"The White Ravens" Panel

A lyrical treasure trove. The International Youth Library’s "Der Kinder Kalender"

First published in 2011, "Der Kinder Kalender” (The Children's Calendar), edited by the International Youth Library, has become a firm favourite in numerous children's rooms, kitchens, and classrooms. Every year, the library's specialists select poems in more than 30 languages and from up to 40 countries for the award-winning calendar. Children and adults can discover a new poem each week, featured in the original language, in German translation and accompanied by the respective original illustration.

On the occasion of changing the publisher - "Der Kinder Kalender" will now be published by Moritz Verlag - Claudia Soeffner and Jochen Weber from the International Youth Library are going to present the calendar and talk about its concept and how the poems are selected from the International Youth Library's extensive, multilingual poetry collection. They are also going to discuss popular and unusual topics, cultural peculiarities, the fascinating diversity of poetry illustration, and the art of translating children's poetry.

An event in cooperation with the International Children's Book Fair Bologna.