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Focus IBBY Liz Page (bio) The IBBY Honour List 2022 The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published children’s books, honoring writers, illustrators, and translators from IBBY member countries. The 2022 Honour List includes 163 nominations in 47 different languages from 53 countries. Selected for the 2022 list are 63 entries in the category of Writing, 52 in the category Illustration, and 48 in the category Translation. Included for the first time are books in Nepalese from Nepal, as well as in Sepedi and Tshivenda from South Africa. The IBBY Honour List continues to be a beloved favorite in the world of children’s publishing. However, for the 2022 selection we have seen slightly fewer nominations. We believe that this is due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which stopped many in-person meetings taking place—including book-selection meetings. Click for larger view View full resolution The 2022 List will be launched at the 38th IBBY Congress in Putrajaya in September 2022. It will then be exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair, October 19–23, 2022, and in 2023 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, March 6–9, as well as being shown at various events around the world as a traveling exhibition. The annotated catalog will be distributed worldwide after the launch at the Congress. IBBY Congress Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2022 The 38th IBBY International Congress will take place in Putrajaya from September 5–8, 2022. The speakers are preparing and the exhibitions are getting ready. The 2022 IBBY General Assembly will take place on Wednesday, September 7, and the new IBBY Executive Committee for the period 2022–2024 will be elected. This is a big changeover year, with a new IBBY president and a new Hans Christian Andersen Award jury president, as well as new regular members of the Executive Committee. Over 100 abstracts have been accepted, as well as keynote speakers. Go to the Congress website to find out all the latest news and plan your Congress participation. https://www.ibbycongress2022.org/. Click for larger view View full resolution IBBY-Yamada Projects 2022 In 2005, IBBY launched a campaign to draw attention to the right of every child to become a reader. With generous funding given by the Yamada Bee Farm, the IBBY-Yamada Program was established to provide funds for [End Page 81] IBBY projects that help develop a book culture for children in all regions of the world. Each year, projects are developed by IBBY members and presented to the Executive Committee. The projects selected thus far have included reading promotion programs, establishing libraries in schools and community centers, and training teachers and parents in maintaining libraries and storytelling as well as workshops for writers, illustrators, and editors of children’s books. In 2022, IBBY is once again grateful to the Yamada Bee Farm for its support of ten projects around the world. The projects that were submitted by the National Sections and approved by the IBBY Executive Committee are as follows: 1. IBBY Armenia: Book Camp in Yerevan—reading promotion activities, workshops, and a cultural program for children from the border regions of Armenia. 2. IBBY Cameroon: “Imagine my book, my universe” II—a continuation of the 2021 project to develop a culture of children’s books in Cameroon. 3. IBBY Cuba: “The land in which I was born”—a workshop looking at the significance of high-quality books in communication proficiency and shaping the cultural identity of babies, children, and young people. 4. IBBY France: Creating a library in the Emergency Accommodation Centre for Migrants, including training, purchasing books, buying equipment, and inviting storytellers to the library. 5. IBBY Lebanon: Bibliotherapy and anxiety in children—online training of professionals in bibliotherapy techniques. 6. IBBY Malaysia: Workshops for children providing everyday reading and speaking skills in Malay designed to support aboriginal children in Perak and undocumented children on Sabah. 7. IBBY Mongolia: Reviewing children’s current reading situation through discussion with librarians, parents, reading promoters, and children. 8. IBBY Pakistan: The Camel Caravan—bringing books where there were none, including training sessions, equipping a new camel library, purchasing new books for the existing six libraries, monitoring, and evaluation. 9...