BIBIANA, the International House of Art for Children and the Slovak Board on Books for Young People award Ľudmila Podjavorinská Plaque 2019 to Akoss Ofori-Mensah for promoting the values of Slovak book culture for children and youth in the international space, especially in the African countries, and for an extraordinary cooperation with the Slovak Section of IBBY, Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava and IBBY Institute Bratislava.