The Best Children’s Books at the Lviv Book Forum

The Lviv Book Forum took place on September 11th-14th where a number of newly published children’s books were presented and a list of outstanding books was announced. The list includes the following titles:

Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski (The Old Lion Publishing House)
Where Did the Sea Disappear by Mariana Prokhasko and Taras Prokhasko (The Old Lion Publishing House)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, illustrated by Vladyslav Yerko (Aba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha Publishing House)

Additionally, the book A Painted Fox by Ivan Franko, illustrated by Kost’ Lavro (Aba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha Publishing House) was granted a special honor from the jury. The book The Third Snow by Ivan Andrusiak (A Fountain of Tales Publishing House) received personal honors from the president of the Lviv Book Forum, Oleksandra Koval.

Celebration of Tove Jansson's 100 Anniversary

Tove Jansson’s books are well-loved and widely-read by Ukrainian children and adults. To celebrate Jansson’s 100th Anniversary, the Old Lion Publishing House organized a series of interactive events. Among them, was an art contest, “My World of Moomins.” The organizers received a large collection of moomins made from paper, yarn, fabric, eggs, etc. In addition, there was a tea party and a presentation of a newly published book Recipes of Moomin Mama.
Most importantly, two of Jansson’s books have been published in Braille, presented at the Art Arsenal Festival and sent to various boarding schools and rehabilitation centers for children with vision problems.

Three Ukrainian Children's Books in the White Ravens Online Catalogue

The Ukrainian chapter book Who’ll Make the Snow by Taras Prokhasko and Mariana Prokhasko, Polyna Doroshenko’s illustrative version of a classic Ukrainian book A Forest Song by Lesia Ukrajinka and Roman Skyba’s and Tetiana Denysenko’s poetry book From the Life of Sly Words are included in the White Ravens Catalogue 2014. Congratulations to the authors and illustrators!

Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Translation

The Bologna Ragazzi Award winning picturebook Stars and Poppy Seeds (2014), created by Art Studio Agrafka (Andriy Lesiv and Romana Romanyshyn) and originally published by The Old Lion Publishing House, was translated into French and published in France by Rue du Monde.

Bilingual Picturebook

As the result of a fundraising project “A Step Ahead: Becoming Global with Bilingual Ukrainian-English Picturebooks,” the picturebook Скільки?/How many? by Halyna Kyrpa and Olha Havrylova was published (Bratske Publishers). The aim of this project is to bring about possibilities and provide advantages to learn from/about Ukrainian children’s literature, to familiarize readers with the Ukrainian language, to use this literature in educational settings and Ukrainian immigrant communities and to assist Ukrainian readers in learning the English language.

iPad Books

KievSeaPirates published an iPad interactive book, a Ukrainian folktale Rolling Pea created by Ivan Sulima. This heroic folktale narrates the story of a brave character Rolling Pea who dares to fight against the mighty dragon alone. The e-folktale is available in 3 languages on the App Store.

Current Events Reflected in a Picturebook

Ukraine has recently become a country in which huge strives for social justice and dignity, revolutionary events and the war have been unfolding. During such tragic times, books often become a conduit for communication, especially between children and adults. Khrystyna Lukashchuk’s picturebook The Maidan’s Tale, dedicated to the heroes of Maidan, in the genre of contemporary folktale, allows young readers to understand the current turmoil. It was translated into English by Oksana Lushchevska and presented by The Old Lion Publishing House at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014.

Cyprus Association on Books for Young People is celebrating this year its 40 years of existence (1974 – 2014) and has organized a series of events during 2014:

November 22nd Seminar for teachers: Creative writing – Illustration – Story telling

Cyprus IBBY in collaboration with the pedagogical institude of Cyprus organized a seminar and workshops for teachers.
Main lecture: "Cultivating tomorrow’s readers. Creative writing as a means of promotion a book culture"
Speaker: Eleni Svoronou. Workshops: Eleni Svoronou, Creative writing. Frixos Michaelides, The secret codes of illustrations. Sandra Elefteriou, The dialogue of observing and feeling. Marina Katsaris, Storytelling techniques. Veronica Aloneftou, “Colouring” stories with music.

Cybby is planning many more events around the year in an effort to promote book mind and children’s literature until next summer.

