Children from around the world read their award-winning stories and speak about what inspired them – and find out if they won bronze, silver or gold.

‘You’ll not get malaria or easily Go Native: but you may well contract bronchitis and learn to Muddle Through’

Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Laureate for Peace 2014.
© Antonio Olmos

Millions of illustrated children’s books written by Idries Shah have been distributed across Afghanistan since 2006 by our friends and partners at Hoopoe Books. With Hoopoe’s support, ISF is now gearing up to distribute its own editions to Afghan children. Our aim is to put at least one copy of our books into every Afghan child’s hands. By doing so we hope to inspire a new generation.