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…
This is the fourth year that the International Youth Library Foundation and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) have presented NotenTexte. These children's concerts combine language and…
Since the tickets for the sunday concerts were sold out within a couple of days, there will be additional concerts on Saturday, 29 November 2025 at 10 am and 12 pm.
This is the fourth year that the…
Final presentation of the writing workshop with Sophia Klink and Beate Schäfer
How do you make a literary text captivating and interesting? The workshop for young authors at the International Youth…
The Nationwide Reading Day is an initiative of the Reading Foundation, the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and the Deutsche Bahn Foundation. It is the largest reading aloud festival in Germany. The…
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.…