White Ravens Festival

The International Youth Library is dedicated to supporting international children’s and youth literature through collection, cataloguing, and outreach efforts. The library’s mission is the preservation of cultural diversity as it is manifested in the world’s literature. The central task of the library is to promote global children’s and youth literature of high aesthetic and literary quality and of significance for cultural literacy. The Library devotes itself to this task through an annual programme of exhibitions, author readings, workshops, panel discussions, presentations, conferences, and an international literature festival. The exhibition catalogues and international recommendation lists that the Library publishes are aimed at a specialist audience, while the children’s books it publishes are designed to broaden children’s cultural horizons.