IBBY Calendar 2024

Please note that all in-person events are subject to change.
Details of national or regional events can be found in the Regional and National Sections newsletters in IBBY Worldwide. A more detailed Agenda for IBBY Members is on the Members' Site.

January

Publication of Bookbird issue Vol. 62.1/2024

April

Publication of Bookbird issue Vol. 62.2/2024

Special issue on Italian children's literature

2 April

International Children's Book Day, sponsored by IBBY Greece

6–7 April

IBBY Executive Committee meeting in Bologna, Italy

8–11 April

Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Stand: Hall 29 C45

The IBBY Stand will feature:

Hans Christian Andersen Award 2024
IBBY Reading Promotion Awards 2024
International Children's Book Day 2024
Bookbird: A Journal of Children's Literature

8 April

IBBY Annual Press Conference at the Illustrators Café at Bologna Children's Book Fair
15:00 CET (streamed on Youtube)

Programme

Welcome (Sylvia Vardell, IBBY President)
IBBY Projects and Activities Around the World (Carolina Ballester, IBBY Executive Director)
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature (Valerie Coghlan, Bookbird Inc. President)
International Children’s Book Day 2024, hosted by IBBY Japan (Yukiko Hiromatsu, JBBY Board Member)
39^th IBBY World Congress (Elisabetta Lippolis, IBBY Italy Vice-president and Congress Chair)
2024 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award and IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award: Winner Announcement (Junko Yokota, IBBY Reading Promotion Jury President)
2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award: Winners Announcement
Liz Page, 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Jury President

IBBY Apero at the IBBY Stand
16:30 CET

9 April

IBBY Europe National Sections Meeting

Room Ronda, 1^st Floor, Block C, Centro Servizi

23 April

Inauguration of World Book Capital 2024: Strasbourg, France

July

Publication of Bookbird issue 62.3/2024

Hans Christian Andersen Award winners' special issue

August–September

29 August

EC meeting in Trieste, Italy

The IBBY Forum (IBBY Members pre-Congress meeting)

30 August–1 September

39th IBBY World Congress, Trieste, Italy

Opening Ceremony
IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award giving ceremony
IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award

31 August

IBBY General Assembly
2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award-giving Ceremony

1 September

IBBY Honour List diploma ceremony
Congress closing ceremony

2 September

IBBY Executive Committee meeting with outgoing and incoming IBBY officers

October

Publication of Bookbird issue 62.4/2024

16–20 October

Frankfurt Book Fair

Guest of Honour: Italy

November–December

15–17 November

China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair

30 Nov–8 Dec

Guadalajara Book Fair

Guest of Honour: Spain