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By Viviana Quiñones<br />
Chair, <strong>IFLA</strong> Section Libraries<br />
for Children and Young Adults<br />
viviana.quinones@bnf.fr<br />
Foreword<br />
the world through picture books • foreword and introduction • 5<br />
the<br />
world<br />
through<br />
picture<br />
books<br />
We are very happy to publish the first results of this participative, international, ongoing<br />
programme, “The World through Picture Books”. It deals with something we children’s<br />
librarians must never lose sight of, even if we are so busy with new technologies, budget<br />
restrictions, everyday work…: read children’s books and choose the best ones for our readers.<br />
Of course, we could spend hours discussing what “best” means, but one thing it surely means<br />
is very good books from the readers’ own country and from as many other countries as<br />
possible…This is why, inspired by Kazuko Yoda’s request to our Committee for advice on the”<br />
top ten” picture books in Committee members’ countries, we launched “The World through<br />
Picture Books” programme, in 2011.<br />
Librarians from thirty-six countries have already made their choices which we publish here.<br />
Papers on picture books in several countries were presented at <strong>IFLA</strong> conference in Helsinki<br />
and are on line (http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/session-99). Thanks to publishers’ generosity,<br />
the selected books were exhibited in Finland during <strong>IFLA</strong> conference 2012 and at Bologna<br />
International Children’s Book Fair 2013. Two touring exhibition collections are based in the<br />
National Libraries of France and Japan ; they are available to be booked by any country wishing<br />
to exhibit them.<br />
We wish to warmly thank all country co-ordinators and all children’s librarians in all countries<br />
that have worked for this programme: it is their participation that makes it valuable.<br />
And many warm thanks to Annie Everall for the hard co-ordinating work she has done and<br />
will continue doing…<br />
Children’s literature is a treasure for young and not so young people. If some countries’<br />
best works are largely known, those from other countries are not… We hope these lists<br />
of favourites will allow for many happy readings all over the world.
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