ICBD Children's Book Day poster 2024
Organized by IBBY (The International Board on Book for Young People), different National sponsors are chosen each year to represent Children’s Book Day internationally.
International Children’s Books Day is always held on or around 2nd April. This was the birthday of the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote some of the best-known children’s stories, including ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’.
IBBY Japan is the 2024 International Children’s Book Day official sponsor, under the motto :
"Cross the Seas on the Wings of Imagination".
IBBY Japan is the sponsor for International Children's Book Day 2024. The Japanese author of the message is Eiko Kadono and Nani Furiya is the illustrator of the poster.
Eiko Kadono, a prominent Japanese author and winner of the 2018 HC Andersen Award for writing, has composed a letter to the children of the world. Nana Furiya, an international-minded Japanese artist living in Slovakia, created a poster.
Imagination is the key word for ICBD 2024. JBBY believes that "fostering imagination will lead to mutual understanding and a spirit of tolerance".
- ICBD message 2024 (English translation)
Stories travel, riding on wings,
Longing to hear the joyful beat of your heart.
I’m a traveling story. I fly anywhere.
On wings of wind, or wings of waves, or sometimes on tiny wings of sand. Of course, I also ride the wings of migratory birds. And even those of jet planes.
I sit beside you. Opening the pages, I tell you a story, the one you want to hear.
Would you like a strange and wondrous story?
Or how about a sad one, a scary one, or a funny one?
If you don’t feel like listening right now, that’s fine too. But I know someday you will. When you do, just call out, “Traveling story, come. Sit beside me!”
And I’ll fly right there.
I have so many stories to share.
How about a story of a little island tired of being alone who learned to swim and set off to find a friend?
Or the tale of a mysterious night when two moons appeared.
Or the one about Santa Claus getting lost.
Oh, I can hear your heart. It’s beating faster.
Flitter-flutter, thumpity-thump, pitter-patter, bumpety-bump.
The traveling story has jumped inside and set your heart racing.
You’ll become one yourself next, spreading your wings to fly.
And so, another traveling story is born.
Eiko Kadono. Japanase author
Languages:
Japanese (original language), French, German, Spanish, Greek and Chinese.
- Author
Born in Tokyo in 1935, Eiko Kadono lost her mother when she was five. Before long the Pacific War started, so she had to be evacuated to the northern side of Japan at 10 years old. The experience of war as a child is at the root of Kadono's deep commitment to peace and happiness. (...)
Her first book was published in 1970, since then she published about 250 books, and these were translated into 10 languages. The children's novel Majo no takkyūbin or Kiki's Delivery Service (English version) about a young witch-in-training, which inspired one of Miyazaki Hayao’s beloved anime films.
"to start reading a book is like opening a door to a different world. It doesn't close at the end of the story, another door is always waiting there to be opened. People will start to look at the world in a different way after reading a story, and it's the beginning in a sense. And I think that is the true pleasure of reading."
Eiko Kadono
- Illustrator:
Education:
- Reading:
- One is benefiting those readers in your classroom that wish to read from you and need to let them be free.
- Secondly, it is so you can reap the exponential rewards their choices offers.
However taking part in International Children’s Book Day is synonymous of the benefits of reading as a whole. Here some of them:
- Brain exercise - reading engages and exercises the brain, helping it to better make neural connections.
- Vocabulary improvement - the amount of terminology that a child uses and possesses can increase with regular reading.
- Empathy and imagination - reading opens children up to new horizons, helping them think outside the box and engage with the outside world in ways they had not done previously.
- Morale improvement - it should not be forgotten that reading is fun! Taking part in it will boost a child’s morale and uplift their mood.
- Animation:
I wrote about Eiko Kadono and her beloved books serie Kiki's Delivery Service which inspired one of Miyazaki Hayao’s beloved animated films.
Kiki’s Delivery Service, basis of the animated film by Studio Ghibli in 1989. Kiki's Delivery Service is an animated movie directed by the world acclaimed animator, Hayao Miyazaki. The story is based on Eiko Kadono's novel of the same title.
In her many marvelous and funny picture books, or her great series of novels about the little witch Kiki or her novel set during World War II about a brave girl who must walk through a terrifying tunnel of trees to get to school.
Hayao Miyazaki, 1989
"The beauty of Kiki lies on its high degree of realism, with its peaceful coexistence with the fantasy elements. Actually, the only fantasy element in the movie is Kiki's flying magic. All the other things, the sceneries, the people, and the struggle of growth itself, are truthful presentations of the real life. The characters are three-dimensional and fully-developed"
Eiko Kadona, 1985
- Invite students to read the book before displaying the animated film in the classroom.
- Ask them about their preferences: reading or watch the animation. Both are valid but they will have perhaps more pleasure to read the book, imagining all aboutthe little girl and all her adventures?
"To start reading a book is like opening a door to a different world. It doesn't close at the end of the story, another door is always waiting there to be opened."
Eiko Kadono
There you are! Reading is opening a door to a new world and another door to imagination.
G-Souto
02.04.2024
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