The Polish Book Institute

On Wednesday, in Zadar, Croatia, one of the largest and most important scientific conferences on children's and youth books as well as the promotion of reading among the youngest started. The event is attended by representatives of several dozen countries, who together discuss the role of the literary canon in shaping the young audience and their involvement in cultural life.

An international conference on children's literature, The Child and the Book Conference, opens today in Zadar, Croatia. This year, the conference has been organised for the fourteenth time, this time under the slogan "Beyond the Canon (of Children's Literature)".