers share cost of Honour List by offering their books and covering a fee or postage.
Romania No Yes No No No NoRussia No Yes Moscow: no
St. Petersburg: yes No No No
Rwanda Yes: Bücher für Kinder in Ruanda
Yes No No Yes No
Serbia No Yes Yes No Yes: from two publishing houses75%
No
Slovakia BIBIANA, umbrella organization
Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture
Yes: regularly co-organizers; others less regular, project-based
No No
Slovenia No Yes Yes: Ministry of Culture
No No No
South Africa
USBBY supports part of the dues
Yes: 90% No No Yes: occasionally, 10%
No
Sweden No Yes Yes: Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, 80%
Yes: Swedish Institute for Children’s Books gives grants for different activities
Yes: publishing houses contribute books for the Gulliver Award
No
Switzerland
No Yes Yes: Federal and local government
No Yes: minor, irregular
Yes (unspecified)
Teacher training, courses, lectures, seminars, services (minor)
Thailand No No: only donations for journal and other projects
No Yes Yes: 20% Yes (20% of production costs of journal)
Donation boxes at book fairs, bookshops and public places
Turkey No Yes: 100% of budget
No No Yes (irregular) No
Uganda No Yes No No Yes Yes (unspecified)
Ukraine No No No No Yes: 100% of the budget
No
United Kingdom
No Yes No No No No Profit from annual conference, sale of Christmas cards
United States
No Yes No No Yes No Interest from investments
Uruguay Yes: support from Dutch IBBY
Yes No No No No
Venezuela No Payment for specific projects
No Payment for specific projects and services offered to different organizations
No Yes (0.5%)
ACTIVITIES OF THE NS
Almost all of the NS organize national, regional or international meetings and conferences as part of their activities. A registration fee is normally charged to cover expenses, however, the emphasis of these events is not on the money they produce, but on the discussion of important issues related to the field. It is often the main activity of the NS.
Courses and seminars are also important activities for the NS. Addressed to writers, illustrators, teachers, librarians, parents, as well as the general public, these courses vary in their complexity and duration. In countries where there is no academic programme for Children’s Literature, these courses and seminars are the only instance where interested people can discuss related matters.
Exhibitions and attendance of local book fairs are also quite frequent. For example, JBBY regularly exhibits the IBBY Honour List and the Andersen Award winners’ books. IBBY Albania has organized exhibitions with drawings and paintings made by children, with topics concerning the subjects of their favourite books, children’s rights or free topics.
Prizes and contests are regularly organized. For instance, German IBBY organizes and presents its annual award: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) and IBBY Lithuania administers 9 awards for authors, illustrators, translators and critics.
A few NS run libraries or bookstores. These sections include the IBBY Albania, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Korea, Mexico, Nepal, and Venezuela.
The overall picture is that, in spite of a pervasive lack of money, the great majority of the NS develop their activities, look for funding and work hard to maintain their status as important organizations in the field of children’s books. There is also a sense of pride in the reports and some NS have achieved important landmarks.
COMMUNICATION
The majority of the NS have websites or state their intention to develop one, and most have newsletters or magazines through which they communicate with their members and the interested public.
Quite a few of the reporting NS publish book selections, such as IBBY Austria, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States and Venezuela. IBBY Mexico also publishes books.
Working with national media to promote activities is done by most of the NS.
DIFFERENT SECTIONS’ HIGHLIGHTS
The following are examples of the extent of the National Sections highlights that were reported as very successful activities in addition to their regular meetings, conferences, courses, seminars, exhibitions, fairs, awards and contests. For the full range of activities, go to the submitted report that can be downloaded from the Internet by clicking on the list of countries on page five of this summary.
Albania: In 2007 the section organized an interesting project with the students of six schools of the Tirana suburbs that included various activities: meetings with writers; literature competitions for children; drawing and paintings competitions; establishing theatre groups in each school. The section also established a children and youth theatre group in the libraries, and held an accompanying exhibition of children’s drawings and paintings. A book was later published with the best stories and the children's own illustrations were put on the cover. The book was distributed for free in all the six schools.
Argentina:Annual training courses in reading promotion strategies are an important source of income. The section also organizes creative writing and illustration workshops for primary school children in the inner city within the framework of the Libros del Cordel [Hanging-Rope Books] joint programme with Compinches [Buddies] children’s magazine.
Austria: ALIDA: a large database of information about Austrian children’s book authors, illustrators and translators and their work from 1945 onwards. (www,alida.at)EDM-Reporter: Electronic Digital Media-Reporter, a Comenius 3 Network funded by the Socrates Educational Programme of the EU, which is active in the field of multicultural education aiming to promote the educational use of ICT in this field.
Bolivia:The section organized a large successful campaign Cochabamba Read in the city with support from the IRA.
Brazil:The section organized a three-day project for the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional called Christmas and Reading at the National Library. FNLIJ also organized a Library and a Reading Space to hold performances by illustrators and reading.
Canada:The section organizes award ceremonies for its three national awards: Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award; Frances E. Russell Award; and the Claude Aubry Award. The ceremonies take place in the city of the winner and are usually connected to another related event in order to maximize exposure to the
children’s book community. Word on the Street (WOTS) is an annual literary street festival, free and open to the public and takes place in five cities across the country.
Colombia:1. Reading in Family: IBBY Colombia continues to work on this programme, which invites parents to read with their children from the time they are born. To date they distributed more than 3,000 reading kits. The section has also created two other projects in connection with the main programme. Timely Time to Read where collections of books, purchased by SDIS, a public institution in Bogotá, are distributed to children in kindergartens from low-income families. The other new project is The Reading Party, developed with the ICBF, governmental organization, which reaches 3,800 children between 0 and 6 years, in 19 care centres. In both projects there is a major element of further training.2. Palabrario: created in September 2006, is a project addressed to teachers, parents and children in the first three grades of elementary education to promote reading and writing. The section works in alliance with two other foundations (Corona and Genesis), and the Universidad the Antioquia. Between 2006 and 2008 17,500 students, 454 teachers, and 24 educative centres in five towns benefited from the project.3. Bibloestaciones (Book-stations): these six very small public libraries opened to the public in March 2008 and have become very popular among the users of the massive public system of transport of the Colombia’s capital and have 8,000 active users.4. Assessment Committees: Fundalectura leads three interdisciplinary and inter-institutional assessment committees, assessing both fiction and non-fiction for young people. Around 65 people participate in these weekly committees; they read an average of 1,000 books per year.
Croatia:IBBY Croatia listed their most successful activities as their international conferences and publishing the proceedings afterwards, the Croatian Biennial of Illustration 2008 and their national reading promotion competitions for children.
Cyprus: In January each year IBBY Cyprus organizes a New Year meeting of members and friends. In March 2008, they organized a literary evening in connection with the presentation of four children’ s literature books that was honoured by the Cyprus Ministry of Education. In April 2008 the section organized a series of activities in Nicosia and Larnaka for ICBD, including two storytelling events for children by the well-known Greek storyteller Agni Sroumpouli.
Egypt:2007-2008 IBBY Egypt continued to develop their project Read to your child, which is now part of the Reading for all national campaign.
