Quality Literature

The Gingerbread Guild selects works that emphasize humanitarian values and possess an international character.

The Guild supports literacy by animating interactive workshops and by donating books to those children living in difficult, fragile environments.

The Guild distributes new works by approved authors recognized for their creative talent and social engagement. The text and illustrations of these works cultivate a sense of wonderment in the reader, a prime source of creativity and learning.

Selection Criteria

Whatever the type of story favoured by the author, the work must be both rich and accessible and propose to the reader numerous occasions which nourish the imagination and enrich knowledge. The young reader should be made sensitive to images that inspire and that contain no form of sexism, racism or intolerance.

The Guild publishes within its quarterly bulletin The Gingerbread Slice
a column entitled «Gingerbread the bookworm».

The column recommends a number of carefully selected books chosen for their literary, educational and social qualities. They will please adult and child reading together or a child reading alone. They are rated on the basis of the child's reading maturity rather than his age.

Apprentice reader


Explorer reader


Initiated reader