Activities

Ricochet (www.ricochet-jeunes.org) is a free reference platform and online magazine dedicated to francophone children and youth literature. The platform lists a significant portion of the current francophone editorial production for children and young readers published in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Quebec and francophone countries of Africa. About a third of the featured books are reviewed by […]

The Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media ISJM develops and runs various projects to promote reading among school-age children. These school projects provide playful encounters with books, to promote reading for pleasure and create and maintain a positive image of the written word. BouC’S gives schoolchildren a playful, social and cultural introduction to the […]

“Tell Me a Story” is a family literacy program initiated in 2006 by the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media SIKJM. The program consists of free storytelling sessions for families with migrant backgrounds with children between two and five years. The sessions promote native tongue language and literacy. This project aims to raise awareness […]

The Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media SIKJM developed two informative and effective guides, which provide families with helpful tools to encourage their child’s language, literacy and reading development. All ideas are easy to integrate in the daily life of families. The guide “Growing Up with Stories” provides parents with toddlers and kindergarten age […]

Since 2006 Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media SIKJM runs a professional training program to teach how to foster language and reading skills at children between the age of 0 and 6 years. Students learn to encourage and guide caregivers in kindergartens, nursery schools, libraries and social centers in how to create and preserve […]

Nursery rhymes and songs are a wonderful way to experience the joy of language and rhythm from an early age. They form the basis for a healthy language development and later on reading for pleasure. The “Rhythm and Rhyme” database of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media SIKJM offers access to this rich […]

The Swiss Children’s and Youth Book Award honors annually an outstanding publication in any literary genres: picture books, children’s and youth books, non-fiction books or comics. An independent jury nominates five titles from the submitted publications for the shortlist, which is annonced in March, and the winner is selected from that list. During the Solothurn […]

As a continuing education program, SIKJM teaches how to develop and implement stimulating and professional promotion programs for primary school aged students. The goal is to strengthen libraries as a place of playful and creative mediation centre for children by training new literature promoters. Provided with background knowledge on contemporary children’s literature, on existing literature […]

During 2015-2017, Kitabistan organized the “Reading Club” for young people to enhance their understanding of the books they read and to learn about the opinions of other readers on those books. In weekly discussions, readers chose a book and shared their views on the book and its author. These discussions were broadcast live on social […]