The 2020 White Ravens Catalogue was published today. It includes eight new Chinese titles, published in 2019 and 2020.

The annually published White Ravens catalogue is the most important ongoing publication of the International Youth Library (IYL), in Munich. It is published each autumn to be presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. All new White Ravens titles are introduced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair the following year.
From the large number of reviewer’s copies and donations which are received from publishing houses, institutions, organizations and friends of the library, the IYL language specialists (Lektoren) select 200 new outstanding books from more than 50 countries in over 30 languages to be White Ravens each year. A copy of each book is held in the collection of the IYL.
A few years ago, I started to put together a list of all the Chinese titles that have been selected as White Ravens over the years, collecting data online and visiting the IYL in July 2019. Lucia Obi, the East Asian language specialist at the IYL kindly checked my work, edited it and enhanced it. Together, we can now share this impressive list of 139 Chinese White Ravens, 1984-2020:
The titles are hyperlinked to my original source of data:
- 2013-2020 – https://whiteravens.ijb.de/list (online catalogue)
- 2008-2012 – https://www.ijb.de/en/shop/wr-catalogues (pdfs)
- 1993-2013 – https://whiteravens.ijb.de/list (online catalogue)
The eight Chinese titles selected as White Ravens in 2020








If you’d like to see all 139 Chinese titles selected as White Ravens, 1984-2020, click on the link below:
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