2012/11/14

Nami Island has recieved a kind email from Liz Page, executive director of International Board on Books for Young People. The email has a link that shows a panel discussion organised during 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. Following is the email that Liz Page sent to IBBY friends. The panel are talking about the history and value of IBBY and Hans Christian Andersen Awards, the process of international jury selection and tasks of Hans Christian Andersen Awards to enhance its prestigiousness. Please follow the youtube link for the shortened version of the discussion.

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IBBY Presence at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair

To celebrate the Hans Christian Andersen Awards, IBBY, with support from the Frankfurt Book Fair, organized a panel discussion featuring the Awards.  The participants were Junko Yokota a former HCAA juror, Wally de Doncker immediate past Vice President of IBBY, David Almond  winner of the 2010 HCA Award for writing, Roger Mello two-time finalist for the illustrator Award, and Miriam Gabriela Möllers an expert on children's and youth literature who acted as moderator.

The hour-long discussion took place on Friday morning, 12 October in hall 3.0 as part of the Forum für Kinder- und Jugendmedien programme.  Thanks to an arrangement with Pioneerfilm from Ludwigshafen, Germany, we are proud to invite you to view a shortened version of the discussion at http://youtu.be/gG6jfgDgIEc   The clip can also be viewed on the IBBY website at http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273

We would like to sincerely thank Birgit Fricke from the Frankfurt Book Fair for supporting this panel discussion and IBBY Germany for their long-time support of IBBY representation at the fair. And most of all, we thank Nami Island Inc., for sponsoring the Hans Christian Andersen Awards.

Liz Page

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(A scene from the panel discussion http://youtu.be/gG6jfgDgIEc)