Focus IBBY

Recent IBBY activities include promoting the latest celebration of International Children’s Book Day and sponsoring IBBY Yamada programs for 2009 in South Africa, Guinea, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. Nine previous IBBY Yamada projects took place in Bolivia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Malaysia, Nepal and South Africa. The IBBY-Yamada Scholarship Programme continues with professional exchanges occurring between Germany and the Czech Republic and between Venezuela and Spain. IBBY workshops on bookmaking, illustration, story collecting, and reading promotion were held in Bolivia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Malaysia, Nepal, and South Africa. Mark your calendars now for the 32nd IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela in 2010.