Greece:Greek IBBY annually celebrates ICBD with meetings with authors, an official celebration and cooperation with national media. The books submitted for Greek IBBY's awards are donated to remote libraries, schools and communities in non-privileged areas, hospitals, and local libraries that suffered from fires of 2007.
Iceland:In 2007 IBBY Iceland awarded the first Sögusteinn children's book prize and published a calendar depicting books by the winner (Sigrún Eldjárn) that was distributed to all second grade classrooms in Iceland.
India:The section's storytelling activities at the AWIC children’s libraries and in schools, as well as the programmes organised for special and disadvantaged children are constantly well received.
Indonesia:The section organized their first Asian Storytelling Festival.
Iran:The section specified four successful activities: the Iranian Encyclopaedia for Young People (IEYP); the publication of CBC’s annual bibliography in a critical form; the establishment of libraries in deprived areas; and, creative reading workshops aimed at volunteers working with working and street children.
Ireland: As part of the 10th birthday activities IBBY Ireland celebrated at the Dublin City Hall with guest speaker Martin Waddell and began its twining activity with the new IBBY section in Zimbabwe.
Korea: Each year the section organizes the Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival. The section also organizes seminars, storytelling events and different workshops.
Latvia:Latvian IBBY helps to organize the annual national reading promotion programme "Children’s Jury", in co-operation with the Children’s Literature Centre of the National Library of Latvia. In 2006 Latvian IBBY developed the White Wolf’s Books programme, which includes many activities and awards for children's literature. The programme is executed in co-operation with the Children’s Literature Centre of the National Library, the State Culture Capital Foundation, banks and other sponsors.
Lebanon:
The section's activities include library distribution to needy schools; a successful bibliotherapy project on the management behaviour of traumatized children of war; work that brings storybooks into the Civic Education course offered on the secondary level; organizing a national week for the promotion of reading; and the organization of a reading competition in elementary schools.
Lithuania:In June 2007 the section organized a very successful conference / seminar and exhibition on Swiss children’s literature, dedicated to the anniversary of Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi.
Malaysia:The section organized the Asia Pacific Conference on Children Book Publishing: 1-3 July 2008, as part of the IBBY-Yamada programme. Other successful activities include: the celebration of ICBD co-organized by Selangor State Library, and on a federal level, celebrated ICBD in conjunction with the KL International Book Fair 2008 with different activities.
Mexico: Four more Bunkos were opened during the reporting period, two of them in rural, marginalized municipalities in the states of Zacatecas and Chiapas. The other two were opened in Mexico City, one in a rehabilitation centre for under-age offenders and the last in one of IBBY Mexico facilities. In addition twelve Bunkos were placed inside school shelters that support the local Indian population. The reading promotion project Nostotros entre libros (Us among books) uses volunteer participation. Starting the semester 2008-2009 IBBY Mexico has 750 volunteers, who will visit 15,000 children. This growth is possible since the Ministry of Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública) is supporting the project in order to run a pilot project, depending on the results this project could turn into a nationwide programme for the reading promotion policies established by the government.
Moldova:In 2008 the My Gift to My Library campaign asked children and adults to donate new books to local public libraries. The section's project To Culture and Civilization through Reading covers a number of activities, such as meetings with writers, illustrators, translators, publishers in different cities and villages in Moldova; book donations to public and school libraries; opening of bookstores; mini book fairs in different cities of Moldova.
Mongolia:The section annually celebrates the birthday of H.C. Andersen with a play written for the children and competitions and in 2008 they made a CD of the stories and distributed it to the children. The section also celebrated the 100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren. Two IBBY-Yamada workshops were successfully organized. A special tour of rock art and writing stones was organized in Western Mongolia for children, under the title: Stone page books from ancient time.
Nepal:Under the IBBY Yamada Fund, IBBY Nepal organized a Mobile Library Programme in two districts of Nepal. The section also distributed books to village school libraries with the help of the Books for All programme.
Netherlands:The section runs meetings, symposiums, workshops and conferences throughout the year. It also was co-organizer of the Lingen conference with participants from the Netherlands, Fryslân, Belgium and Germany. Dutch IBBY also supported international activities including financially supporting several small local school libraries in Brazil and in 2008 they donated wordless picture books to a children’s home in India.
Palestine: As part of the IBBY Children in Crisis Fund, PBBY established two children’s libraries in Gaza where they are also training librarians in the use of bibliotherapy.
Peru:The section undertook two projects in the Andes region and ran a Children in Crisis project following a large earthquake in the area.
Russia:The section successfully cooperates with some children’s libraries, and jointly organizes meetings with different specialists, local exhibitions, and book presentations. They are also active in cooperation with the Russian Centres of Science and Culture of Russian Embassies outside the country. Participation in the St. Petersburg International Book Salon is very successful for the section, as is the ICBD celebration and the Week of Children's Books.
Slovakia:For the past 20 years IBBY Slovakia has been very successful in their project Days of Children’s Books as part of ICBD activities. The programme includes meetings with writers and illustrators in schools and libraries, professional seminars for teachers and librarians. Each year the project takes place in a different region of Slovakia.
South Africa: The section holds seasonal BookBashes each year, with different themes. They have included successful topics such as: presentations by publishers of their newest and forthcoming works; presentations by self-publishers and small independent publishers; conversations and extended interviews with authors and illustrators.
Switzerland:
Swiss IBBY has been successful with their reading promotion projects such as Schweizerische Erzählnacht (Swiss story-telling night), Bücherraupe (Book caterpillar), Lesebazillus (The reading bug), Ton ab, Buch auf (Switch off, book out), Family literacy, and Leseanimation für den Vorschulbereich (Reading animation for pre-schoolers).
Thailand: The Thai Bookstart project is very successful. With the support of PUBAT the section runs the Dream and Love for Children project. They take 300-400 children from orphanages and other facilities to book fairs 3 times a year, and give them each a sum (300 Baht approx. CHF 10) to buy any book they choose. The publishers sell their books at reduced prices for this programme. The Siam Cement Foundation supports ThaiBBY in its programme Tales in the Garden, which is an open-air library with activities for families in the public gardens during the cool and dry season.
Ukraine: Successful activities include making a directory of child's writers of a few regions of Ukraine; publishing the book Mitten of Ukrainian folk tales, organizing meetings with young poets and writers in the libraries of Ukraine; publishing works of young authors in various Ukrainian magazines; and organizing holidays for disabled children.
United States:In 2007-2008 USBBY with CBC (Children's Book Council), published their Outstanding International Booklist, which helps to build a bridge between the US and the rest of the world by introducing American readers to outstanding international artists and writers to help children to see the world from other points of view.
Uruguay: In 2006 IBBY Uruguay organized a joint project with UNICEF to provide training courses across the country for teachers in schools that are in critical condition. During 2007-2008 IBBY Uruguay participated in the Ministry of Culture and Education’s National Reading Plan in an advisory capacity. The plan sends members of IBBY Uruguay to different small libraries and other reading spaces to train people who work with children and other users. The IBBY-Yamada project Animarse a leer with additional support from the Dutch IBBY Section, was successful in training teachers how to promote reading among school children in the marginalized neighbourhoods of Montevideo.
Venezuela:The section has many successful regular activities, as well as numerous projects running throughout the year.
