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The National Sections of IBBY in Europe present a regularly updated selection of the best books for children in European languages. To access a selection, simply click on the language you're interested in.

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IBBY Europe also highlights books in the most common languages currently spoken by migrant or refugee children in Europe. These selections were made with the help of local children’s literature specialists. This section will be added to and expanded in the future, and we urge you to contact us if you have suggestions for books to be included in this useful selection.

Arabic Dari Farsi Pashto Urdu

100 Books for Young Readers in Arabic

This is a selection of 100 books in Arabic for young people published in various countries of the Arab world since 2018. A similar selection made in 2017 is accessible online.
These selections provide an overview of a literature that has experienced real growth over the past thirty years, offering quality works, many of which have won international prizes. Divided by genre and organised in alphabetical order of title, these choices also include some translations into Arabic of books initially published in other languages, with the aim of creating bridges between languages and cultures.

These selections were made by the Arab World reading committee of the French Takam Tikou magazine, which brings together professionals from different backgrounds (BnF, IMA, libraries of the City of Paris).

Download 100 Books for Young Readers in Arabic - 2024 Edition (in English)

Download 100 Livres pour la jeunesse en arabe - Edition 2024 (in French)


Books in all languages - random order

The cover has a bright green background and a white sheep staring at the reader.
Mijn allermooiste speelgoedwoordenboek
Dutch
Nicolas with his brother visiting Elli the elephant at the zoo
Ο Νικόλας και η Έλλη
Greek
Hey, hey, hey, Taxi!
German
A llama and a penguin are standing on the shore of the ocean.
Okeāns un tuksnesis
Latvian
A grinning girl is running with a fishing rod in her hands. In the fishhook is hanging a straw hat that another girl with a rucksack is looking at. At the background there is a school yard.
Heinähattu, Vilttitossu ja ärhäkkä koululainen
Finnish
Slovenské rozprávky
Slovak
Zmaj ispod Staroga grada
Zmaj ispod Staroga grada
Croatian
In a naive drawing style we see a bird between flowers and a mushroom.
Kahani ek Jungle ki
Urdu
En 4 temps
French
 A girl and a boy wearing bright-colored clothes are catching rubber fish with a hand net. The landscape framing them is turquoise and blue.
Aatos ja Sofian meri
Finnish
Fred und ich
German
Martin
Basque
O psovi, ktorý mal chlapca
Slovak
cover of the book Lampje by Annet Schaap
Lampje
Dutch
Dafnis a Chloé
Slovak
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