We are offering a post-congress tour to Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace and museum in Odense on Thursday, Sept. 11. You will find the details on the page Social Program in the section Information, as well as on the page for Registration where you may register your participation in the tour.
See also the pages Tourist Information and Excursions in the section Information.
IBBY Norway invites you to a seminar as part of an excursion by ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo. See below.
Experience the hospitality and the children's book world of the Nordic countries
In general, we would advice participants to organize themselves a visit to the other Nordic countries, because organized tours from Denmark that are guaranteed not to be cancelled, will stop in August. Besides, especially for participants coming from other continents, it is most likely cheaper to add such a visit as an extension to the flight to Copenhagen, or arrange the route via one of the other countries, including a stopover.
Anyway, we are looking at the possibility of arranging a trip to Stockholm of 2-3 nights before the congress. Unfortunately, practically all hotels have been booked by a big conference during the weekend after the congress.
And also a post-congress tour, by ship overnight through the magnificent Oslo Fjord, to Oslo and further to the IBBY DOCUMENTATION CENTRE OF BOOKS FOR DISABLED YOUNG PEOPLE. Meanwhile, you may check out prices and schedule of the cruise at www.dfds.dk
If you will consider a trip from Stockholm to Helsinki/Finland, the Åland Islands or Tallinn/Estonia, have a look at www.tallinksilja.com - the website of the ferryline between Sweden, Åland and Finland.
You may also want to contact travel agencies with a special focus on the Nordic countries, e.g. the following: www.robinson.dk which has offices in Denmark, Norway and France, www.nordicvisitor.com which has offices in Reykjavík, Oslo and Stockholm, and/or the USA-based www.scantours.com . All of them arrange independent travels as well as package tours.
The following suggestions of what to see have been made by the IBBY section of that particular country. You are welcome to enquire the section for more advices and local contacts:
thorbjorg.karlsdottir@reykjavik.is
Kerstin
Aronsson: ka@kabusabocker.se
IBBY Norway invites you
IBBY Norway –Barnebokforum,
Board Member Marit Hassel
Olav Nygards veg 137
0688 Oslo
Phone +47 995 68 013
E-post: mhassel@start.no
Org nr 975 545 547
To participants at the
IBBY 2008 World Congress
Oslo , 05.07.08
We would like to remind you of our Post congress seminar in Norway
IBBY Norway offers a seminar on Books for children with disabilities at the IBBY Documentation Centre on Friday September 12th. 2008.
Please register at barnebokforum@hotmail.com before July 8th if you want to make use of our ferry and hotel reservations. If you arrange your journey yourself, please let us know that you are coming before August 25 th .
Programme:
1130: Welcome by IBBY Norway and Heidi C. Boiesen. Coffee/tea1145: Challenges in making books for people with disability. By author Anette Diesen and Editor Else Krogh-Hansen at Solum Publishers1245: Helping the book and the reader meet: The concept of “Reading Representative”. By Marianne Vanem from the organisation Books for Everyone.1345: Coffe/tea + snack1400: Orientation on the activities of IBBY Documentation Centre as well as a guided tour through the centre, by Heidi C. Boiesen.1515: Short orientation on the Tordis Ørjasæter Fundation. Return to accommodations.1900: Dinner (for those interested)How to get there and what to pay
Attending the seminar is free , and may well be combined with visiting other parts of Norway . IBBY Norway has arranged reservations for hotels and for the overnight ferry PEARL OF SCANDINAVIA from Copenhagen to Oslo on Thursday with return to Copenhagen on Sunday evening. We will also arrange for transportation from the ferry to Haug School and Ibby Documentation Centre. The ferry is NOK 1470 per four bed compartment + tax NOK 80 per person. You decide if you will have the compartment for yourself or if you will share it to make it cheaper.
Timetable as follows:
Date
Check-in
Departure
Arrival
Arrival date
11.09.2008
Copenhagen - Oslo
15.30-16.30
17.00
09.30
12.09.2008
Ship: PEARL OF SCANDINAVIA
Departure from Dampfaergevej 30, Copenhagen Ø
14.09.2008
Oslo - Copenhagen
15.30-16.30
17.00
09.30
15.09.2008
Ship: PEARL OF SCANDINAVIA
Departure from Vippetangen, Utstikker 2, Oslo
Accomodation in Oslo . You can choose between
Thon Hotell Munch at NOK 795 per night per person. http://www.thonhotels.no/munch
or Radisson SAS Scandinavia at NOK 1295 per night per person. http://www.radissonsas.com/g_no_sk_brand_osl
There is also a cheaper and less central youth hostel Haraldsheim from NOK 260 per night per person. This must be ordered directly at http://www.haraldsheim.no/ .