TABLE 3: NATIONAL SECTIONS’ ACTIVITIES
National Section
Publications and website
Organization of meetings and conferences
Organization of seminars, courses and workshops
Exhibitions and fairs Awards, prizes and contests
Cooperation with government, private and/or public orgs.
Other
Albania The Little Mermaid (Magazine);Invite the media for special events
No No Organized exhibitions with drawings and paintings made by children, with topics concerning the subjects of their favourite books, children’s rights or free topics.
Yes
Argentina Close contact with the media and provides them with book reviews, interviews and information about IBBY activities both at the local and international level.
No Yes Participate in the Buenos Aires International Book Fair and the Children’s Book Fair.
AlijA Outstanding Books of the Year Award
Yes Organizes reading promotion activities through creative writing and illustration workshops for primary schools
Australia www.alia.org.au/~ibby/index.html
No No No Ena Noel Award Yes No
Austria 1000 und 1 Buch, professional quarterly.Ausgelesen: web page with reviews.www.jugendliteratur.netwww.1001buch.at
Yes Yes Literature for Young Readers: week of events, book exhibition. Co-organizes Reading in the Park
Dixi Kinderliteraturpreis;Romulus Candea Prize
Yes ALIDA:– www.alida.atEDM-Reporter: Electronic digital media-Reporter.
Belgium Newsletter: 3/yrwww.stichtinglezen.be
Yes Yes
Bolivia IBBY Bulletin in Spanish: 2/yrWork with media frequently for campaigns and different programmes
Yes Yes Yes. Annual contest of Oral Tales
Yes Receives support from “Sister Library ” in North Carolina. USA;OrganizesCochabamba Read in cooperation with IRA
Brazil Monthly newsletter.www.fnlij.org.brWork with media for main projects
Yes Yes Organized 8th Salão FNLIJ do Livro para Crianças e Jovens in 2006
Large stand at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2007 and 2008
1) The Best Reading Incentive Programs for Children and Young People (based on the IBBY Asahi Reading Promotion Award)2) Concurso :Leia Comigo!” (Read with me)3) Concurso Curumim—about reading books written by indigenous writers4) Concurso Tamoios—texts written by indigenous writers
Yes.
Canada E-newsletter: 2/yrCatalogues: The IBBY Honour List Retrospective and Show and Tell/Montre
Yes No Organized Show and Tell/Montre et raconte travelling exhibit of Canadian picture books
Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver (Canadian Picture Book Award).Frances E. Russell
Yes Award ceremonies and Word on the Street (WOTS): annual literary
et racontewww.ibby-canada.org
Award.Claude Aubry Award
street festival
Colombia Documentation Centre bulletin.Nuevas hojas de lectura (New reading leafs, quartly)www.fundalectura.orgwww.nuevashojasdelectura.comwww.leerenfamilia.com ;
Yes Yes Yes Norma-Fundalectura Prize of Latin American Literature for the Children and Youngsters.Organizes a biennial contest for illustration.
Yes 1. Reading in the Family2. Palabrario3. National Plan for Reading and Libraries4. Bibloestaciones (Book-stations)5. Literary meetings6. Assessment Committees
Croatia Promote its activities through national media: journals and newspapers, radio and television.www.kgz.hr
Yes No Co-organized exhibitions and stands at Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2007, 2008;Co-organized The Second Croatian Biennial of Illustration
Co-organized quiz for promotion of reading 2007 and 2008
Yes, with institutions on national level.
Cyprus Annual magazine:Anemi;www.cybby.org;
Yes Yes Participated in the Annual Exhibition of Cypriot writers; organized an exhibition of children’s literature in Larnaka for ICBD.
4 annual contests with awards
Yes
Czech Republic
Newletter,Zlatá stuha (Golden Ribbon);www.ibby.cz
No No Yes“15 let soutěže Zlatá stuha” (15 years the Golden Ribbon Award)
Golden Ribbon Award
Yes
in cooperation with Svět knihy (Bookworld) in Prague in 2007
Denmark Klods Hans: quarterly magazine.www.ibby.dk
Yes No Nordic Children’s Exhibition
Klods Hans Award With government, on small scale; with organizations not in a regular way.
Ecuador Published proceedings of the Reading Marathon 2006, 2007; posters, brochures, and other illustrated materials for reading promotion,www.girandula.org
YesReading Marathon; an international congress in 2007
Yes Organizes children’s book fair during The Reading Marathon
No yes Participated in the Guayaquil Reading Marathon and in the Fete de Livre, organized by the Alliance Francaise.
Egypt Adwaa ala al-magles el-masry lkotob al atfaa (Lights on EBBY): yearly newsletter;www.ics.org.eg
Yes Yes Participated in Cairo International Children’s Book Fairand the Nami Island International Children Book Festival
The Suzanne Mubarak Awards
Yes Campaign Read to Your Child.
Estonia www.eltk.ee/ibby Work extensively with the national media through interviews, announcements and reports in newspapers, radio and TV
No No Co-organized Tallinn Illustrations Triennial Pildi jõud (The Power of Pictures)
YesTower of Babel Honour Diploma
Yes
Finland Virikkeitä, quarterly Yes Yes No The Anni Swan Yes
France Publishes La Revue des livres pour enfants and a special issue annually about French children’s Literature www.lajoieparleslivres.com
Yes Yes Hosted the Tour of Europe in 27 picture books travelling exhibition; stands at the Bologna Children's Book Fairs and Book Fair in Paris
No Partnership with many NGOs for children’s reading.
Germany Publishes two E-newsletters and the quarterly journal JuLit.Various other publications and topical book catalogues;www.jugendliteratur.org ;
Yes Stands at Leipzig Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair
Organizes and Presents annual award: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award).
Yes, on large scale with government and organizations.
Provides guidance information and selection and evaluation aids for children's and youth literature.
Greece Annual bulletin.Seminar papers regularly published in separate volumes;www.greekibby.gr;
Yes Yes Exhibition of IBBY ICBD posters in Vytina
Annual awards to children’s books, illustrations, children’s literature personalities, teachers, children’s libraries and reading programmes.
Yes, with other book organizations.
Nominate for ALMA 2007, 2008. Donate books
Hungary Publishes Hungary – An Open book of contemporary Hungarian literature for children and young people; and
Yes No Joint stand at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, International Book Festival Budapest
Children's Book of the Year contest and prize
Yes
Children’s books from Hungary www.ibby.hu
Iceland Newsletter (in the form of magazine)www.ibby.is
Yes No No 3 annual awards given for outstanding contributions to the development of children’s literature and culture in Iceland. Sögusteinn prize
No Calendar made from books of the winner of the first Sögusteinn prize
India Quarterly journal Writer and Illustratorwww.awic.in
Yes Yes Yes Annual Library Award;AWIC Honours 2007;Competitions for writers and illustrators
Yes Story-telling activities to interact with children
Indonesia Close cooperation with media
Yes Yes Yes, occasionally Various contests Yes Asian Storytelling Festival.
Iran Monthly Newsletter;Quarterly Bulletin; Proceedings of major events: Bozorgdashte Abbas Yamini Sharif www.cbc.ir
No Yes Yes Awards diplomas to authors, illustrators, translators, publishers and personalities.Organized a contest of illustration based on poems.
