Friday, 30 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 30: YA fiction from a country where English isn't the main language

Bingo: YA fiction from a country where English isn't the main language

This book betrays my brother  By Kagiso Lesego Molope





Thursday, 29 September 2022

World Lit Lit Month 2022: Day 29: A book from the Middle East

Bingo: A book from the Middle East

The servant by Fatima Sharafeddine From an email from a customer: Almost one month ago, you had recommended many books after I had filled the forum for a librarian to choose books for me.
I went with (Faten the servant), and it was the first book in my entire life that I had read. I was so attached to the reader that I felt so upset when I read the last line and flipped to the next page, hoping for some more.
I might have found it interesting because it talked about a middle eastern girl, and that was just who I am. Could you recommend more books of the same type as that book? Representation matters!






Wednesday, 28 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 28: A book from South Asia

Bingo: A book from South Asia:

Sita's Ramayana Text by Samhita Arni; art by Moyna Chitrakar






Tuesday, 27 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 27: A book translated from a language you don't know.

Bingo: A book translated from a language you don't know.

Bicycling to the moon 
By Timo Parvela; illus Virpi Talvitie; trans from Finnish Ruth Urbom





Monday, 26 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 26: A book by a creator of colour

Bingo: A book by a creator of colour

The things she's seen
By Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina.
This is a tale of horrific acts, told gently, and through the spaces. Through allegory and metaphor.
Through traditional paths.
To say much more would be to ruin it.


Sunday, 25 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 25: Around the world

Bingo: Around the world:

Under the spell of the moon: art for children from the world's great illustrators

Edited by Patricia Aldana; texts translated by Stan Dragland







Saturday, 24 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 24: A book from Southeast Asia

Bingo: A book from Southeast Asia:

The tiny boy and other tales from Indonesia 

Retold by Murti Bunanta; illustrated by Hardiyono.










Friday, 23 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 23: Non-fiction for younger readers, translated from another language

Bingo: Non-fiction for younger readers, translated from another language:

Outside: discovering animals 

By Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Inês Teixeira Do Rosário, Bernardo P. Carvalho; translated by Lucy Greaves.






Thursday, 22 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: day 22: A book from South America

Bingo: A book from South America:

Antonia: a journey to a new home 

By Dipacho.










Wednesday, 21 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 21: Graphic novel translated from another language

Bingo: Graphic novel translated from another language:

I remember Beirut

By Zeina Abirached; art by Zeina Abirached; translation by Edward Gauvin







Tuesday, 20 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 20: Middle grade fiction translated from another language

Bingo: Middle grade fiction translated from another language:

The raven's children By Yulia Yakoleva; translated from the Russian by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.








Monday, 19 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 19: A book from Africa

Bingo: A book from Africa:

B is for baby

By Atinuke and Angela Brooksbank.






Sunday, 18 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 18: A book from North or Central Asia

Bingo: A book from North or Central Asia:

Soul lanterns 

By Shaw Kuzki; translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri











Saturday, 17 September 2022

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 17: Children's poetry translated from another language

Bingo: Children's poetry translated from another language:

Doggy slippers: poems

By Jorge Luján (with the contribution of Latin American children); translated by Elisa Amado; pictures by Isol.