During a press conference to be held on 1st of February at the Cairo international Book Fair, the Anna Lindh Foundation will announce the Honour list including the best ten Arabic books for children.

The award is part of the Foundation's activity "100 Books Exhibition", organised in the framework of its Programme for Children Literature, an activity which aimed to circulate 100 Arabic children's books between Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, and where books were displayed to the public in order to see and handle quality books from diversified origin.

The honour list announcement will be done in the presence of authors, publishers and illustrators of the honoured books; journalists; partners coordinating and leading the activities in the focus countries, as well as the Programme’s management team at the Anna Lindh Foundation.

The honoured books will be purchased and distributed to libraries in the focus countries and especially to libraries which are frequented by poor children and girls, the primary target groups of the Programme.

The Children Literature Programme is a regional programme carried by the Anna Lindh Foundation and funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), with the aim of developing children’s literature through reading, and raise the children’s life skills, and this in five main Arab countries; Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Jordan. In addition, the Programme tends to integrate the concept of “Reading for Fun is Reading for Development”, to strengthen the intellectual, spiritual, moral and emotional development of children.

For more information on the Children Literature Programme click here