Presentation of the Poetry Recommendations for Children 2025

Since 2024, the poetry recommendations for children are published annually: a selection of eleven titles aimed at a reading audience between the ages of three and eleven - and of course at readers of all ages. 

The recommendations will be announced on World Poetry Day, 21 March 2025.
They will be presented at the Leipzig Book Fair on 28 March:

11.30 - 13.30, Hall 4, Forum Literature and Audio, A100 / Talk & Reading
16.00 - 16.30, Hall 3, Forum Sachbuch Hall 2, C505 / Teaching Poetry in Schools & Kindergarten

With Ines Galling, Matthias Kniep and poets from the recommended volumes.

Six literary institutions have joined forces for this project, which aims to make children's poetry more visible in all its diversity and thus also support authors, publishers, libraries and bookshops.
Above all, however, the recommendations aim to convey a desire for poetic language games and thus promote language acquisition and reading skills. 

You will find all information from 21 March 2025 at www.lyrik-empfehlungen.de 

The "Poetry Recommendations for Children" are a cooperation project between the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, the Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek, the Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett, the Haus für Poesie, the Deutscher Bibliotheksverband, and the Deutscher Literaturfonds.