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A library of multilingual #picturebooks! 💙📚

Promoting #languages, #cultures, & #multilingual #literacy in #London schools & beyond: @hmking-linguist.bsky.social & Dr Gonzalo Pérez Andrade

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A gorgeous-looking #picturebook in #Portuguese:

Ninguém domia by Rafael Sica

www.rafaelsica.com.br/product-page...

#MultilingualLibrary #langsky 📚💙 #kidlit
Book cover in Portuguese Título: Ninguém dormia Autor: Rafael Sica
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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I Am on #Indigenous Land by Katrina M. Phillips, illustrated by Sam Zimmerman

"Whose land are you on?"

#kidlit #picturebook 📚💙
book cover of I Am on Indigenous Land by Katrina M. Phillips, illustrated by Sam Zimmerman Whose land are you on?
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Hello from your #MultilingualLibrary!

Did you know it's #WorldKidLitMonth?

Which #books are you reading & in which #languages?
World Kid Li Month Where will you travel by book? #WorldKidLitMonth
September 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Just a little #multilingual hello from our #MultilingualLibrary to you!!

Can anyone identify the #languages on this card spotted in #London and/or add their own?

🐦🐦 #langsky 📚💙
June 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This is a gorgeous #picturebook and one we have in our #MultilingualLibrary! 🤩

Issa Watanabe's illustrations are incredible & the #wordless format makes it perfect for #storytelling in any #language!

🐦🐦 #kidlit 💙📚
June 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Looking for a way for your #students or #children to connect with & share their home, heritage &/or foreign #languages?

Try @sabinelittle.bsky.social 's #30dayswildmultilingual! Find this & other #multilingual activities at: t.ly/G2rP7

#EAL 🗣💬 #30dayswild #langsky #edusky #ESL
30 Days Wild - MULTILINGUAL! June is the month for “30 Days Wild”, an encouragement to do something linked to nature every day. We have put together a special, multilingual 30 Days Wild Challenge. How many can you do? If you speak a language other than English, you can use that language to complete the daily challenges. If you don’t already speak another language, you can use a dictionary or ask your languages teacher to help you complete the challenge. We would love to see your efforts – email us at lostworlds@sheffield.ac.uk, or tag us on Twitter @LostWor_l_ds. 1. Go cloud spotting. Do you know how to say “cloud” in another language? Write it here: _______________________________ What does the cloud look like? Can you say that in another language? 2. See if you can find a daisy. What is a daisy called in different languages? Can you find three different translations? 3. Can you find a puddle to jump into? In English, we say that the sound water makes when you jump into a puddle is “splash”. What is that sound called in another language? 4.What birds can you see? What are they called? What are they called in another language? 5.Look for shapes in nature. Try to find at least a circle, a triangle, and a square. How do you say these in another language?
June 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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An #author & #illustrator worth checking out: Naoko Machida (町田尚子)

www.instagram.com/naoko.machid...

#picurebooks #Japanese #multilingualism #langsky
A selection of posts from Naoko Machida's (町田尚子) Instagram showing illustrations, each featuring a cat/cats in whimsical drawings. From: https://www.instagram.com/naoko.machida_art/
January 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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2. Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El cabello maravilloso de Dalia is a #duallanguage #Spanish & #English #picturebook written & illustrated by Laura Lacámara (Spanish translation: Gabriela Baeza Ventura) 💙📚

What a fun mix of magical realism, nature, & connections to #Cuba!

#ESL #EAL #multilinguallearners
This is the cover of the picture book: Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El cabello maravilloso de Dalia by/por Laura Lacámara. To the left of center is Dalia, whose curly, dark hair rises to the top of the page, with a butterfly perched on the left side. In the background you see Dalia's mother, a small black cat hiding behind her, and a house in the distance with a palm tree at the top.
December 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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I don't always love #duallanguage books, but I can recommend these two in #Spanish & #English:

1. Flotando en la canción de mamá / Floating on Mama's Song (Laura Lacámara, Yuyi Morales)

The illustrations are absolutely wonderful!

