'Beginning in 2006 USBBY has selected an honor list of international books for young people. The USBBY OutstandingInternational Books List is published each year in the February issue of School Library Journal and as a bookmark.
'The Outstanding International Books (OIB) committee is charged with selecting international books that are deemed most outstanding of those published during the calendar year. For the purposes of this honor list, the term "international book" is used to describe a book published or distributed in the United States that originated or was first published in a country other than the U.S.'
Source: USBBY website, http://www.usbby.org/
Sighted: 15/02/2012