Yes, collaborates with NGOs
1. Iranian Encyclopaedia for Young People (IEYP);2. The publication of CBC’s annual bibliography in a critical form;3. Establishment of libraries in deprived areas;4. Creative
reading workshops aimed at facilitators of working and street children.
Ireland E-newsletters 6/yrwww.ibbyireland.ie
Yes Yes
Japan JBBY newsletter (several times a year); Annual Bulletin of JBBY; Monthly email magazine;’Japanese edition of IBBY Honour List catalogue.www.jbby.org
No Yes HCA Award and IBBY HL Books Exhibition; Bologna Illustrators Exhibition; Exhibition of Outstanding Books for Disabilities
Yes.1st JBBY Award in 2007
Yes
Republic of Korea
www.kbby.org Yes Yes Annual Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival; Participated in BIB'06; NOMA Concours;BIB Korea 2007 Illustration Exhibition (2008)
Picture book contest during the Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival;Supported three Korea Awards for Hans Christian Andersen;Two Scene of Reading Photography Contests
Yes, with public organizations
Annual festival with a variety of seminars; storytelling events and workshops with experts from different countries.
Latvia Newsletterwww.lnb.lv
Yes Yes Participation in international book fairs
Yes:Janis Baltvilks’ Prize for children’s
YesWide range of government
Co-organized Programme Children’s Jury
literature;Broad Outlook competition for young readers; Creative competition for children Friends fairy-tales
department and public organizations
and the programme White Wolf’s Books
Lebanon Frequent media appearances on issues related to books or reading.
Introduces storybooks to Civic Education for secondary level students.Reading competitions in elementary schools.
Yes
Lithuania Rubinaitis: quarterly magazin;http://rubinaitis.lnb.lt
Yes Yes Yes: co-organized exhibitions.
Administers 9 awards for authors, illustrators, translators and critics.Organizes Contests for schoolchildren of writings about books
Yes Swiss Authors' exhibition
Malaysia Annual newsletterwww.mbby.org
Yes Yes Selangor State Book Festival 2006, 2007
Anugerah Buku Bitara MBBY (MBBY Honour List Award)
Consulted by the Ministry of Education about children’s books
MBBY Illustrators: Mini ExhibitionAsia Pacific Conference on Children Book Publishing, 2008
Mexico Recommended book guide for children and young people
No Courses and workshops
Represented at the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara;Presence at the Feria
Yes Bunkos (community library); Noscotros entre
Favoritos brochure.www.ibbymexico.org.mx/
Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil (FILIJ),
libros (Us among books)
Moldova Works with different TV and radio companies, with newspapers and magazines for children and adolescents.
Yes No International Children’s Book Fair in Chisinau 2007 and 2008;6 mini book fairs in different cities; co-hosted the exhibition “Astrid Lindgren and children’s rights”.
11 prizes at International Children’s Book Fair in Chisinau 2007 and 2008;2007 - “What Book I Would Like to Write” National Writing Contest for children
Yes.
Mongolia Work with newspapers and radio to promote activities and work.
No Yes No Yes, “Wise reader” contest among children at primary schools.
Cooperation with NGOs and organizations
Supported the mobile library of Dashdondog Jamba,
Nepal Quarterly Newsletter; A journal: Bal-Sahitya (Children's Literature).www.neschil.org.np
YesNational meetings and conferences
Yes Yes, occasionally Three prizes for the best; contest of poems, essays and stories among the students
Yes
Netherlands Newsletter 2/yr;Literatuur zonder Leeftijd (Literature without age) 3/yearhttp://duijx.net/ibby/
Yes Yes The Jenny Smelik IBBY Prize: biennial
Answering queries from individuals and organizations.
New Zealand
IBBY news in the quarterly Storylines newsletter.www.storylines.org.nz
No No No Collaboration with institutions
Norway Barnebokforum (Children’s book forum) 3/yr.
Yes Yes No The biennial Askeladden (Le Cendrier) Award.
Yes
www.ibby.no Palestine Two bibliographical
guides on Palestinian children’s books
Yes Yes No No Yes Established two children’s libraries with the support of IBBY Children in Crisis Fund
Peru Published manuals No Always trains librarians and reading promoter for each project
Participates in different fairs.
No Cooperation with APLIJ (Asociación Peruana de Literatura Infantil).
IBBY Children in Crisis Project
Poland Quarterly reportwww.ibby.pl
Yes Book of the Year;Polish IBBY Awards; BIB illustrations 2007.
Annual Book of the Year prize;Medal for the Outstanding Lifetime Achievements.
Collaboration with NGO
Cooperation with Book Institute in their action; discussion panels at Education XXI Book Fair
Romania Monthly newsletter within the publications of the Union of Publishers from Romania.The school’s universe and The universe starwww.uer.ro
Yes No Yes Organized National competition The Joy of Reading
Russia Publishes information in the magazine Piterbook.www.rbby.ruwww.pushkinlib.spb.ru
Yes Yes Exhibitions of books by the 2006 and 2008 HCA Award Nominees;Exhibition of Russian children’s book illustrations in Moscow, Teheran and Geneva.Exhibition of 2006 IBBY Honour List; Arts Council of Southeast Finland Book Exhibition; Swedish Institute exhibition devoted to the centenary of Astrid Lindgren
Organized the contests of Mikhalkov Open Competition of manuscripts for Russian language writers Best Literary work fro teenagers.Organized the children's contest A Wonderful Journey across Sweden devoted to the centenary of Astrid Lindgren.
Yes Cooperation with libraries and Russian Centres of Science and Culture in different foreign countries.
Rwanda Yes Yes Book exhibition in Butare
No Yes The project of the Rucksack-library Bana dusome; Reading celebration with children and parents each autumn
Serbia www.ibbyserbia.org Yes Yes Yes Golden Pen;Duško Radović
Yes:Collaboration with NGOs
Slovakia BIBIANA revue o umení pre deti a mládez, quarterly.www.bibiana.sk
Yes Yes Annual exhibition The Finest and Best Children’s Books during Days of Children’s Books and at the international book fair Bibliotheca
Cena Trojruza (Prize of the Three Roses);Cena L’udovíta Fullu (L’udovíta Fulla Prize); The Best and Most Beautiful Books of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in Slovakia.
Cooperates with a wide circle of experts from the field of artistic production for children and young people.
Days of Children’s Books, within ICBD celebrations.
Slovenia www.koz.si No No Exhibitions: IBBY, IBBY Awards and Slovenian Section of IBBY
Awards: co-organizesMy favourite book, chosen by children;Levstik Award (by Mladinska knjiga publishing house).Verernica, (national award for children’s literature).
Yes.
South Africa Newsletter: 6/yr www.ibbysa.org.za
No No Stand at the annual Cape Town Book Fair
Exclusive Books IBBY SA Award
Close ties and cooperation with other institution and NGOs.
Four seasonal BookBashes each year
Sweden IBBY bladet, quarterly newsletter.www.ibby.se
Yes Yes A stand at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 2007.
Peter Pan Prize Gulliver Award in cooperation with the Swedish institute and other organizations.
Close working relationship with the Swedish Institute for Children’s Books.
