Abstract
Based on experiences of our colleagues in Germany and France we therefore bring you for the fourth time - under the banner of the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers and in co-operation with the Czech Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) - a selection of the best original books for children and young people published within the last sixteen months. This publication goes out not only to librarians and others in the information sector but, thanks to partner booksellers, also mainly to parents, grandparents, teachers, and others who acknowledge that reading provides any child with future advantage over passive recipients of entertainment, not to mention the ability to see the world in its subtleties, which we associate with artistic texts and illustrations.The volume of this year's issue clearly suggests that we bring you something new again.
Increasing the publication's scope to 53 items, which the new partners of the project will work with all year around, enables us to also include some titles which until now have been largely underrepresented. Educational books or books with didactic orientation aimed at family use off er valuable creative and interest-evoking approaches.