German Children's Literature Award 2014

On 10 October 2014 Manuela Schwesig, Federal Minister of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, announced the prizewinners of the German Children's Literature Award 2014 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Award is the only state-sponsored prize for fiction in Germany and has been awarded since 1956.

The 2014 "Sonderpreis" (Special Award for Lifetime Achievement) was given to the translator Angelika Kutsch for her considerable and multifaceted work. The prize is a statuette of Momo and 12,000 €.

The jury of adult critics awarded the following books: in the category picture book Akim rennt (Moritz Verlag; Akim runs/original title: Akim court) by Claude K. Dubois, translated by Tobias Scheffel; in the category children´s books Königin des Sprungturms (Beltz & Gelberg; Queen of the diving platform) by Martina Wildner; in the category young adult books Wie ein unsichtbares Band (Fischer KJB; Like an invisible bond/original title: Piedra, papel o tjera) by Inés Garland, translated by Ilse Layer; in the category non-fiction for children and youth Gerda Gelse (Tyrolia-Verlag; Gerda Gnat) by Heidi Trpak, illustrated by Lauro Momo Aufderhaar.

The young adult jury, which comprises six reading clubs from all over Germany, honoured Wunder (Hanser; Wonder) by Raquel J. Palacio, translated by André Mumot. All five categories have a prize of 10,000 € and a statuette of "Momo".

For more information visit www.djlp.jugendliteratur.org

Members of the young adult jury presenting all their nominations and finally their winner on stage. © José Poblete

Group photo of all award winners and some members of the jurys. © José Poblete

Apart from the award ceremony the Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur (AKJ)/German IBBY section hosted a number of other events at the Frankfurt Book Fair. At its booth, which also represents IBBY International at the bookfair, the AKJ presented all nominated books for the German Children's Literature Award. All nominees were invited to a reception before the ceremony and the winners joined Gina Weinkauff, chair of the jury of adult critics, for a talk at the Lesezelt (reading tent) on Saturday morning. Thanks to a cooperation with the German Translators Union (Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer) another talk and book presentation took place on Friday morning. Claude K. Dubois and her translator Tobias Scheffel presented their picture book Akim rennt. The AKJ also invited members of the jury of adult critics and the young adult jury to a get-together to actively discuss their jury work.

"Märchenbildwelten von Anastasia Arkhipova"

Fairy Tale Images by Anastasia Arkhipova is the title of a touring exhibition that opened on September 24th in the museum "Barockscheune" in Volkach, Germany. The exhibition shows Anastasia’s artwork made for the fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, which have been published by Thienemann - Esslinger (Stuttgart). The exhibition was initiated and organized by the German Academy of Children's Literature and the Fairy Tale Foundation Walter Kahn.  The exhibition is supported by the publishing house.

Many experts in children´s literature - especially fairy tale experts - attended the opening and were very happy to meet the artist in person. Hannelore Daubert (former IBBY EC member and past president of IBBY Germany) gave a short introduction. Anastasia answered questions put to her by the audience and participants took the opportunity to buy books and have them signed by the artist. Anastasia is also a former member of the IBBY EC and of the Hans Christian Andersen Jury 2012 and 2014. She is currently a member of the Nami Concours Jury.

Anastasia Arkhipova and Hannelore Daubert	Anastasia Arkhipova and Andreas Bode (picture book expert, former member of the International Youth Library)	Anastasia Arkhipova, Hannelore Daubert and Liz Page

Tabook 2014

Tabook 2014 is now behind us. What remains is a brief look back at the days that were filled with outstanding events. The journey towards the book, the journey to the book, life journeys, forced journeys, spiritual journeys… The theme of the journey as a necessary movement of man towards realisation was present throughout this year's festival. This theme was threaded through the main dramaturgical events especially, which also manifested itself quite specifically in the programme for professionals.

Almost sixty small, good-quality publishers exhibited their books, this time in the local social Centre of Střelnice a late nineteenth century classical building that was filled with festival events. Following the schools' programme, groups of students from Tábor schools visited more than ten events that were offered for them, ranging from author readings and meetings, to a film seminar.