Switzerland Journals: Buch & Maus (German), Parole (French), Folletto (Italian).www.sikjm.chwww.kjm.ch
Yes Yes No Schweizerische Kinder- und Jugendmedienpreis
Reading promotion projects
Thailand ThaiBBY Journal, 3/yrwww.thaibby.in.thProduces the TV series Hold your child close, share love through books
Yes Yes Annual Book Festival for Young People, in cooperation with PUBAT.Participation in other book fairs.
ThaiBBY’s Book Award every two years
Yes, works closely with government,NGOs and national organizations and private companies.
Bookstart Pilot Project;Dream and Love for Children;Tales in Garden
Turkey www.cgyd.org No Yes Organizes exhibitions of children’s book illustrators.
The best book of the year
Collaboration with NGOs.
Uganda Yes Yes Participate in exhibitions and fairs
Yes: Prize for Children
Yes Children’s Reading Tents
Ukraine www.childlib.dp.ua Yes Yes Stand on the Allukrainian exhibition-fair Bukvitsa (2007);Exhibitions of posters
Competition of the young creators Book rainbow
Collaboration with other organizations
United Kingdom
Newsletter: IBBYLink 3/yr; proceedings of conferences
Yes No No No Collaboration with other NGOs
United States
USBBY Newsletter, 2/yr. www.usbby.org
Yes No 2006 IBBY HL books were exhibited at the 7th IBBY Regional Conference in Tucson, Arizona
Bridge to Understanding Award.
Yes 2007-2008 Outstanding International Booklist
Uruguay No No Yes Has organized the Annual National Children’s Book Fair since 2000
No Have relations with many institutions and individuals
Venezuela El Banco del libro recomienda, yearly publication; Boletín Enlaces con la crítica; Colección Parapara-clave; Colección Formemos Lectores.www.bancodellibro.org.ve
Yes Yes Exhibition for 45th anniversary of Banco del Libro, Exhibition of the “Best Books for Children and Young People”, “Comics as a meeting place” exhibition; Coordination of the Children’s Pavilion at book fairs and book exhibitions
The Best Books for Children and Young People
YesConsulted by all kinds of people
Lots of regular activities and projects
COOPERATION WITH IBBY: INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Most of the National Sections feel a pride in belonging to IBBY and participate in at least one of IBBY’s international activities.
CONGRESSES AND GENERAL ASSEMBLIES 2006 and 2008In the following table (4) all NS are included, not only those that returned their completed Biennial Report, to give a full picture of NS participation. The NS which submitted their reports are distinguished by an asterisk (*).
The 2006 IBBY General Assembly was held at the 30th IBBY Congress in Macau, China. 54 NS were represented: 45 directly and by 9 by proxy.
The 2008 IBBY General Assembly was held at the 31 IBBY Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. 59 NS were represented: 55 directly and 4 by proxy.
The biennial IBBY congress is the main international IBBY activity in which NS participate. However, the financial cost of participating in congresses remains the main reason for absences.
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK DAY (ICBD) Although not all the NS celebrate ICBD, there are many that hold a big event or a series of events around the 2nd of April. Among these IBBY Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungry, Iceland, India, Iran, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, New Zealand, Peru, Romania, Palestine, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela are very active. The sections of Slovakia, New Zealand and Thailand sponsored the ICBD 2006, 2007 and 2008 respectively.
The activities that are held often take place in schools and libraries, and include meetings with authors and illustrators; contests; readings and storytelling; exhibitions; conferences and lectures. Most of them use the message and poster from the sponsoring National Section.
IBBY Greece is always successful with the activities to mark the ICBD. On the NS’s request, the Ministry of Education sends a circular to all Greek schools recommending the celebration of ICBD with activities such as book-fairs, meet-the-author events, animations etc. Inquiries from schools and libraries are answered with information about what type of activities can be organized for this event. The ICBD materials are distributed to all the schools in Greece. Furthermore, through its members the NS participates in lectures to parents and students, as well as radio/TV programmes.
The NS of Lebanon, Moldova each organize a National Reading Week in April.
TABLE 4: COOPERATION WITH IBBY: INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
National Section
IBBY 30th Congress and General Assembly 2006, Macau
IBBY 31st Congress and General Assembly 2008, Copenhagen
Bookbird Corres-pondents
International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) Celebrations
Albania* No Yes Yes Mainly promoting activitiesArgentina* No Yes Yes Several activities (panel
session on Reading Promotion and Books for Children, poster exhibition, storytelling, reading sessions, art workshops, etc)
Australia* Yes Yes Yes Respond to local press requests for information, and organise delivery of ICBD posters to librarians and schools who request them
Austria* Yes Yes Yes Wide range of activities (author readings, exhibitions, reading promotion projects)
Belgium* No Yes No Announces ICBD via websiteBolivia* Yes Yes No Workshops and publicizes the
message and poster in bulletinBrazil* Yes Yes Yes Publicizes ICBD text and poster
in newsletter and proposes activities to be done on April 2nd.
Canada* Yes Yes Yes Executive members organized or facilitated International Children’s Book Day displays at libraries and bookstores in Edmonton and Halifax.
Chile Yes Yes YesChina Yes Yes NoColombia* Yes Yes Yes Publicizes message and posterCroatia* By proxy Yes No Conference about children’s
books and reading Cuba No By proxy YesCyprus* Yes Yes Yes Organizes a gathering during
which they commemorate the meaning of the ICBD
Czech Republic*
By proxy No Yes Member libraries organize activities, such as Noc s Andersenem (Night with Andersen)
Denmark* Yes Yes Yes NoEcuador* No By proxy No Participates in radio and
newspapers interviewsEgypt* Yes Yes Yes Wide range of activities:
discussions, meetings with writers and publishers in schools, libraries and cultural institutions, and sent message to the public through media.
Estonia* By proxy Yes Yes Sends the message and an electronic copy of the poster to 15 county libraries: They promote the ICBD, disseminate the information and organize events for children on the local level. Awards the Nukits prize for authors and illustrators
Finland* Yes Yes YesFrance* By proxy Yes YesGermany* Yes Yes YesGhana No No YesGreece* Yes Yes Yes Wide range of activities: official
celebration of ICBD, during which the NS annual prizes are awarded; meeting-the-author events and lots of others.
Guatemala (Joined in 2007)
Yes No
Haïti (Joined in 2007)
Yes No
Hungary* Yes No (due 2008 outstanding)
Yes Sends out copies of ICBD poster and message via Internet. Organize an exhibition.
Iceland* Yes Yes Yes Celebrates by giving new Sögusteinn children’s book prize. Give the message and poster to libraries and schools
India* Yes Yes Yes Lectures, storytellingIndonesia* Yes Yes No Children’s programmeIran* Yes Yes Yes Translated poster and
message; promoted its publication and use in the media; published 5000 bookmark calendars with ICBC poster and motto; published poster in the CBC Diary (500 copies); laminated collection of ICBD posters to facilitate lending and use; organized two exhibitions of paintings by working and street children in Tehran and Karaj and organized different activities at CBC’s children’s library.
Ireland* Yes Yes YesIsrael Yes No NoItaly No Yes NoJapan* Yes Yes Yes Japanese edition of ICBD
poster and message sent to JBBY members, children’s book shops and public libraries around the country.
