A huge congratulations to author Melinda Szymanik, illustrator Donovan Bixley and publisher Scholastic NZ for Fuzzy Doodle and David Elliot and publisher Otago University Press forSnark: Being a true history of the expedition that discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock . . . and its tragic aftermathbeing selected as 2017 White Ravens!
Each year language specialists at the International Youth Library select 200 newly published books from around the world that they deem as exceptional. This list of books is compiled into the annual White Ravens Catalogue which is introduced each year at the Frankfurt Book Fair as well as the Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy.
The International Youth Library (Internationale Jugendbibliothek) is the largest library for international children’s and youth literature in the world. It was opened by Jella Lepman and has been housed in Blutenburg Castle in Munich, Germany, since 1983. Each year since 1993, the language specialists (Lektoren) at the International Youth Library in Munich select newly published books from around the world that they consider to be especially noteworthy. This list of award books is compiled into the annual White Raven Catalogue, which is introduced at the Frankfurt (Germany) Book Fair in October and displayed at the Bologna (Italy) Children’s Book Fair in March. Books listed are those that deserve worldwide attention because of their universal themes and/or exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style and design. Recent catalogues contain 250 titles in approximately 30 languages from roughly 50 countries.