#picturebooks #multilingualism #ESL #EAL #multilinguallearners
The cover of a dual language picture book has the title at the topFloating on Mama's Song / Flotando en la canción de mamá, with the the author's name below, Laura Lacámara, and the text, llustrated by/ilustrado por Yuyi Morales. The cover features a woman holding the hand of a young child floating in the air, while the younger brother floats on the other side. Two pages from inside are covered in a rose pink with blue and yellow colors in an almost tie die pattern on the page. A woman's face is turned up to the sky on the left side, eyes closed, singing, with colors seeming to come from her mouth. The right side shows her hand lifting up towards the sky. The text reads: My mama loves to sing. Her singing was always a happy part of everyday life. But everything changed the day after my seventh birthday. / A mamá le encanta cantar. Su canto siempre ha sido una ocasión de alegría cotidiana en nuestra vida. Pero todo cambió el día después que cumplí siete años.
December 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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And one more!

Again @mr-oliverjeffers.bsky.social & Sam Winston paired up for A Child of Books!

A gorgeously illustrated, imaginative tale celebrating #books & #stories! You would be hard pressed to image a more creative way to use text in images!

#picturebooks 💙📚 #TLsky #kidlit
Picture book cover, all in red. Title is A Child of BOOKS. In the center of the page is a red book with a golden lock in the center. The spine of the book has the author/illustrator names Oliver Jeffers, Sam Winston. A girl in shades of blue and white sits on the top of the book. A page from the book picturing a grey and black castle. A boy stands on top of a turret holding a 'rope' made from words. The girl from the cover hangs from the rope partway down. The 'rope' is made from the words: Rapunzel, she had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress, she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell down. Another page from the text. The girl from the cover holds the hand of a the boy as she helps him up a mountain made of words. Pink clouds float above. The mountain is made from the story Peter Pan and Wendy.
December 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Also by Sam Winston with @mr-oliverjeffers.bsky.social is The Dictionary Story, another wonderful #picturebook about #words 🗣💬

Wanting to be a book that tells #stories, a dictionary decides to try it out! An adventure with an alligator, donut, ghost, queen & more ensues!

#kidlit 💙📚 #TLsky
Cover of the picture book called The DICTIONARY STORY by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. There was an A (as in A Dictionary Story), but the A is crossed out. In the center of the page is a book being opened by a number of creatures sticking out from the pages, a walrus, alligator, umbrella, moon, cloud, etc. A page from the book. The background is a page from a dictionary, with bolded words followed by their pronunciation and definitions. The top of the page reads: This dictionary decided she would . . . and in the center of the dictionary page an alligator is coming out of the page, with the words: bring her words to LIFE!
December 19, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Although written in #English, Sam Winston's One & Everything, has a wonderful message about #languages & the dominance of English, making fabulous use of scripts from languages around the world! 💙📚

#picturebooks #stories #kidlit #multilingualism 🐦🐦
Picture book cover, One & Everything by Sam Winston. Cover features a white background with roman letters floating in the background. There are colorful circles that overlay the letters, with three prominent ones, a blue on the reads One, grey on that reads & and a pink one reading Everything. A page from inside the book. Again featuring colorful circles. This time some of them contain letters from various languages' scripts. It reads: Once there were many stories for the world.
December 19, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Kende! Kende! Kende!
(Kirsten Cappy, Yaya Gentille, @rahanabanana.bsky.social)

A #multilingual #picturebook: text #English & #French; dialogue #Lingala

The story is also read in other #African languages: #Swahili, #Portuguese, #Kinyarwanda, #Arabic

@andreaywang.bsky.social's article: t.ly/pg1Y9
Book cover reads KENDE! KENDE! KENDE! (Go! Go! Go!) by Kirsten Cappy & Yaya Gentille, illustrated by Rahana Dariah. Image is of a young girl in orange sitting in a wheelbarrow with her arms joyfully stretched out as she is pushed by a man who appears to be her father. A page from the book. The left side we see the same young girl from the cover, Lolie, with two chickens, looked over by a woman who is likely her mother. It reads: Lolie adorait aller aller aller, Lolie loved to go, go, go. Around the girl are the words KENDE! KENDE! KENDE!. The image on the right shows Lolie in a wheelbarrow pushed by her father. It reads: Même plus grande, arrivait encore à convaincre son papa fatigué d'aller plus vite, plus vite, plus vite. Even as she grew, she could still get her tired papá to push her faster, faster, faster. Near the wheelbarrow, it reads NOKI! NOKI! NOKI! This page shows a colorful map of Africa and the headlines state: Languages of Central Africa/Langues de L'Afrique centrale. Readers can scan the QR codes to hear the story read aloud in other African and African diaspora languages, such as Swahili, Portuguese, Kinyarwanda, and Arabic.
December 12, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Good morning #booksky!

