Monday 20 - Wednesday 22 August

Pre Congress Tours

Thursday 23 August

08.30 - 14.30

IBBY Executive Meeting

09.00 - 18.00

Registration

10.00 - 12.00

Walking tour: Peter Pan's London

Visits:  Please note all visits are now fully booked

10.00 - 12.00

1.  Visit to a London Borough of Westminster specialist children’s library to discuss the national Summer Reading Challenge programme and observe events in one library.

10.30 - 13.00

2.  Visit the Victoria and Albert Museum's Renier collection of historic children's books and the Beatrix Potter collections, introduced by the Frederick Warne Curator of Children's Books.

3.  Visit the British Library for a brief introductory tour, followed by a session about the children's books collection

15.00 - 16.00

Opening Ceremony
View Video

This includes a performance by children from Theatre Peckham

16.00 - 16.30

Where's Wally? 25 birthday party  Sponsored by Walker Books

16.30 - 18.00

Children's Laureates   Anthony Browne (View Video),  Julia Donaldson MBE (View Video) and Michael Morpurgo OBE (View Video)

18.00 - 20.00

Presentation of the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Awards 2012 followed by Reception.
View Video

The awards are sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper company, Japan.

Friday 24 August

08.00 - 08.50

Earlybird session

Sponsored by Barefoot Books

09.00 - 10.30

Plenary Session 1:

a)  Why translate children's books? Emer O'Sullivan (View Video)
b)  Talking about translation: Bart Moeyaert and Aidan Chambers in conversation (View Video)

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee break and launch of Congress Book, sponsored by Mantra Lingua

11.00 - 12.30         

Parallel Sessions

12.30 - 13.15

Lunch break 1st sitting  /  Poster Sessions / Augmented London: virtual reality as a dynamic lens to view social issues  Saci Lloyd

13.15 - 14.00

Lunch break 2nd sitting  / Crossing the boundaries of narrative: translating the stories behind non-print media  Helen Dennis

Saci and Helen are sponsored by Hodder Children's Books.  They open An Afternoon with Hodder.

14.00 - 15.30

IBBY open Forum
An opportunity for members of IBBY national sections to meet in regional groups and discuss matters of common interest, then come together as a global group to pool ideas and suggest future collaboration. (continues 16.00 - 17.30)

14.00 - 15.30

Parallel Sessions
a) Live Translation - two translators, two translations of an extract from a novel by Spanish author Eliacer Cansino. With translators Daniel Hahn and Rosalind Harvey 
(View Video)
b)  Celebrating 20 years of Bookstart, a project which has migrated worldwide, with speakers who have developed similar initiatives in their own countries. With Wendy Cooling, Majo de Saedeleer, Izumi Satou, Viv Bird and Rosemary Clarke

15.30 - 16.00

Tea with Belle and Boo sponsored by Orchard Books

16.00 - 17.30

IBBY open Forum Continued

16.00 - 17.30

Parallel Sessions

18.00 - 19.00

Saturday 25 August

08.00 - 08.50

Earlybird session

 For children after 3.11: Reports from Japan

a) Books for Tomorrow: Supporting  Children in Disaster-Stricken Areas through Books
Takao Murayama, President, JBBY
b) To the Children of Fukushima, and for Children with Special Needs
Hisako Kakuage, Clinical Developmental Psychologist
c) Picture Books for Children of the Tsunami-Devastated Area
Chieko Suemori, Editor and Representative of '3.11 Ehon Project Iwate'

09.00 - 10.30

Plenary Session 2

a)  Arrivals and departures Shaun Tan sponsored by Hodder Children's Books (View Video)

b)  Illustrators' Panel with Kitty Crowther, Shirin Adl and Chen Jiang Hong (View Video)

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee with publisher Janetta Otter-Barry and authors and illustrators Shirin Adl, Mary Hoffman, Ifeoma Onyefulu and Jessica Souhami sponsored by Frances Lincoln

11.00 - 12.30

Parallel Sessions

12.30 - 13.15

Lunch break 1st sitting   / Verna Wilkins  Writing books with diversity in mind

13.15 - 14.00

Lunch break 2nd sitting   /  Poster Sessions / Candy Gourlay  Motherless nation?

Verna and Candy are sponsored by Random House Children's Publishers UK .  They open An Afternoon with Random House.

14.00 - 15.30

IBBY Honour List 2012 presentation (View Video)

15.30 - 16.00 

Tea with Random House authors, Louise Yates, Alexis Deacon and Dee Shulman

16.00 - 17.30

Parallel Sessions

19.45 -21.45

Gala Reception and presentation of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards at the Science Museum (View Video)

The 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards are sponsored by Nami Island Inc.

Sunday 26 August

09.00 - 11.00        

Plenary Session 3

a)  Jamila Gavin, Elizabeth Laird, Beverley Naidoo  Since time immemorial: stories from everywhere for everyone (View Video)

b)  Storytellers' Panel with Dashdondog Jamba, Sonia Nimr and Michael Harvey (View Video)

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00

Plenary Session 4

a)  Patsy Aldana  How can we live together?  Giving everyone a voice (View Video)

b) Michael Rosen  Migration - towards a new normal (View Video)

13.00 - 13.45

Lunch break, 1st sitting  / Kai Meyer in conversation with Anthea Bell (1)  Author and translator: a literary partnership (View Video)

13.45 - 14.30

Lunch break, 2nd sitting  / Kai Meyer in conversation with Anthea Bell (2)  Author and translator: a literary partnership

Kai and Anthea are sponsored by Templar Publishing

14.30 - 16.00

IBBY General Assembly

14.30 - 16.00

Professional Meetings

16.00 - 16.30

Tea break

16.30 - 18.00

IBBY General Assembly

16.30 - 18.00

Professional Meetings (continued)

18.30 - 20.00

Closing Ceremony

This includes a performance by Lemn Sissay

 

Monday 27 August

09.00 - 17.00

IBBY Executive Committee Meeting

Monday 27 August - Wednesday 29 August

Post Congress Tours