World Kid Lit Month 2023: Children's Poetry Book

Children's Poetry Book: 

Roar squeak purr: a New Zealand treasury of animal poems.
Edited by Paula Green; illustrated by Jenny Cooper.

Penguin Random House, 2022.

Paula Green is a doyen of Aotearoa poetry, especially of that written for children. And, of that written by children. 

There is so much to love about this book.

The production values. 

The range of poets.

The range of poems.

The illustrations.

But, what I really, really, really love - is the inclusion of the children's poems. 

The children are Poets, and they are treated with the respect and care as the adult, professional, poets. 

The children's poems are included on merit - and they more than stand up to that. 

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 2021: HAITI

HAITI: 

Haiti my country. 

Poems by Haitian schoolchildren; illustrated by Rogé; translated by Solange Messier. 

Features poems inspired by the Haitian landscape written by students from Camp Perrin, Haiti.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: EAST TIMOR (Timor-Leste)

EAST TIMOR (Timor-Leste): 

The boy and the crocodile: the legend of East Timor. 

Illustrated by children from the Familia Hope Orphanage. 

A retelling of the legend concerning the creation of Timor-Leste: a little boy's kindness to a crocodile and the crocodiles repayment of the debt.

World Kid Lit Month 2021: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: 

Zlata's diary. 

By Zlata Filipovic; with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni; translated with notes by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric. 

Zlata began her diary just before her eleventh birthday, when there was peace in Sarajevo and her life was that of a bright, intelligent, carefree young girl. Her early entries describe her friends, her new skis, her family, her grades at school, her interest in joining the Madonna Fan Club. And then, on television, she sees the bombs falling on Dubrovnik. Though repelled by the sight, Zlata cannot conceive of the same thing happening in Sarajevo. When it does, the whole tone of her diary changes.