Special Collections

The International Youth Library offers a collection of about 675,000 children's and young adult books in more than 250 languages from six centuries. Among them are numerous special collections. These special collections consist largely of private donations, mostly from book collectors who bequeath their private collections to the International Youth Library Foundation.

Geneva Collection
Donaldism Collection by Hartmut Holzapfel
Pop-up Collection Ulla Klückmann
Mischke Collection
Murken Collection
The Pellowski Collection of Cloth Books
Binette Schroeder Collection
Schulz Collection
Levy & Müller Collection by Ralf Schulze
Yokota-Teale-Collection
Lawrence R. Sipe Collection
Werner Ziesel Collection