The best 7 books for young readers
The Best 7 Books for Young Readers is a list of the best for children's and young adult literature .
General
The list The best 7 books for young readers has been compiled every month since October 1994 by a jury on behalf of Deutschlandfunk and Focus .
The list contains literature for children and young people from the fields of fiction , poetry , non-fiction and picture books . Ute Wegmann and Hajo Steinert present the best list on a monthly basis in the “ Büchermarkt ” program on Deutschlandfunk . The program is primarily aimed at adults and provides a table of contents and an analysis of the books. The book with the most approval will be presented in detail and commented on by a member of the jury who has chosen this book. The Focus published this list in its print edition and in its online offer. The initiative of the federal government and the federal states "Reading in Germany" adopts this list as a proposal list. Some publishers also use the list as advertising.
The jury
The jury for the selection of the best 7 books for young readers consists of 29 qualified people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The jurors are all active in the field of youth literature.
The jury consists of:
- Siggi Seuß (freelance journalist and translator, writes for Die Zeit )
- Roswitha Budeus-Budde (responsible editor of the children's and youth literature page of the Süddeutsche Zeitung )
- Tilman Spreckelsen (editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung )
- Hans-Heino Ewers (Professor of German Studies / Literary Studies with a focus on children's and youth literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main)
- Christiane Raabe (Director International Youth Library Munich)
- Maria Linsmann (since 1998 director of the picture book museum Burg Wissem of the city of Troisdorf)
- Otto Brunken (private lecturer at the department for reading research and children's and youth media - University of Cologne )
- Jens Thiele (Director of the Research Center for Children's and Youth Literature at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg )
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- ↑ dradio.de Display of the current winners of The Best 7 Books for Young Readers
- ↑ The best 7 - newly published books for children and young people | Reading in Germany. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
- ↑ List of members and information about the jury can be obtained from Deutschlandfunk on request
Web links
- Deutschlandfunk: "Books for Young Readers" presents "The Best 7" at the beginning of the month. (MP3 recording there too.)