From Friday afternoon and Saturday evening hundreds of visitors from Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, as well as from further afield, attended the festival enjoying the many events scheduled. The festival was reported in the national daily newspaper Lidové noviny:
Tabook, organised by the publisher Baobab, preserved its traditional "working" character – a number of workshops, seminars, discussions and exhibitions took place, including a successful seminar for librarians entitled How to Encourage Children to Read. This is an important Tabook feature: bringing information to, and contact between, not only publishers but also others connected with books, illustrators, librarians and teachers. The connection with Tábor Gymnázium P. de Coubertina worked out in an excellent way this year, with ten classes visiting the theatre plays and other events. Cooperation with a high school that specialises in training librarians was successful also, with extraordinary help from these students to the publishers: the students covered for the publishers with their stalls, which released the publishers to allow them to meet up with their colleagues. (Lidové Noviny, 6.10. 2014, Marek Toman)

There were many talks with Czech creators, including illustrator Petr Sís, novelist and scriptwriter Jan Novák, authors Dora Kaprálova and Magdalena Platzová, a workshop with Martin Ryšavý and Tereza Límanová of the magazine Revolver Revue, and story-telling by the playwright Pavlína Brzáková. One exciting discussion took place in the Makovec wine shop where some of the smaller publishers discussed what it means to be an editor, wether they are necessary and why collected works do not do well in the Czech Republic.

One of the main focuses of the 2014 festival was the illustrated book and many exhibitions were staged around the town.  Guests from aboard participated to make this cultural meeting place not only an intense experience, but where friendships were made and contacts extablished.

Thanks to the intimacy of Tábor Old town, Tabook is a pleasant place for the meeting of publishers, as well as visitors. Parents could enroll their children in some of the workshops or place the youngest with the “Tabook kindergarten” in Střelnice. And then they were able to choose events from the abundant three-day programme. An unpretentious atmosphere, a straightforward nature and a focus on quality literature make Tabook an extraordinary event, which is both innovative and relaxed at the same time. (Marek Toman, Lidové Noviny)

See you next year!

Symposium on Nur İçözü, a Turkish author of children's books

Between April 16-18, the Department of Comparative Literature of Osmangazi University organized a symposium on the works of Nur İçözü, a prolific author of children's books, as the sixth of the series of symposiums on living authors of children and young adult literature in Turkey.  İçözü has been writing books for children since 1997 and has more than eighty books  published since then.  The Symposium was attended by numerous academics, authors, illustrators, press representatives and students of literature. More than seventy papers each concentrating on different aspects of İçözü's works were presented by academics from fifteen different universities.

A bridge to Soma project

A psychological support project was conducted by ÇGYD (Turkish IBBY) for the children of Soma who faced the tragic coal mine accident last May. More than 300 men passed away and the children of the town needed extensive support to deal with this trauma.  The project was planned for all the children in Soma, not only for those who experienced parental loss.  For a period of three months starting from July, 11 artists (authors, illustrators and sculptors) visited Soma for book reading, creative writing, illustration and clay activities.  More than 150 kids joined the sessions that were conducted weekly.  A special children's books section was also added to the public library as a gift of ÇGYD.

10 Libros de literatura vasca infantil y juvenile = 10 books from Basque Literature for Children and Young People

The Basque Branch of Spanish IBBY - Galtzagorri Elkartea - has selected ten books for young people in the Basque language. The catalogue is available at www.galtzagorri.org and was supported by Etxepare Institutua.

Basque IBBY made this selection and guide to introduce, at an international level, the active publishing of Basque literature for children and young adults. The guide is published in Spanish and English.

The selection of the titles, the synopses of the books and the short biographies of the authors have been written by Asun Agiriano, Mikel Ayerbe and Jone Arroitajauregi. They are all members of Galtzagorri Elkartea and experts in Children's Literature.

The ten selected books are: Gerlari handia by Pello Añorga and Jokin Mitxelena; Xola eta Angelito by Bernardo Atxaga; Eguberria by Juan Kruz; Igerabide by Elena Odriozola; Maitagarria eta desioa by Mariasun Landa; Urtebete itsasargia by Miren Agur Meabe; Pupuan trapua by Xabier Olaso; Ilunorduak eta argilaurdenak by Joxantonio Ormazabal; Anekdotak by Ruben Ruiz; Ebelina Mandarina by Castillo Suarez; Xia Tenzinen bidaia miresgarria by Patxi Zubizarreta.

