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🌏 World literature for young people
🌏 Anti-racism through global reading
🌏 Recommending and connecting young readers with inclusive, diverse, global and translated literature
🌏 Year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth
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Find out more about all these fabulous translations and how these books came to travel into English over at the #ALA
www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
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And finally🎉congratulations 🎉 to the team behind
Home, published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Written and illustrated by Isabelle Simler and translated from French by Vineet Lal
#Batchelder #ALA #ALAYMA
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An honor title also for Johnny, the Sea, and Me - one of our faves from 2024!
published by Enchanted Lion Books
Written by Melba Escobar, illustrated by Elizabeth Builes and translated by Sara Lissa Paulson🥳
#worldkidlit
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🎉Congratulations to the creators and publishers of
Mr. Lepron’s Mystery Soup, published by Candlewick Studio
Written by Giovanna Zoboli, illustrated by Mariachiara Di Giorgio and translated from Italian by Denise Muir🎉
#WorldKidLit
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Congratulations to the #Batchelder honorees🎊
A Sleepless Night, published by @transitbooks.bsky.social
Written by Micaela Chirif, illustrated by Joaquín Camp and translated from Spanish by Jordan Landsman
#WorldKidLit #translation
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Oh and Rumi! Hadn't seen this before ... must get a copy! by award-winning Iranian-American artist Rashin Kheiriyeh
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Thank you for remembering to #namethetranslator! Super to see kids' books translated from French, Arabic, Swedish and Portuguese on your list :)
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Thanks for sharing! So many delights being published this year 😊
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Yes, lots of classics getting new translations lately!
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Is it for drizzling honey? a honey drizzler?
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That is very cool!