It is the highest international recognition also known as the little Nobel prize in literature. This Award administered by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) recognises life-long achievement and is presented to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children’s literature. Here you can read about the recipients or nominees for this Award and browse reviews of books they created.
It was great to attend the first launch event for “The March of the Ants” last night at the “Friend in Hand” pub in Sydney’s Glebe. It was organised by […]
“The March of the Ants”: on the eternal power of story telling Read More »
This “Working Alphabet” is a linguistically witty and visually stunning delight. You would expect no less from its great Russian creators – the 1987 Nobel prize laureate Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
The “Working Alphabet”: a linguistic and visual delight from celebrated Russian creators Read More »
This graphic thriller will keep you in suspense from the word go. The conventional story-telling structure of introduction, complication and resolution is being challenged. The main complication is pre-existing and
“Woolvs in the Sitee”: an unconventional graphic thriller guaranteed to pack a punch Read More »
Margaret Wild is Australia’s national treasure. So glad to see that her contribution to children’s literature recognised with the Australia Council for the Arts 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award,
Margaret Wild is the recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award Read More »
This classic poem by the American professor of literature and theology Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) and the Australian master of illustration Robert Ingpen (born 1936) was first titled “A Visit
“The Night before Christmas”: Robert Ingpens’ Santa from my childhood’s imagination Read More »