Hearts from the bottom of the sea / Itsaspeko bihotzak, the new literature exhibition

Hearts from the bottom of the sea is a new literature exhibition of Galtzagorri Elkartea. The exhibition will highlight gender equality for children from different parts of the Basque Country.

The exhibition will be shown at the Library of Arrasate-Mondragon, the Hernani’s Library and in December it will be in Donostia-San Sebastian – the European Capital of Culture 2016. This project is supported by the Basque Government, Deputation of Gipuzkoa, Donostia-San Sebastian and both Arrasate and Hernani City Councils.

During the past few years, Galtzagorri Elkartea has created many exhibitions, all of them stored and saved.  Each of them focusses on a subject, such as fear, fables, poetry, traditional stories, illustration... Children can visit them in groups – no more than 25 per group – each visit is lead by a specialized educator.  These exhibitions are created for children to play and to make them realize that playing with books is great fun.

Hearts from the bottom of the sea is an interactive exhibition that is designed to feel, enjoy and live in it. It is a place where you can play with books, illustrations, music, art, animation, media, etc.  The books are our favourite selection of the most appropriate books considering both each gender ideology and literature criteria.

The exhibition opened on November 3rd in Arrasate. Galtzagorri Elkartea has been working on this project since 2011. We were concerned about the many children’s books that show and reproduce gender stereotypes through their illustrations and stories. Therefore, the aim of this exhibition is to make a space within the androcentric or male-dominated children’s literature by highlighting children’s books that give an open role to both women and men, with as many family models as exist in real life.  It will also show how the main characters can be free from stereotypes.

Although this exhibition is based on children's and young adult literature, it is a multidisciplinary exhibition that includes other fine arts such as illustration, music, traditional songs and poetry, etc. The exhibition is divided into five areas, each based on one children’s book where children can play with one item demonstrating gender equality. The children can go on a journey in the sea that will start at the lighthouse, feeling the waves of the sea, and will end up on an island where they will find hidden treasure. This treasure is a big heart full of male and female stereotype-free children's books.

The illustrator Aitziber Alonso, and the educators and anthropologists Miren Guillo and Mireia Delgado curated this exhibition, with collaboration from illustrators Elena Odriozola and Eider Eibar.  Itziar Zubizarreta, who has also directed most of the exhibitions previously created by Galtzagorri Elkartea, created this exhibition model.
The exhibition is directed at children from 8 to 11 years old. The goal is for this exhibition to continue travelling from one town to another, and from one city to another right across the Basque Country.

You can see a video of this exhibition on this link.

Some pictures of Galtzagorri elkartea’s literature exhibitions.

The reading seminars of Galtzagorri

Galtzagorri Elkartea organizes reading seminars that take place once a month on a Saturday morning.  More than 20 people from Galtzagorri Elkartea gather together at the Children Literature Documentary Centre in Donostia-San Sebastian. From 10:00 to 13:00 writers, storytellers, illustrators, librarians... speak about children’s books.

Another aspect of this group, is that every month (except in July and August) the members read the new publications in Basque children literature.  They discuss the books and write reviews of them.

In 2014 three important seminars were held in the series: 1.  Sara Iglesias told participants about how to use illustrated books with children; 2. illustrator Antton Olariaga told participants about the history of Basque illustration; 3. the Basque writer Patxi Zubizarreta was the speaker at the November seminar.  He spoke about the virtual or physical relationship between writers and the readers of children’s literature.

You can see a video of a part of one Seminar session on this link.

XI Faristol Critical Review Team Training Day

For 11 years the Catalan Council for Children’s and Young Adults’ Books (ClijCAT) has held a training day for the team of critics at Faristol magazine. This publication, edited by ClijCAT, has specialized in children’s and young adult literature since 1985; it is an academic magazine containing articles, bibliographies, interviews and information relating to the literary and artistic aspects of young people’s books. Faristol publishes an average of 170 critical reviews of children’s and young adult books each year. It is the only magazine of this nature in the field of the Catalan language and the oldest of its kind in Spain. There are 23 people in the Faristol critical review team.

