This gift–going into more than 44,000 classrooms–is part of the “I’ll Give You a Story” campaign being supported by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , Germany’s publishers and booksellers association, in support of World Book Day 2022. The federal states’ various cultural ministries are supporting the program with funding to finance the printing of the book vouchers. The conference of ministers of education is therefore happy to support initiatives to promote reading, such as World Book Day and the ‘I’ll Give You a Story’ campaign. “I hope that as many children and young people as possible will take advantage of these offers and discover the joy of reading.”Many events and parallel programming are planned for Germany’s World Book Day, and more information is available here. More from Publishing Perspectives on World Book Day is here, more on the climate crisis and publishing is here, more on children’s books is here, and more on the Germany publishing market is here.

Source: CNN April 20, 2022 19:04 UTC