International Children's Book Day 2019
Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, 2 April, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books.
Each year a different National Section of IBBY has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. It decides upon a theme and invites a prominent author from the host country to write a message to the children of the world and a well-known illustrator to design a poster. These materials are used in different ways to promote books and reading. Many IBBY Sections promote ICBD through the media and organize activities in schools and public libraries. Often ICBD is linked to celebrations around children's books and other special events that may include encounters with authors and illustrators, writing competitions or announcements of book awards.
IBBY Lithuania is the sponsor for International Children's Book Day 2019.
ACTIVITY for our students
1. Play the matching game in this page
2. For the stories that you are not sure, have a web search and check the plot to find the clues that will help you on the matching game
3. When all your classmates finish the matching game, choose one fairy tale of Andersen to tell (use your own words) to your classmates
5. Vote your favorite fairytale (POLL in this page)
4. Teacher takes some photos of this process and creates a gif image (many web tools exist; the simplest is https://gifmaker.me/) and uploads this photo in the Twinboard of this page
5. Describe shortly your experience in the forum (discussion) of this page. Which fairy tale you did not know and you have learned through this activity? Which fairy tale you like the way that was told by your classmates...etc
Optional: you can also create some drawings for your favorite fairy tale, or you can create games (learning apps) or you can create handwritten small books (like on 1st February) and the games will be added in GAMES page (link here) and the extra drawings will be added in MATERIALS and admin will add them after, IN this page
Matching game
RESULT of the poll in this page about
our favorite tale by Andersen:
