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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

Cover of كيف صرت حكواتياً
كيف صرت حكواتياً
Arabic
The king Ahmad Shah is looking out of a window
د‭ ‬احمد‭ ‬شاه‭ ‬پوهه‬‬‬
Pashto
A boy in traditional clothes is looking at the reader with a village in the background.
پسر‭ ‬بی‭ ‬نام
Dari
Illustration of a snowman with a big red carrot nose and the book's title written on its body
Ze gaan er met je neus vandoor
Dutch
L'homme clé
French
A strong-builded man playing the trumpet
Wszystko gra
Polish
A bridge with feet trace over it and a football between windows
Most nad Missisipi
Polish
A girl is riding a horse on a green vale. Grey mountains and a stormy sky stand above them. Threatening green eyes look at them from the sky.
Anaché: myter från akkade
Swedish
Luukere Juhani juhtumised
Estonian
petra lood
Petra lood
Estonian
Pippilothek???
German
Green crocodile and stocking sitting on the sea cost
Madingiausias krokodilas
Lithuanian
In a naive drawing style we see a bird between flowers and a mushroom.
Kahani ek Jungle ki
Urdu
Maarius, maagia ja libahunt Liisi
Estonian
Dark cover, letters by pieces of coloured pencils make title TĒTIS and another column through letter Ē from the top to the bottom
Tētis
Latvian
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