Common activities at the Oepli
The ClijCAT (
www.clijcat.cat) is one of the four organisations in the OEPLI (
www.oepli.org), its acronym in Spanish meaning the Spanish Organisation for Children´s and Young Adults´ books. The other three are: Galix (
www.galix.org), Galtzagorri Elkartea (
www.galtzagorri.eus) and Consejo General del Libro (
www.oepli.org/esp/quienintegra.htm﹟uno). The OEPLI collectively organises a series of activities periodically. These include awards for literature and illustration, congresses and international shows on various aspects of children´s and young adults´ books, as well as annual celebratory events.
On 2nd April each year, the anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen´s birth, the whole world pays homage to children´s books.
The ClijCAT coordinates the celebrations and disseminates
information to participating libraries and bookshops in Catalonia, the
Balearic Islands and the region of Valencia.
The great international exhibition of illustrators of children´s and young adults´ books from around the world. (
http://www.bib-slovakia.sk/)
Participating illustrators from the Catalan speaking territories in the last exhibition (2007):
Anna Mongay, Carmela Mayor, Montse Tobilla, Lluís Farré, Tàssies, Mabel Piérola, Cristina Duran, Gerard Miquel Rosselló, Purificación Hernández, Aitana Carrasco, Paula Alenda, Pep Brocal, Txell Darné.
Congresses
Trobades d'especialistes en els aspectes més
diversos relacionats amb el llibre infantil i juvenil.
Las ponencias, comunicaciones y la memoria del III Congreso
Ibérico de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, celebrado en Valencia se pueden
consultar en:
www.clijcat.cat.
The best children´s and young adults´ books of the past two years in terms of text, illustration and translation.
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=270&L=3 Books in Catalan included in the List of Honour (2008):
Illustration: JOVÉ, Joseph M.; THA. L’home del
sac (The Man with the Bag), La Galera/Cercle de Lectors.
Translation: BROBÉTY, Anne Lise. El temps de les paraules
en veu baixa (The Time of Words in a Low Voice). Translation by Pau-Joan Hernández, Barcanova.
The ‘Nobel’ of children´s and young adults´ literature. To find the candidates:
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273&L=3
Prestigious state awards for literary creation and illustration.
Activities and advice for other organisations
CATALAN MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY:
‘From
Hercules to Superman. Gods and heroes of Greco-Romano mythology’.
The itinerant exhibition was opened in March 2004 and can currently
be seen in the Salvador Vilaseca Museum of Archaelogy in Reus until
4th April 2009.
BARCELONA´S LIBRARIES: ‘What do we read?’. A meeting space directed
at parents and educators, where a children´s literature specialist from
ClijCAT presents and recommends selected books based on themes found
in a child´s world (friendship, school, tolerance, fears etc.).
BARCELONA´S
LIBRARIES: ‘What do we read?’. A
meeting space directed at parents and educators, where a children´s
literature specialist from ClijCAT presents and recommends selected
books based on themes found in a child´s world (friendship, school,
tolerance, fears etc.).
GUSTAVO ROLDÁN 
