Beirut
Beirut 1100
Lebanon
- Youth and education
LBBY Objectives • Promote reading among children and youth. • Alert parents and teachers to the importance of reading. • Encourage and promote quality Arabic children’s books. • Introduce children and youth to quality drama. • Promote international understanding through children’s books.
LBBY Objectives • Promote reading among children and youth. • Alert parents and teachers to the importance of reading. • Encourage and promote quality Arabic children’s books. • Introduce children and youth to quality drama. • Promote international understanding through children’s books.
- Initiation of reading week - Distribution of portable libraries holding 100-125 books each in Arabic, English and French - Conducting workshops, TV scripts and pupet scripts to writers of children's books, as well as to illustrators, teachers and parents. - A yearly reading competition - Books exhibits - A guide for Setting up and Running a School Library - Bibliotherapy, as a technique to help children cope with trauma, was introduced by LBBY to teachers - Nominating candidates for national and international awards and honor lists - Nomination of an institution, organization for the IBBY-ASAHI award given by IBBY - A guide of selected books - A Book Vending Machine is another innovative project introduced by LBBY - Reading Corners For further and detailed information, please refer to our website www.lbby-lb.org
The Lebanese Board on books for Young People (LBBY) is a Local nonprofit organization, founded in 1974, license number 116/ad and affiliated with the International Board on Books for Young People (Ibby) that has 75 member countries with the headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.