Lorenz Graham's book,
Song of the Boat, has been selected by the
International Children's Digital Library to represent the United States
in its exciting new collection of quality children's literature from
around the world.
The International Children's Digital
Library is a research project funded by the National Science
Foundation. Currently, the library is showcasing around 300 books from
around the world, with an additional 600 about to be posted.
These books represent over 26 different languages.
The library was launched November, 2002 at the Library of Congress in
Washington, D.C. The primary goal of the project is to study how
children relate to digital material.
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is dedicated to showcasing
the best in children's literature from around the world.
In order to achieve this goal, The
ICDL's is building relationships around the world that help identify
quality books
reflective of each country's outstanding children's literature both
historic and contemporary. In each country, the ICDL identifies the
appropriate organizations best suited to accomplish these tasks. The
ICDL believes that an important collection is built with a strong
selection process and relies on partnerships with national libraries,
International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) representatives and other Institutes for Children's Literature. It
is hoped that through these collaborative relationships that the ICDL
collection will continue to grow and reach its goal of 10,000 quality
children's books in over 100 languages.