Rep. of Korea*
Yes Yes No -
Latvia* By proxy Yes No Annual conferences in May about children’s books published in Latvia.
Lebanon* No Yes Yes Reading week in AprilLithuania* Yes Yes Yes Invited children and their
teachers as well as librarian to awards ceremony, small concert of children, professional performance. Small book fair. Press conference.
Malaysia* Yes Yes Yes Wide-range of activities. Designs its own poster and distributes to all schools and public libraries.
Mexico* Yes Yes Yes Organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the visit of ten children literature authors and illustrators to the schools where the programme Nosotros Entre Libros is being carried out.Disseminated information about ICBD and poster to public libraries and some bookstores.
Moldova* Yes Yes No Week of Children’s Book and Reading in April.
Mongolia* Yes Yes Yes Organized a special play for children. Published in 2008 series of stories by Andersen with CD.
Nepal* No Yes NoNetherlands* Yes Yes YesNew Zealand*
Yes Yes Yes Sponsored ICBD 2007.In 2007 launched an anthology of new stories from New Zealand and the Pacific. In 2008: distributed the Thai ICBD poster to all schools that requested it.
Norway* By proxy Yes YesPakistan Yes No NoPalestine* Yes Yes No National Reading Week in
April, with wide range of activities: reading, book reviews, storytelling, art, drama
Peru* No No No Posters exhibition in five schools and a special ceremony.
Poland* Yes By proxy YesPortugal No No YesRomania* No Yes No Organised The joy of reading,
debates and reading contests.
Russia* Yes Yes Yes Wide range of activities in Moscow and St Petersburg: organize the meetings for young readers with writers, poets, illustrators; prepare special books exhibition fro Children and Youth Creative Activity.
Rwanda* Yes Yes No Serbia* (Joined in
2007)No Yes A big celebration in National
Theatre, with the topic The Eternal Adventure of Reading.
Slovakia* Yes Yes Yes Sponsored ICBD 2006.Days of Children’s Book
Slovenia* Yes No Yes Exhibitions and children's events; reception for authors, illustrators and translators of children's literature.
South Africa*
By proxy Yes Yes
Spain Yes Yes NoSweden* Yes Yes YesSwitzerland* By proxy By proxy Yes Co-operation with Swiss
Buchlobby and Bibliomedia Thailand* Yes No Yes Produced own posters,
activities, exhibition. Sponsored ICBD 2008.
Turkey* Yes Yes YesUganda* Yes Yes No Reading Tent; Create their own
poster.Ukraine* No No Yes Meeting with writers;
Competitions of the best readers; Rewarding the best readers of libraries with special diplomas
United Kingdom*
Yes Yes No
United States*
Yes Yes Yes
Uruguay* By proxy Yes No Multiple activities are held all over the country covering education areas (primary and secondary schools), libraries, Cultural Centres and the communications media.
Venezuela* Yes Yes Yes Annual exhibition and award titled: The Best Books for Children within the month of April, specifically during the Book Day week. Designs own poster.
Zambia (Joined in 2008)
No No
Zimbabwe (Joined in 2008)
No No
COOPERATION WITH IBBY: AWARD and HONOUR NOMINATIONS
The following and table (5) give an overview of all National Section nominations for the IBBY awards or honours. The table includes those countries that did not submit their individual biennial reports, but nonetheless made nominations during the reporting period. The reporting NS are distinguished by an asterisk (*).
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AWARDS – AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORSThe Hans Christian Andersen Awards are presented biennially to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important contribution to children’s literature. This is the highest international distinction given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. They are acknowledged as the most widely known of IBBY’s activities. Between 1992 and 2008 Awards have been sponsored by the Nissan Motor Co., Japan.
In 2006, the winners were author Margaret Mahy from New Zealand, and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch from Germany. In 2008, they were author Jürg Schubiger from Switzerland, and illustrator Roberto Innocenti from Italy.
The main reason that many NS did not participate in the Andersen Awards during the reporting period is the high cost of preparing the nominations. The unlikelihood of winning the award, scarce translation of literary works into other languages, low level of literature, the relative immaturity of their country’s book industry, publication restrictions are some other reasons for their omission.
(Full details of the winners and nominees can be found in the special issues of Bookbird: volume 44, issue 4, 2006; and volume 46, issues 2 and 4, 2008, and at www.ibby.org)
IBBY HONOUR LISTThe IBBY Honour List is a selection of outstanding recently published books. The Honour List distinguishes authors, illustrators and translators whose work is particularly representative of their country and encourages their publication in other countries or languages.
In 2006, the IBBY Honour List included 164 titles (67 authors, 54 illustrators and 43 translators). In 2008, there were 69 authors, 54 illustrators and 46 translators nominated: a record number of 169 entries from 59 countries in 48 different languages!
(The HL catalogues are available from the IBBY Secretariat and on line at www.ibby.org)
IBBY-ASAHI READING PROMOTION AWARDThe IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award was established in 1986 during the IBBY Congress in Tokyo and is sponsored by the Japanese Asahi Shimbun newspaper company. Until 2004 the Award was given annually to a group or institution whose outstanding activities were judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion programmes for children and young people. Starting from the year 2006 the Award has been given biennially to two groups or institutions.
The nominations are submitted by the National Sections of IBBY and may include projects from any part of the world. The jury consists of members of the IBBY Executive Committee. The prize of US$ 10,000 and a diploma are presented to each of the winners at the biennial IBBY Congress
In 2006, the project Mongolian Children’s Mobile Library Project, nominated by IBBY Mongolia, and the project National Campaign ‘All of Poland Reads to Kids’, nominated by IBBY Poland were the two recipients of the Award.
In 2008, the project The Reading Promotion Project by Action with Lao Children, proposed by IBBY Japan, and Editions Bakame, Books for Children in Rwanda proposed by IBBY Switzerland, supported by IBBY Germany and IBBY Netherlands were given the Award.
(Detailed information about the award can be found on IBBY’s website: www.ibby.org)
OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIESIn 1985, IBBY established the Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People in Oslo. The Centre’s collection includes books and materials specifically created for young readers with special needs. These include donations and recommendations from National Sections, publishers and individuals. In 2002, the Centre moved and was established at the Haug Municipal Resource Centre for Young People with Disabilities, in Baerum/Oslo under the leadership of Heidi Cortner Boiesen.
The Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities Selections can be found in annotated catalogues, available from the IBBY Secretariat, and can be downloaded from the IBBY website: www.ibby.org.