Today's #book from our #multilingual collection is a #duallanguage text in #Punjabi & #English

ਚੀਤੇ ਦਾ ਢੋਲ/The Leopard's Drum by Jessica Souhami

It's a West African tale with illustrations adapted from the author's own shadow puppets!

#langsky #picturebooks #kidlit
Panjabi & English, The Leopard's Drum, ਚੀਤੇ ਦਾ ਢੋਲ, Jessica Souhami
December 10, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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I'm jealous of folks at The Children's #PictureBook Festival in #Thailand!

Anyone come across outstanding #Thai #language #picturebooks to recommend? :)

‪@linipnilson.bsky.social‬ @suwicha.bsky.social #kidlit #TLsky #multilingualism #langsky

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Advertisement for Children's Picturebook Festival "presented by SandClock Books." The remaining text is in Thai and I am unable to translate or copy it here.
December 8, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Good morning! Check out another #picturebook from our collection:

This one by Antoine Guillopé looks #French, but it's not really, it's #wordless!

With gorgeous illustrations en noir et blanc you can read/tell/share a #story in any #language & at any level!

#multilingualism 💙📚 #kidlit
The cover of the picturebook Loup Noir by Antoine Guilloppé. The front is all in black, with menacing looking triangular shaped eyes in white. An inside page from this black and white book. The sky is in black, with the ground in white. A small figure is walking across the ground on the left side and is approaching a grove of trees on the right.
December 3, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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Top tip to source #picturebooks in #Indian languages such as #Bengali, #Gujarati, #Hindi, #Kannada, #Malayalam, #Marathi, #Tamil, #Telugo, etc

Check out Tulika Books: www.tulikabooks.com/

Or if you're in #London, visit @shalimarbooks.bsky.social to see some in person! 💙📚

#langsky #multilingualism
Banner from Tulika publisher's website, including logo reading Tulika Books For Children. There is an image of child under a tree and the text reads Many languages. . . Many voices. . .
November 30, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Another gorgeous #picturebook from our collection! #French this time, although you may know the original #English language version.

Un Jour J'ai Eu Une Idée (What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada)

#kidlit #multilingualism 💙📚
Un Jour J'ai Eu Une Idée Écrit par Kobi Yamada Illustré par Mae Besom This is a page from the book. The scene is in black and white. On the left a small child looks down at a golden colored egg with a crown (this is the only color) It sayd: Un jour, j'ai eu une idée. On the right side is the text: "D'oú vient-elle? Pourquoi est-elle-lá?" me suit-ju demandé. "Que fait-on avec une idée?"
November 30, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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The second, third, & fourth books we added to our #MultilingualLibrary are in #Arabic! 📚💙

الدودة شديدة الجوع
ليالي شهرزيزي
أين أختبأ الدينصور؟

#picturebooks #kidlit #langsky #multilingual 🐦🐦
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle in Arabic The Shahrzizi Nights : A Story Within a Story Within a Story by Hadil Ghoneim in Arabic Where did the dinosaur hide? by Dar Al Yasmine Jordan in Arabic
November 29, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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This was the first book added to our #MultilingualLibrary of #picturebooks! 🤩

Maja tizenkét babája (Maja's Twelve Dolls) in #Romanian

Just £2.00 from Oxfam Books financed by yours truly (@hmking-linguist.bsky.social) pre-funding!

#langsky #booksky #library
Book: Maja tizenkét babája (Maja's Twelve Dolls) by Petra Finy
November 28, 2024 at 7:52 PM