On 18th October the XI Faristol Critical Review Team Training Day was held at the Santa Monica Art Centre. The training day began with the round table: How do writers receive critical reviews? Through the looking-glass. Speakers: Jaume Copons, Bernat Cormand and Anna Manso. Moderator: Pep Molist

• Jaume Copons writes books for children and young adults as well as scripts for several audio-visual media
• Bernat Cormand is a philologist, illustrator and critic for Faristol.
• Anna Manso writes for children and young adults as well as writing plays and television scripts.
• Pep Molist is a librarian, writes children’s books and co-directs Faristol.

The speakers discussed the different dissemination spaces for juvenile fiction criticism that exist at present beyond the paper format and the damage done by certain critical reviews on digital portals written by non-experts. They called for professional criticism that expresses opinions openly and that follows authors from their first works in order to help them develop their art. They also stated that criticism should deal with the content of the work, not just aspects of form. The authors noted that they take critical reviews into consideration, but that it is useful to take them with a ‘pinch of salt’, whether they are full of praise or damning. They said that the worst thing that could happen when a book is published is for it to go unnoticed, rather than receiving a bad review. They suggested that the Faristol reviews dedicate more space to illustration and highlight the literary content of works. They also thought that the reviews were often aimed at opinion leaders, at the adults they know will read them, rather than being accessible to the target audience of the books: children and adolescents. They ended by calling on the Faristol team to make the most of the treasure they have in their hands. The training day continued with the conference: How to appraise digital children's literature, led by Maria Neus Real. Moderator: Joan Portell

• Maria Neus Real has a PhD in Catalan Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a Master's in Literary Theory from the University of Birmingham (UK). She forms part of the GRETEL group (Children's Literature and Literary Education Research Group), directed by Dr Teresa Colomer. Within this professional framework, she has begun to develop research directly focused on literary education during childhood (books, classroom and teacher training), and particularly on digital children's literature for very young children, in close collaboration with Cristina Correro, lecturer and GRETEL advanced technical researcher at UAB.
• Joan Portell is a teacher, writes children's books and co-directs Faristol.

Maria Neus Real talked about the still developing world of digital children's literature. She presented it as a field centred around Apple technology in particular, in which the English-speaking culture plays a dominant role. She lamented the fact that there are limited apps in Catalan and that these are not always of the desired quality. Even so, she stated that they are a reality and that children's literary criticism should not ignore them because they are here to stay; they are a new product, not a substitute for children's literature in paper format.

Maria Neus Real explained that in order to evaluate digital children's literature, it is essential to apply the same values as for children's and young adult literature in paper format, as well as adding new elements facilitated by new technology, such as voice, movement, interaction, etc. i.e. the elements that appear simultaneously unlike the paper format. She gave the following precise steps for a critical evaluation:

• Assess whether it is an adapted, translated or original work.
• Assess general aspects of quality, the suitability for the reader and the narrative functions.
  • Evaluate the text: genre, themes, language, structure, images, etc.
  • Evaluate the app: movement, music, sound, interactivity, hypertext, games, extras, etc.
  • Evaluate the uses and functions of these elements. In other words, how do the target audience (children and adolescents) use the app.
• Ask oneself how the app contributes to the construction and comprehension of the work. What does it contribute to the reader's development?

Each attendee created a wrap-around band for the book that they considered deserving of a special place in their reading memory. They then presented them and gave reasons for their choices.

Roger Mello and Erik Titusson.

Gothenburg book fair 25 - 28 september

This year's guest of honour at the Gothenburg book fair was Brazil!

Of course IBBY Sweden took the opportunity to introduce HC Andersen Award Winner Roger Mello to the Swedish readers.

Wahldén & Lewis

Roger Mello had a busy schedule. He gave interesting insight into his world of illustration, talked about the situation of children's literature in Brazil in general as well as held work shops with children. Well-timed to his visit, the first book of Roger Mello translated to Swedish was presented by publisher Vagn Plenge. We hope Roger Mello will be back to visit Sweden soon!

Well-known Brazilian children's book authors Ana Maria Machado and Daniel Munduruku also participated in the programme.

IBBY Sweden presented this year's Peter Pan Award (best translated book of the year) to Ali Lewis for her fascinating book Everybody Jam. She held talks, as well as visited schools in the area. The Peter Pan Award is the only award in Sweden for translated literature and as part of the award, the author or illustrator is invited to Sweden to present his/her work. In other words it is an award that fits perfectly with IBBY's motto: Books build bridges!