TABLE 5: COOPERATION WITH IBBY: NOMINATIONS
National Sections
Hans Christian Andersen Award(winners in bold, finalist §)
A––Author nomineeI––Illustrator nominee
2006 2008
IBBY Honour List
(number of nominees)
2006 2008
IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award(winners in bold)
2006 and 2008
Books for Young People
with Disabilities Selection, 2007
(number of titles nominated)
Albania* - - 3 - -Argentina* Ema Wolf (A)
Isol Misenta (I) §Beatriz María Ana Ferro (A)Isol Misenta (I) §
3 3 -
Australia* - Jackie French (A)Shaun Tan (I)
2 - SLAV / KwaZulu Natal Support Project, South Africa (2008)
6
Austria* Adelheid Dahimene (A)Heide Stöllinger (I)
Lene Mayer-Skumanz (A)Linda Wolfsgruber (I)
3 3 -
Belgium* Pierre Coran (A)Klaas Verplancke (I) §
Anne ProvoostKitty Crowther
3 4 -
Bolivia* - - - 1 -Brazil Joel Rufino dos Santos
(A) Rui de Oliveira (I)
Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós (A) §Rui de Oliveira (I)
3 3 Mala de Leitura (Reading Suitcase) (2006)
Canada* Jean Little (A)Michele Lemieux (I)
Brian Doyle (A) §Pierre Pratt (I)
5 5 Pedro Molino Library in Chimaltenago, Guatamala, run by PROBIGUA (Proyeto Bibliotecas) (2006)Biblionef, Cape Town, South Africa (2008)
9
Chile - - 3 3 -
China Zhang Zhilu (A)Tao Wenjie (I)
Qin Wenjun (A) 4 3 -
Colombia* - - 3 3 -Croatia* Joza Horvat (A) Svjetlan Junakóvic (I) § 3 3 -Cuba - - - - -Cyprus* - Kika Pulcheriou (A) 2 2 -Czech Republic*
- Iva Procházková (A)Adolf Born (I) §
3 3 Bedrich Benes Buchlovan Library: The Night with Andersen (2008)
Hosted exhibition, 2006
Denmark* Josefine Ottesen (A) Lilian Brøgger (I) §
Bjarne Reuter (A)Lilian Brøgger (I)
3 3 Centro Chileno Nordica de Literatura Infantil, Chile (2006)
1
Ecuador* - - 2 2 -Egypt* - Fatima El Maadoul (A) 2 2 - 1Estonia* - - 3 3 -Finland* Hannele Huovi (A)
Virpi Talvitie (I)Irmelin Sandman Lilius (A)Virpi Talvitie (I)
4 6 - 1
France* Pierre-Marie Beaude (A)Gregoire Solotareff (I) §
Marie Desplechin (A)Claude Ponti (I)
3 3 -
Germany* Peter Härtling (A) §Wolf Erlbruch (I)
Peter Härtling (A)Jutta Bauer (I)
3 3 Supported Dutch nomination: Ein Bücherbus in Nicaragua (2006)Supported Swiss nomination: Editions Bakame, Books for Children in Rwanda (2008)
2
Ghana - - - - -Greece* Eugene Trivizas (A) §
Vasso Psaraki (I)Voula Mastori (A)Vassilis Papatsarouchas (I)
3 3 -
Guatemala - - - - -
Haïti - - - 3 -Hungary* - - 2 2 -Iceland* - Gudrun Helgadottir (A) 3 3 -India* - - 2 2 Alif Laila Book Bus Society,
Pakistan (2006)Society for All Round Development (SARD): Village Library Project, New Delhi (2008)
2
Indonesia* - - - 2 - Hosted exhibition, 2008
Iran* Mohammad Hadi Mohamadi (A)
- 3 3 Libraries for Cultural Development (CCDC) (2006)
3
Ireland* PJ Lynch (A) Kate Thompson (A)Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (I)
4 3 -
Israel - - 3 3 -Italy Angela Nanetti (A)
Emanuele Luzzati (I) Mino Milani (A)Roberto Innocenti (I)
3 3 - 4
Japan* Toshiko Kanzawa (A)Daihachi Ohta (I)
Shuntaro Tanikawa (A)Akiko Hayashi (I)
3 3 Early Readers Book Project for Aceh, Indonesia (2006)Action with Lao Children, Japan / Laos (2008)
3Hosted exhibition, 2007
Korea, Republic of*
- - 3 3 - 2
Latvia* - - 2 2 -Lebanon* - - 3 - -Lithuania* - Kestutis Kasparavicius (I) 3 2 -Malaysia* - - 1 2 -Mexico* - Mauricio Gómez Morín
(A)2 3 - 4
Moldova* - - 2 2 -
Mongolia* - - 1 - Mongolian Children’s Mobile Library Project (2006)
Nepal* - - - - Supported Indian nomination: Society for All Round Development (SARD): Village Library Project, New Delhi (2008)
Netherlands* Toon Tellegen (A) §Annemarie van Haeringen (I)
Guus Kuijer (A) §The Tjong-Khing (I)
4 4 Ein Bücherbus in Nicaragua (2006)Grupo Cerra Largo de Promoción de la Lectura, Uruguay (2008)Supported Swiss nomination: Editions Bakame, Books for Children in Rwanda (2008)
2
New Zealand* Margaret Mahy (A) - 3 3 Eastern and Central Reading Encouragement Network, New Zealand ('06)
Norway* Jon Ewo (A) §Svein Nyhus (I)
- 3 3 - 4
Pakistan - - - - -Palestine* - - 3 3 Tamer Institute for
Community Education: National Reading Campaign Ramallah (2008)
Peru* - - - 1 -Poland* - - 3 3 National Campaign ‘All of
Poland Reads to Kids’ (2006)
1
Portugal Matilde Rosa Araujo (A)Alain Corbel (I)
- 2 - -
Romania* - Iuliu Ratiu (A)Stan Done (I)
- 3 -
Russia* Sergey Kozlov (A)GAV Traugot (I)
Nickolay Popov (I) 4 3 - IBBY Honour List 2006 travelling exhibition.
Rwanda - - - 3 - IBBY Honour List 2006 travelling exhibition.
Serbia* - Dragana Litricin-Dunic (A) - - -Slovakia* L’ubomir Feldek (A)
Martin Kellenberger (I)Ján Navrátil (A)Olga Bajusová (I)
3 3 -
Slovenia* Lila Prap (I) Lila Prap (I) 3 3 -South Africa* - Beverley Naidoo (A)
Piet Grobler (I)4 5 -
Spain Jordi Sierra I Fabra (A)Javier Serrano (I)
María Asun Landa (A)Ulises Wensell (I)
7 7 Reading Together, Spain (2006)Fundación Taller de Letras Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Medellín, Colombia (2008)
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Sweden* Barbro Lindgren (A) §Eva Eriksson (I)
Barbro Lindgren (A) Eva Eriksson (I)
3 3 Supported Palestinian nomination: Tamer Institute for Community Education: National Reading Campaign Ramallah (2008)
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Switzerland* Hanna Johansen (A) Etienne Delessert (I) §
Jürg Schubiger (A)Hannes Binder (I)
4 4 Supported Dutch nomination: Ein Bücherbus in Nicaragua (2006)Editions Bakame, Books for Children in Rwanda (2008)
Thailand* - - 2 3 -Turkey* - Ayla Çinaroglu (A)
Nazan Erkmen (I)2 2 -
Uganda* - - 2 2 -Ukraine* - - 1 1 -United Kingdom*
Phillip Pullman (A) §David McKee (I)
David Almond (A) §Jan Pienkowski (I)
3 3 The Akili Trust Reading Development Project, UK / Kenya (2008)
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United States* E. L. Konigsburg (A)Ashley Bryan (I)
Lloyd Alexander (A)David Wiesner (I) §
3 3 Supported Indian nomination: Alif Laila Book Bus Society, Pakistan (2006)Lubuto Library Project, USA / Zambia (2008)
6Exhibit 2006 IBBY Honour List Books
Uruguay* - - - - -Venezuela* - - 2 2 - 2Zambia - - - -- -Zimbabwe - - - -- -
COOPERATION WITH OTHER IBBY NATIONAL SECTIONS
The National Sections that cooperate with other NS reported the following activities in the period 2006-2008:
Albania: Cooperation with IBBY Cyprus on exchanging experience and information about activities, as well as sending leaflets and posters to IBBY Cyprus In 2007
Argentina: the section has been part of the Jury for the Norma-Fundalectura Award and supported the nomination of Banco del Libro for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Exchanges information with IBBY Chile. Invited guest experts from Spain, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile to international book fairs held in Buenos Aires.
