Today at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) announced the winners of the 2010 Hans Christian Anderson Award. PaperTigers was there to hear the exciting news. We send our congratulations to the winners, author  David Almond, from the United Kingdom, and illustrator  Jutta Bauer, from Germany.

Also announced at today’s press conference was the winner of the  IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. This award is presented to projects run by groups or institutions that are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion for children and young people. 12 projects were nominated this year and two winners selected: Osu Children’s Library Fund (Ghana) and Convenio de Cooperación al Plan de Lectura (Medellín, Colombia).

Click here to read the press releases.

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