You are most welcome!
For Ibby Norway
Marit Hassel
To find ideas for sightseing, see Norway below.
Welcome!
Finland
The Åland Islands and the City Library of Mariehamn
Take a boat trip either from Finland (Helsinki or Turku) or from Stockholm, Sweden, and see the Finnish archipelago. You can spend a day or two at the Åland Islands and deepen your knowledge of the widely known Finnish public library system. Scandinavians, and especially Finns, are the most prolific library users in Europe. Nearly all public libraries offer users free internet access.
Contacts: tom.eckerman@mariehamn.aland.fi
www.mnbibl.aland.fi/eng/index.html
The Moominworld (Muumimaailma)
The Moominworld, based on the characters created by Tove Jansson, is a lovely themepark in the city of Naantali, Southwest Finland. The park is located in an island where you can meet all Moominworld inhabitants, visit the blue Moominhouse, see plays at Theatre Emma, wander along the forest paths, play and enjoy your day with you family.
Contact: http://www.muumimaailma.fi/englanti/index.html
The Finnish Institute for Children's Literature
The Finnish Institute for Children's Literature (SNI) is a documentation, information and research centre, which is located in Tampere, Southern Finland. The collection of the institute covers over 60.000 volumes of children's books and 4.700 reference books. The library of the institute is focused on collecting Finnish children's and juvenile books and their translations, but it has a special collection of Estonian children's books as well. The institute has also a collection of original works by the illustrators Camilla Mickwitz, Maija Karma, Riikka Juvonen, Sari Airola, Markus Majaluoma, Hannu Taina and Riitta Uusitalo. These works are lent to different exhibitions.
Contact: http://www.tampere.fi/kirjasto/sni/sneinfo.htm
Iceland
Are you planning to visit Iceland before or after the IBBY congress? It's a little over two hours flight from Copenhagen and you would never forget the experience. IBBY Iceland suggests that you visit one or several of the following sights.
If you want to meet writers or illustrators in Iceland, you are welcome to contact Guðlaug Richter, gudlaugri@simnet.is and we will try to arrange a meeting.
Reykjavík City Library
The main library's new premises are in an old downtown warehouse by the harbour. Neighbours are the Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík Archives and Reykjavík Photo Museum. The library occupies 2,900 sq m of its own and there is an impressive collection of children's books. Computers for the public with Internet access are 7. The library has a “Hot Spot” i.e. people can bring their own laptops and access the Internet for free. More information on the library's home page .
Contact:
Thorbjörg Karlsdóttir - thorbjorg.karlsdottir@reykjavik.is
- if you want to get in touch with fellow librarians in Iceland during
your visit.
The Ghost Centre in Stokkseyri
The Ghost Centre in Stokkseyri is a ghost museum that features all of Iceland's most famous ghosts. Guests walk through the ghost-maze, where they will experience the stories in the environment where the spooky tales actually happened. The stories can be listened to in English, German, French, Scandinavian, Japanese, Russian and Icelandic. In the reception area, guests will find a Ghost Bar with drinks and a fabulous view of the ocean, not to mention the Brennivín-ghost.
See the centre's home page for more information.
The National Museum of Iceland
The National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik has reopened its doors after extensive refurbishment and is now a modernised museum offering a wide variety of services to its guests. The role of the museum is to increase and relay knowledge of Icelandic cultural heritage, from the nation´s earliest settlement through to the modern day.
More
on the museum's
home page .
Gljúfrasteinn – Home of Halldór Laxness
Gljúfrasteinn was the home and workplace of Halldór Laxness (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955) and his family for more than half a century. It has now been opened to the public as a museum, unchanged from when Laxness lived there.
Visit the museum's home page for more information.
The Culture House
The Culture House is the National Centre for Cultural Heritage. It is located in the center of Reykjavík in a listed building, and its use today takes into consideration the building's protected status and historical value. Exhibitions in the Culture House emphasise in particular the history and culture of Iceland, the country's independence and governance, as well as its ancient and modern literature.
Many of Iceland's national treasures are on display in the Culture House's featured exhibition Medieval Manuscripts – Eddas and Sagas .
See the Culture House's home page .
Travel – The Golden Circle
If you want to take a day tour outside of Reykjavík, the Golden Circle Tour is highly recommended. It takes about 8 hours, the bus picks you up at your hotel. Locations visited: Hveragerði greenhouse village, Kerið volcanic crater, Gullfoss waterfall, Geysir hot spring area and Þingvellir National Park.
