The Polish Book Institute

Today, in the Multimedia Library for Children and Youth no. XXXI in Warsaw, a press conference devoted to the new edition of the Polish Book Institute's campaign ‘Small Book - Great Man’ took place. The conference was attended by Professor Piotr Gliński, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Dariusz Jaworski, the Director of the Polish Book Institute, as well as the ambassadors of the campaign: Joanna Koroniewska-Dowbor and Maciej Dowbor. Everyone emphasised the benefits of reading together with children, expressing the hope that such a wide campaign will contribute to the improvement of reading in Poland.

By mid-2019, 360,000 books with poems for children will be distributed in maternity wards around the country. Pierwsze wiersze dla... (‘First Poems for...’), published by the Polish Book Institute, include the works of Julian Tuwim, Jan Brzechwa, Joanna Papuzińska, and Ludwik Jerzy Kern, to name a few.