Children's literature is full of funny inventions and fantastic machines: There is the excessive-heat-school-closure-regulator, flying bicycles or the good-morning wake-up machine of the two Finnish…
Fellowship Programme
The International Youth Library's fellowship programme is one of the rare international research initiatives in the field of children's and young adult literature worldwide and…
Dr. Sabine Solf
Clara Fernández López
Dr. Rolf Griebel
Dr. Max Medrisch
Uta-Christina Biskup
Dr. Christiane Raabe
Christopher Franceschelli
Dr. Elisabeth Donoughue
Bärbel…
For more than 30 years, the atmospheric Festival of Lights has been held on the first weekend in December as part of the Blutenburg Christmas Market. The little houses of light, which transform the…
Further information
»The White Ravens« in Frankfurt and Bologna
How to submit books
The White Ravens. A Selection of International Children‘s and Youth Literature
The annually published »The…
2025 | The White Ravens A Selection of International Children‘s and Youth Literature y Ill. Ø vind ter Torse Internationale Jugendbibliothek CONTENT PREFACE ARABIC …
Books eligible for the »White Ravens« list:
Original editions, both fiction and non-fiction for readers age 1 to 18. Translations are not eligible. Books published during the previous year. E.g.…
— The event will take place on Wednesday, 29th October 2025. —
Lena Gorelik, born in St. Petersburg in 1981, came to Germany as a child with her Russian-Jewish parents in the early 1990s.…