You can book the tour in advance, see Reykjavík Excursion's home page .
Fun things to do!
There are a lot of fun things to do in Iceland: Horseback riding, golf, glacier tours, whale watching, etc. For further information on the fun things, go to the Icelandic Tourist Board .
Relax
in the Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon is one of Iceland's most unique and popular attractions,
founded on a unique source of geothermal seawater that originates in Iceland's
extreme environment. Guests enjoy bathing and relaxing in its geothermal
seawater, known for its positive effects on the skin. A visit to the spa
promotes harmony between body, mind and spirit, and enables one to soak
away the stresses of modern life.
Visit the Blue Lagoon's homepage for more information.
Lastly, if you are interested, you can order Icelandic children's books in English at http://www.randburg.com/is/mm/children.html .
Norway
The IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People
The IBBY Documentation Centre is a must for any IBBY member visiting Norway.
The Centre is situated in the rural community of Bærum at the outskirts of Oslo, at the Haug School and Resource Centre, which is a special school for young people with autism, multiple handicaps and/or learning disabilities, as well as a resource centre for parents, kindergartens and schools. The resource centre consists of the toy lending library for disabled or seriously ill children, the department for schoolbooks, instructional materials and educational games and toys, and the library of which the IBBY Documentation Centre is an important part.
Through the network of IBBY contact persons and publishers, the Centre's international book collection relating to young people with special needs is kept up-to-date. The permanent collection holds over 4000 titles in about 40 languages.
The IBBY Documentation Centre issues an annotated catalogue / international travel exhibition launched biennially at the Bologna International Children's Bookfair: Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. The books are regularly displayed in connection with national and international conferences, book fairs and exhibitions.
Immediately after the Congress in Copenhagen, IBBY Norway will offer a mini seminar in cooperation with the Documentation Centre.
A guided tour by leader Heidi Cortner Boiesen will also be available.
Contact IBBY Norway at barnebokforum@hotmail.com or Heidi Cortner Boiesen ( heidicbo@online.no ), the IBBY Documentation Centre, Haug skole- og ressurssenter. Address: Haugtunveien 3, 1356 Bekkestua.
Date: September 11 or 12, 2008
The Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille
NLB with its modern facilities will also be available for visitors. The library has arranged writing camps for seeing impaired youth from the Nordic countries two times, and are more than willing to share their experiences.
Contact IBBY Norway at barnebokforum@hotmail.com or NLB librarian Eli Frisvold: eli.frisvold@nlb.no , Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille.
Address: Observatoriegt. 1 B, 0254 Oslo.
Date: September 11 or 12, 2008
The Norwegian Children's Books Institute
The Institute and the National Library are situated at the same premises as The Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille, though with a different street address. We strongly recommend a visit there to see the collection of Norwegian children's books and to hear about their education of children's writers .
Opening Hours for the Children's Books Institute are Thursday 1200 – 1900, Monday and Wednesday from 0900 – 1600.
E-mail: post@barnebokintituttet.no
Address: Henrik Ibsens gt 110, 0255 Oslo (Impossible street numbers, you might want to look for Observatoriegaten instead!)
The International Museum of Children's Art
The Museum was established in 1986 by The Foundation of Children's History, Art and Culture. Film director Rafael Goldin (1920-1994) and his wife, Doctor of Medicine, Alla Goldin, conceived and developed the idea of the Museum and collection. The three basic functions of the Museum are to collect, preserve and promote children's art worldwide. We especially recommend the “From trash to toys”-part.
Guided tours available on Wednesdays and Thursdays – phone + 47 22691777 .
E-mail post@barnekunst.no , homepage http://www.barnekunst.no
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 0 9.30-14.00 and Sunday 11.00-16.00. Address: Lille Frøensvei 4, 0371 Oslo
Outside Oslo
Kristiansand Zoo holds a very strong place in the mind of Norwegian children. The chimpanzee Julius, brought up in a human family, was the pet of the entire nation in the 1980'es. The midnight theatrical play Captain Sabletooth is very popular among pre-school children, as is Cardamom Town, based on Torbjørn Egner's story. It even has it's own postal code.
Homepage: http://www.dyreparken.com .
Address: Kristiansand Dyrepark AS, 4609 Kardemomme by.
Lillehammer with Maihaugen Open air museum http://www.maihaugen.no and Nobel Prize Winners Sigrid Undset 's house and garden Bjerkebæk (Address: Gamle Nordseterveg 1, entrance from Sigrid Undsetsveg, see also http://www.maihaugen.no/default.aspx?id=5367 ) and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ( http://www.maihaugen.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=6450 )
Bergen – the Leprosy Museum
Did you know that it was the Norwegian Gerhard Armauer Hansen who discovered the lepra bacteria in 1873? Among other beautiful and interesting sights in Bergen, you can visit the Leprosy Museum at St. Jørgens Hospital.
