8 April 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEIBBY Announces Winner of the 2024 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion
AwardJunko Yokota, Chair of the IBBY Reading Promotion Jury announces the winner of the 2024
IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. The International Board on Books for Young People isvery grateful for the continuous support of the Asahi-Shimbun Media Group from Japan.
The 2024 winner is:
ATD (All Together in Dignity) Fourth World’s Street Libraries, nominated by IBBY France.
Established in 1968, over 60 street libraries offer accessible opportunities for participation
simply by using colourful blankets to establish spaces for reading and responding to books inpublic areas. Targeting opportunities for children to break the cycles of poverty throughnurturing desire to learn and developing creativity, the French Ministries of Education andCulture, and the Depardieu Foundation, have offered 88,000 euros of support.
The jury was impressed with how replicable this project is due to the limited requirements, andhow communities could get involved through training offered through digital opportunities.
IBBY congratulates ATD Fourth World’s Street Libraries. The prize of US$ 10,000, which isgenerously given by the Asahi Shimbun, and a diploma will be presented to the winning projecton 30 August 2024 at a ceremony taking place in the framework of the 39 th IBBY World
Congress in Trieste, Italy.
The 2024 IBBY Reading Promotion Award Jury comprised: Tina Bilban from Slovenia, Ingrid
Källström from Sweden, Elena Pasoli from Italy, Luis Zendrera from Spain, and was chairedby Junko Yokota from the USA.
Twelve other projects were nominated for the award. These include: Poesía en la Escuela(Poetry at school), from Argentina; Fairy Tale Craftmaster, from Azerbaijan; Forest of Reading,from Canada; Tiny Books from Baltic Authors, from Lithuania; Children Cultural Development
Center, from Iran; Stichting De VoorleesExpress (The Reading Express Foundation),from the Netherlands; De Verhalenweverij (Story Weavers), from the Netherlands; Slovenia,_____________________________________________________________________________IBBY – Nonnenweg 12, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland www.ibby.org

Društvo Bralna značka Slovenije (Slovene Reading Badge Society), from Slovenia; IkusiMikusi, from Spain; World in Books, from Mozambique; Barbershop Books, from the USA; andPez Linterna, from Venezuela. It is generously sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun-Media Groupfrom Japan.

About the IBBY-Asahi reading Promotion Award
The IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award has been given biennially since 1986 to a groupor institution, which by their outstanding activities are judged by the Jury to be making a lasting
contribution to book promotion programmes for children and young people. The prize isawarded for a specific project rather than to the overall on-going activities of, for example, aNational Section. The submitted projects were judged for how well they support the IBBY
Mission, as well as evidence of experience, sustainability, and opportunities for growth.
Criteria included clearly stated originality and innovation, and evaluation that showed impact
on target audience.

About IBBY
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), established in 1953, is a nonprofit organization that represents an international network of people from all over the world
who are committed to bringing books and children together.

Contact:
For more information, about IBBY and the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award, please visit
www.ibby.org or write to Executive Director Carolina Ballester at carolina.ballester@ibby.org.