IBBY's statutes available in French!

IBBY France has translated IBBY's statutes into French. They are now ready to download from IBBY's website, just click on this link!

The French selection of Outstanding Books 2015

IBBY France has selected 12 books for the Outstanding Books 2015 list and sent them to the IBBY documentation Centre at the Toronto Public library for consideration.

• In the "Books produced in special formats" category, the selected books are:

L'étoile de mer, au fil de l'eau / Caroline Morin. - Mes mains en or, 2012	Madame l'émue / Olivia Le Divellec. - Ed. Goater, 2013	Mon premier ABC braille / Caroline Morin. - Mes mains en or, 2012	Pourquoi le lièvre / Livre et DVD.- Association Signes, 2014	Les wa-wa / Laure Constantin. - les Doigts qui rêvent, 2014

• In the "Picture books from the regular production especially selected for young people with disabilities" category, the selected books are:

Maman, dans tes bras / Soledad Bravi. - École des loisirs, 2014	Une feuille, un arbre / Bruno Gilbert. - Albin Michel-Jeunesse, 2014

• In the "Picture books and novels from the regular children's book production that portray persons with disabilities" category:

Dans l'œil de Lynx / Laurent Queyssi. - Rageot, 2013	Le garçon de l'intérieur / Benoît Séverac. - Syros, 2013	Rêves en noir / Jo Witek. - Actes Sud junior, 2013	Sauf que / Anne Vantal. - Actes Sud junior, 2013	Victor et Philomène / Claire Renaud. - Ecole des loisirs, 2012

IBBY France's candidates for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

IBBY France presented 2 candidates for the ALMA 2015.

In a joint presentation with the French Librarians' association, in the illustrator's category: François Place (Discover François Place's work on his website).

In a joint presentation with IBBY Italy, and in cooperation with IBBY Japan, in the foreign illustrator category: Katsumi Komagata (Discover Katsumi Komagata's work on his website).

From the United Kingdom

IBBY UK/NCRCL One Day Conference

Saturday 8th November 2014
Belonging is… an exploration of the right to be included and the barriers that must be overcome"

Our annual one-day Conference took place on Saturday 8th November at Roehampton University. It was a day packed with presentations and papers all picking up the theme expressed in the title. To complement this side, there was a colourful exhibition which included publishers and organisations such as Seven Stories and Inclusive Minds; Letterbox Library provided an excellent bookshop. Despite the weather, there was a good attendance - many coming from outside London and there was a real sense of enjoyment over the whole day..

Please follow this link for a lively account of the day from our Committee member, Susan Bailes.
Keynote speaker, Anna McQuinn.

From Denmark

Pauline Drasbæk receives an award at the Dansk Børneillustrator Biennale

On September 29th IBBY- Denmark held a reception at the Danish Writers Union for Brazilian writer Ana Maria Machado and illustrator Roger Mello, who talked about, read and showed examples of their work. The day before, Ana Maria and Roger had held a workshop for Brazilian children at the Ørestad public library, South Copenhagen.

On November the 7th Dansk Børneillustrator Biennale (Danish Biennale for Children Books Illustrators) was launched during the annual Copenhagen Book Fair, with a rich program including various workshops and a mini seminar. Twelve nominated illustrators received a Diploma and the 1st prize winner, Pauline Drasbæk, was awarded 25.000 DK (2.925 Euros.). The Biennale, the heartchild of illustrator and visual artist Martine Noring Olsen, aims at stressing the importance of illustrations for children. The competition has two mottos: " All children have the right to a safe childhood" and "Violence is no solution, not at home either", which are very relevant to one of the sponsors Moderhjælp (Mother's help).

On November 8th, Klods Hans Prize 2014 was awarded to Rachel Røst during the annual Copenhagen Book Fair... The Klods Hans Prize is awarded every second year by the board of IBBY-Denmark for special contribution to the spreading of children litterature. Rachel Röst, founded her Læs for Livet, (Read for Life) project in 2012, to gather children books and set up small reading corners and bookshelves in institutions for endangered children and youngsters; a project that has had an amazing success. The award was an original drawing by illustrator Tea Bendix.