E-mail: lepra@lepra.no .
Address: Kong Oscars gate 59, 5806 Bergen
Norway in a Nutshell
To see more of the mountains and fjords, find your favourite roundtrip here: http://www.norwaynutshell.com/default.asp
Sweden
Are you planning to visit Sweden, our Swedish IBBY friends suggest that you visit one or several of following sights:
VIMMERBY, Småland
Visit Vimmerby – the town of Astrid Lindgren. For those who have read The Children of Bullerbyn, Kalle Blomkvist, Madicken, Pippi Longstockings or Emil, a visit to Vimmerby is a must. It is easy to recognise many of the scenes she described in her books. The famous author was born here in 1907, and she always returned, despite living for more than 75 years in Stockholm; and now she lies buried here. (457 km from Copenhagen.)
www.vimmerby.se
HALMSTAD
Halmstad lies in the middle of the Swedish west coast 185 km from Copenhagen, on the route towards Göteborg (frequent train service). During the Summer, thousands of tourists visit the 700-year-old city with its long beaches, city centre streets and squares.
The
city library is entirely new, and the building was in 2006 awarded with
a honorouble architectural prize – Byggnadsnämndens arkitekturpris.
The City Library
Axel Olsons gata 1
302 27 Halmstad
Tel: 035 - 13 71 81
Fax: 035 -13 71 64
stadsbiblioteket@halmstad.se
www.halmstad.se/prod/halmstad/bibliotek/dalis2.nsf
GÖTEBORG
Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden's second largest city, is situated on the Swedish west coast and has a population of almost half a million. The city has a distinct maritime atmosphere, with a mixture of older, well-preserved districts and exciting new developments. (318 km from Copenhagen, frequent train service.)
City Library
Visit the City Library where at the moment they are working on enlargement plans. The ceremonial cut might have been taken when we meet in September 2008.
Contact: Eva Fred, eva.fred@stadsbiblioteket.goteborg.se
Kabusa böcker
Kabusa böcker is a smaller publishing house in Gothenburg, spezialised in Nordic litterature. The publisher, Kerstin Aronsson, invites you to visit the publishing house to learn more about publishing in Sweden. The office is situated in the very fine district of Gothenburg called Klippan.
www.kabusabocker.se
Contact: Kerstin Aronsson, ka@kabusabocker.se
Barnboksbildens Vänner / Friends of the Picture Books
A supporting society that buys and collects original illustrations from children's literature, housed at the Göteborg Museum of Art. A visit to the collection can easily be combined with a visit to the City Library.
www.konstmuseum.goteborg.se
Contact: Margaretha Dahlström, mg.dahlstrom@comhem.se
STOCKHOLM
Stockholm is a very beautiful capital as it is built on 14 islands around a large and well-preserved medieval city centre. Stockholm offers a wealth of museums, theatres, sights, attractions and events.
The Official Visitors Guide: www.stockholmtown.com (666 km from Copenhagen)
Junibacken
At Junibacken you can explore the worlds of Astrid Lindgren's well-loved books for children. Play in Pippi Longstocking's house, the Villa Villekulla, and meet a whole host of other characters such as Alfie Atkins, Old Man Festus and Mercury the Cat. As the storybooks come to life, you will marvel and play, learn and discover.
www.junibacken.se
Kulturhuset – Kids' Rooms
On the
fourth floor of the big Kulturhuset building at Sergels Torg, you will
find Kids' Rooms, where you can read and borrow books, paint, listen to
a story or sing. The library is especially for children. Most books are
in Swedish, but there is also books in Arabic, English, Finnish, French,
German, Russian and Spanish.
There are three rooms which are especially designed for children of different
ages, with different physical needs and abilities. The kids will find
hideaways, hammocks where they can lie and read peacefully, and exciting
things to look at.
Contact person: ingrid.kallstrom@kulturhuset.stockholm.se - who is also a participant in the congress.
www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se
Svenska barnboksinstitutet, SBI (The Swedish Institute for Children's Books)
Svenska barnboksinstitutet, SBI (The Swedish Institute for Children's Books), is a special library open to the public and an information centre for children's and young people's literature. The aim is to promote this kind of literature in Sweden, as well as Swedish children's and young people's literature abroad.
www.sbi.kb.se
Contact: Jan Hansson, j an.hansson@sbi.kb.se (spokesman of IBBY Sweden)