The U.S. chapter of the International Board for Books for Young People (USBBY) has chosen its 2025 Outstanding International Books featuring children's and YA titles published in 2024 that originated or were first published in another country. To see the list of the 40 titles, which come from 23 countries, and are listed by age category, click here.
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Irene Hasenburg Butter has been honored with the Anne Frank Award for Human Dignity and Tolerance, presented to a person who "has demonstrated a commitment to confronting intolerance, antisemitism, racism, or discrimination while upholding freedom and equal rights to promote an open, pluralistic, and democratic society." Butter, the author of From Holocaust to Hope: Shores Beyond Shores (Leapfrog Press), will receive the award in March.