Reading guides
Our reading guides are to be used in book circles, in schools or just as inspiration for further reading. They are free of charge and aimed for adults who want to read with children and young adults. Enjoy your reading!
Reading guides to books by the laureates
The guides have different content and structure, but common to all is that they contain an introduction to the author or illustrator, an introduction to the book's main themes and stylistics and give recommendations for activities or topics to discuss.
2023 – Laurie Halse Anderson
Reading guides to Speak and The Impossible Knife of Memory
2022 – Eva Lindström
Reading guide to Everyone Walks Away
2021 – Jean-Claude Mourlevat
2020 – Baek Heena
Reading guides to Cloud Bread, Magic Candies and Bath Fairy
2019 – Bart Moeyaert
Reading guides to Everyone's Sorry Nowadays and It’s Love We Don’t Understand
2018 – Jacqueline Woodson
Reading guide to Brown Girl Dreaming
2017 – Wolf Erlbruch
Reading guide to Duck, Death and the Tulip
2016 – Meg Rosoff
Reading guide to Picture Me Gone
2014 – Barbro Lindgren
2013 – Isol
Reading guides to It’s Useful to Have a Duck, Nocturne: Dream Recipes and Petit, the Monster
2012 – Guus Kuijer
Reading guide to The Book of Everything
2011 – Shaun Tan
2010 – Kitty Crowther
Reading guides to Alors? and L’enfant racine
2008 – Sonya Hartnett
Reading guides to The Devil Latch and The Ghost’s Child
2006 – Katherine Paterson
Reading guide to The Great Gilly Hopkins
2005 – Ryôji Arai
Reading guide to Basu ni notte
2005 – Philip Pullman
Reading guide to Northern Lights
2004 – Lygia Bojunga
Reading guide to My Friend the Painter
2003 – Christine Nöstlinger
Reading guide to Fly Away Home