Australia: Developing closer ties with IBBY New Zealand.
Belgium (Flemish branch): Cooperation with Dutch IBBY. Provided 15 Flemish picture books for NAMBOOK 008, hosted by IBBY Korea.
Bolivia: Cooperation with IBBY Chile in nomination for ALMA.
Brazil: Cooperation with IBBY Cuba- Lectura 1999, 2001, 2003 Congress - Reading the 21st Century
Canada: twinning with and fundraising for IBBY Cuba. Received IBBY China delegation. Provided Canadian picture books for NAMBOOK 006, 007 and 008. Nominated IBBY Venezuela—Banco del Libro to ALMA, which won the 2007 award.
Colombia: supported the reading congresses held in Cuba, hosted the web page to promote it and also contributed to a lecturer trip.
Croatia: Cooperation with Slovenian IBBY through organization of conferences about children’s book and reading.
Cyprus: Cooperation with the Greece NS. Participated the NAMBOOK 006 organized by IBBY Korea.
Czech: Cooperates with the national sections of Germany and Japan (2008)
Denmark: Participation in the Nordic Sections meetings and cooperation in the production of the annual magazine Nordisk Blad. Exchange of magazines with other Nordic Sections.
Ecuador: Sent Reading Marathon Memoirs to IBBY Chile, Mexico and Venezuela.
Egypt: Cooperation with Korea and Lebanon and Kuwait. Exchange of newsletters and information with other NS.
Estonia: Exchanges information on children’s literature with Lithuanian and Latvian Sections. Participated in meetings and conferences of the Baltic sections of IBBY and Polish IBBY. Contributed a selection of books for NAMBOOK 006, 007 and 008. Has good contacts with NS participating in the Tallinn Illustration Triennial: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Germany and Russia, as well as Latvia and Lithuania.
France: worked with the European sections to prepare the exhibition Tour d’Europe en 27 livres d’images Germany: Collaborates with the sections of Austria, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands and exchanges newsletters, journals and other information. In May 2008 the German Section invited Jana Cenková, president of the Czech Section of IBBY, for a 10-day study visit, which included participation in two seminars of the AKJ as well as participation in a congress of one of its organizational members and meetings with organizational members of the AKJ in Munich and Berlin. For this pilot project, the section received support from the IBBY-Yamada Fund.
Greece: Organized a joint project with Turkish IBBY called A Book for my Neighbour. They also enjoy close cooperation with Cypriot IBBY by exchanging information, participating in seminars and other meetings or festivities. The section also cooperates with the Italian, Pakistan, Chinese and French sections of IBBY.
Iceland: Exchange of newsletter with other Nordic Sections.
India: Interaction and exchange of information with IBBY Nepal. Participated in the NAMBOOK 007 International Picture Book Exhibition. JBBY financially supported the literacy project of Indian BBY.
Indonesia: Recent cooperation with Dutch IBBY.
Iran: Sent books and attended the NAMBOOK 008 FESTIVAL. The present political situation in Iran does not permit bilateral activities.
Ireland: Began a twinning cooperation with IBBY Zimbabwe.
Korea: Close relationship and cooperation with CBBY and JBBY. Received picture books and illustrations from 32 national sections for the 4th Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival: NAMBOOK 008.
Latvia: Participation in conferences organized by Lithuanian IBBY. Good cooperation with Dutch IBBY, who supported the section to set up the Children’s Literature Centre in the National Library in Riga. International cooperation continues with IBBY Sections of Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Germany.
Lithuania: Cooperate with Estonian and Latvian IBBY sections. Meetings in Klaipeda are the main events, they also participate in other events and exchange the information about books for children. Some books from Estonian and Latvian were translated into Lithuanian thanks to this cooperation.
Malaysia: Organized the Asia Pacific Conference on Children Book Publishing, which enhanced regional contact and cooperation.
Moldova: Cooperation with Romanian and Lithuanian Sections of IBBY; Participate reciprocally in book fairs, symposiums, conferences, debates organised by the NS.
Netherlands: Bond of friendship with Latvia and Uruguay. Collaboration with Flemish Branch of Belgian NS. Sent books to NAMBOK 008 hosted by IBBY Korea.
New Zealand: contact with IBBY Australia.
Norway: IBBY Norway participates in the Nordic meetings and the publishing of an annual Nordic magazine; Exchanges magazine with the other Nordic sections.
Palestine: Cooperation with USBBY. IBBY Sweden supported IBBY Palestine’s nomination for the 2008 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award.
Peru: Exchange of information with Ecuador and Bolivia.
Romania: Cooperation and exchange of newsletter with IBBY Moldova.
Russia: Cooperation with IBBY Sections in Poland, Sweden and Austria.
Serbia: In contact with other NS and exchange views, ideas and suggestions.
Slovakia: Participate the European Regional meeting of IBBY National Sections in 2007 and 2008. Collaboration with Czech Section. Organized the nomination and actual participation of illustrations at BIB in cooperation with other national IBBY sections. Magazine exchanged with other NS.
Slovenia: Exchange of data and other requested information with other NS.
South Africa: Contributed a selection of books for the NAMBOOK 007 organized by IBBY Korea. Exchange of information with USBBY every second month.
Sweden: Participation in the Nordic Section annual meetings. Exchange of newsletter with other Nordic Sections.
Thailand: Exchange of information with JBBY, IBBY Malaysia, IBBY India and CBBY. Send speaker to International conference organized by IBBY Malaysia in 2008.
Turkey: Have a joint project with the Greek IBBY.
United States: Information exchange with many NS. Donation of books to KBBY. Gave regular financial support to the IBBY sections in Palestine, Lebanon, South Africa, Haiti and Zambia. Regularly provides funds to IBBY to help under-funded IBBY sections with their dues.
Uruguay: Bond of friendship with IBBY Netherlands.
Venezuela: Cooperation with IBBY Ecuador by sending two specialists to participate in the Congress and a storyteller to participate in a story-telling marathon. Exchanges information with IBBY Brazil, IBBY Argentina, IBBY Ecuador and a few other Latin-American NS.
Lack of financial means, resources, time and personnel are the main reasons for the less active, wide-ranging, large-scale and frequent cooperation between the NS, as most of the members of NS work for IBBY on voluntary basis. In some cases language barriers, visa problems, restrictions on travel, geographical distance, and a volatile or oppressive political situation are the main obstacles. It has been suggested that IBBY members need more opportunities to meet each other at congresses, regional conferences, etc. to start initial contact that could lead to closer cooperation between members.
