Chronik der wichtigsten Ereignisse in der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek 1945 Ab Herbst verfolgt die jüdische Journalistin und Autorin Jella Lepman (1891-1970) als Beraterin für Frauen- und…
The James Krüss Prize for International Children's and Young Adult Literature honours and promotes the work of a children's book author whose texts are characterised by linguistic brilliance,…
English with Lela!
Here we don't just "learn" English. We play, sing, read, write and do handicrafts in English, have fun with the language and strengthen self-confidence. In small groups of 5-10…
Many children's rooms, family kitchens, schools and nurseries would be unthinkable without it: for more than ten years, The Children's Calendar has accompanied us week by week through the year with…
When books were burned in Berlin on 10 May 1933, Erich Kästner stood in the crowd and watched as people threw piles of his books into the fire. Children's books were also on the Nazis' "black list"…
Black White Grey. Picture books without colours
This year's "The White Ravens" panel is dedicated to picture books that make do without colours. These have become increasingly popular on the…
Reading to each other connects! In the children's library, parents, grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles or teenagers read from books in their languages on a few afternoons a month.
Participation is…
The International Children's Library of the International Youth Library Foundation has been in use for forty years without any structural changes. It was time to renovate the lending library in the…