International Children's Book Day

Children's books...Every year, on Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, April 2 is International Children’s Book Day.

Since 1967, on the initiative and decision of the International Council for Children's Book, on April 2, the birthday of the great storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the whole world celebrates the International Children's Book Day, thereby emphasizing the continuing role of children's books in shaping the spiritual and intellectual image of new generations of the Earth.

Many children's books are collected at the Miniature Book Museum in Baku.

For more than twenty years, its creator, Zarifa Salakhova, has collected this rare collection of 4,000 mini-books from 47 countries.

Zarifa Salakhova, Director of the Museum of Miniature Books: In 5 years I have published 30 miniature books related to our literature, art and music. Among them are many books devoted to children: fairy tales, stories, poems and much more.

The museum contains books published in Russia in the pre-revolutionary period and in Soviet times. Miniature editions of Ukraine and Belarus, Moldova and Central Asia, Georgia.

From Azerbaijani literature – works of classics – Nizami, Nasimi, Vagif, Fizuli, Fatali Akhundov.