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.

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. 

World Kid Lit Month 2022: Day 15: A book translated from a language you don't know

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

The sea-ringed world: sacred stories of the Americas.

María García Esperón; illus Amanda Mijangos; trans David Bowles.

Presents a collection of stories from nations and cultures from Argentina to Alaska.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA: 

Dancing hands: how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln. 

By Margarita Engle; Rafael López. 

As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: PERU

PERU: 

Zonia's rain forest. 

By Juana Martinez-Neal; Asháninka translation by Arlynder Sett Gaspar Paulino. 

Zonia's home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer?

World Kid Lit Month 2021: PARAGUAY

PARAGUAY: 

Ada's violin: the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay. 

By Susan Hood; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. 

The extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: MEXICO

MEXICO: 

The sea-ringed world: sacred stories of the Americas. 

By María García Esperón; illustrated by Amanda Mijangos; translated by David Bowles. 

Presents a collection of stories from nations and cultures across North and South America, the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it, from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: COLOMBIA

COLOMBIA: 

Juana & Lucas. 

By Juana Medina. 

A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: CHILE

CHILE: 

The dreamer. 

By Pam Muñoz Ryan; drawings by Peter Sís. 

A fictionalised biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: BRAZIL

BRAZIL: 

For the love of soccer! 

By Pelé; illustrated by Frank Morrison. 

The three-time World Cup champion celebrates the kick and thrill of his favourite sport, recounting his inspiring rise to fame as illustrations depict his life and the story of a young athlete's efforts to follow in his hero's speedy footsteps.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: ARGENTINA

ARGENTINA: 

Is it big or is it little? 

By Claudia Rueda. 

A cat and mouse chase demonstrates such concepts as deep and shallow, scary and scared, and beginning and end.