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Please suggest titles for the 2026 Mildred L. Batchelder Book Award - the prize for translated children's/YA books published in the USA.
And if you don't know which recent books were translated from other languages, check out our annual list! worldkidlit.org/2025/01/08/2...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM Everybody can reply
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Lawrence Schimel
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#xl8 #worldkidlit #kidlit #edusky #skybrarians
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The 2026 Mildred L. Batchelder Book Award is seeking suggestions/submissions for titles to consider for the award. You can review the terms/criteria (next post) and make a suggestion here: airtable.com/appffGXTXIuB...
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October 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM Everybody can reply
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FABULOUS news!
The Children’s Booker Prize supported by AKO Foundation will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged 8-12 years old, written in or translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland
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Announcing the Children's Booker Prize | The Booker Prize
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October 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM Everybody can reply
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Avery Udagawa
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I am so excited that @usbby.bsky.social will present an Outstanding International Books panel at SCBWI's 2026 New York Conference, 16-18 January! And online in the virtual edition! #scbwiNY26 #worldkidlit
scbwi.bsky.social SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 18d
Registration for the SCBWI 2026 New York Conference opens TODAY, October 14 @ 10am PST ! 🎉

⁠View the entire in-person line up on our website here: tinyurl.com/79hkf4ta

(and a special thank you to Merrill Rainey for making our gorgeous conference art www.littlerainey.com)

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October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM Everybody can reply
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We love when publishers treat translation as part of the art.
@northsouthbooks.bsky.social Editorial Director Alisah Niehaus Berger talks about nurturing bilingual books, amplifying new voices and giving translators cover credit 📖❤️
#WorldKidLit #Translation #kidlit
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Meet the Editorial Director: NorthSouth Books
This week World Kid Lit contributor Ayo Oyeku talks to the Editorial Director of NorthSouth Books, Alisah Niehaus Berger to find out more about the history of the publisher and their current activi…
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October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM Everybody can reply
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Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101: in conversation with project leaders, sponsored by Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. CBCP/OIW webinar Thursday 23 Oct, 5pm UK time. To register www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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Select tickets – CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams
CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams, Thu 23 Oct 2025 - 'Explorations in Translation for Children' is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cult...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM Everybody can reply
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🌍📚 Got a little one who loves stories? Katy Dycus’ toddler’s favourite picture books in translation are full of chaos, color & cuddles 💛 What stories are on repeat at your house? #WorldKidLit #kidlit #translation

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My toddler’s favorite picture books in translation
By Katy Dycus There are a few stories my two-year-old returns to again and again, plopping himself down on my lap and saying (in a demanding yet endearing way), “Mama, read!” Coincidentally, these …
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October 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM Everybody can reply
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🎉 Happy book birthday to THE TREE THAT WAS A WORLD! 🌳

“Celebrates the beauty of nature and the richness and wonder found in diverse perspectives.” — @ala-booklist.bsky.social

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October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM Everybody can reply
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Anna Desnitskaya's A STAR SHINES THROUGH is a 2025 White Raven!
Congratulations to Anna and thank you to the International Youth Library! #wrlist2025 #worldkidlit #refugeestories
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM Everybody can reply
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Illustrator + storyteller + dream-maker = Jeska Verstegen 🌟🖍️ If you don’t know her work yet, this is the moment. #WorldKidLit #kidlit #illustrator

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Meet the illustrator: Jeska Verstegen
This week we talk to Dutch illustrator Jeska Verstegen and get a peek behind the scenes of a new release, The Tree That Was a World written by Yorick Goldewijk, translated by Laura Watkinson (Eerdm…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM Everybody can reply
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Lawrence Schimel
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Including 2 picture books I translated, 1 from Spanish & 1 from Catalan.

🥰🥰

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October 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Have you checked out THE TREE THAT WAS A WORLD? "Humorous, quirky....thought-provoking, unique"(@ala-booklist.bsky.social) "Weird yet wonderful" (Kirkus Reviews). Completely unforgettable.

On sale Tue., Oct. 14!

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October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM Everybody can reply
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Lawrence Schimel
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#worldkidlit #kidlit #kidlituk #xl8
October 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM Everybody can reply
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Are you celebrating International #Music Day? Marta Pantaleo's AND THERE WAS MUSIC "bursts with a vibrant celebration of music and its ability to transcend boundaries." (@slj.com)
#worldkidlit #picturebooks #diversebooks
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM Everybody can reply
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#worldkidlit #kidlit #edusky #skybrarians #xl8 #booksky
ebyrbooks.bsky.social Eerdmans Books for Young Readers @ebyrbooks.bsky.social · Oct 1
Kids all over the world are celebrating #InternationalWalktoSchoolDay, which means it's time to revisit 9 KILOMETERS!

#worldkidlit #chile #education @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM Everybody can reply
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Kids all over the world are celebrating #InternationalWalktoSchoolDay, which means it's time to revisit 9 KILOMETERS!

#worldkidlit #chile #education @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM Everybody can reply
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I just learned of #WorldKidLit month today - as it's ending, but now I have a great resource for international and translated books - Yay!

If you love diverse books like I do, follow @worldkidlit.bsky.social and visit worldkidlit.org/what-is-worl... #readtheworld #diversebooks #childrensbooks
What is World Kid Lit Month?
World Kid Lit Month is a month to celebrate world literature for kids and teens, especially fiction and nonfiction translated to English from other languages.
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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! Why are #translated #childrensbooks so important? Victor D. O. Santos, author of WHAT MAKES US HUMAN (an @unesco.org co-publication), tells us all about it. #worldkidlit
September 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM Everybody can reply
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How wonderful to celebrate stories that cross borders! Translated children's literature opens up magical worlds, inviting young minds to dream beyond their own. Let's explore together! 🌍✨ #booksky #translatedkidlit #worldkidlit
September 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM Everybody can reply
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European Literature Network runs book reviews of translated literature of all kinds from Europe four times a year. Here's their latest children's book reviews for #WorldKidLitMonth! www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

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#RivetingReviews: Picture books from Europe for World Kid Lit Month – European Literature Network
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September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM Everybody can reply
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Congratulations! Always happy to share news - we should see it if you post it with #worldkidlit
September 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM Everybody can reply
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Lawrence Schimel
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At Frankfurt Book Fair #fbm25 next month, I will be moderating a session on translating Ukrainian children's books.

(On my birthday, too!)

#worldkidlit #kidlit #booksky #xl8
16 October 2025 11:30 – 12:20 The Languages of Childhood: Translating Children’s Literature Participants: Lawrence Schimel (author, translator, Spain/USA), Kateryna Mikhalitsyna (children’s writer, activist and cultural manager, Ukraine), Claudia Dathe (translator, Germany), Yuliia Kozlovets (director of Book Arsenal Festival) Language: English Organisers: Mystetskyi Arsenal 📍 Location: Ukrainian national stand, Hall 4.1, Stand F79/80 Short description: What challenges do translators of children’s literature face? How can rhythm, wordplay, and humor be conveyed in another language? What should be done with realities that have no equivalent in a foreign culture? And how can the languages of the world be used to talk about war, trauma, and difficult experiences when it comes to children’s books? A conversation between practitioners about how translation makes children’s literature accessible and, at the same time, richer for readers in different countries.
September 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM Everybody can reply
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Day 27 of #WorldKidLitMonth: Johanna McCalmont shares three YA novels by authors she heard speak at Berlin's African Book Festival this summer: Mamle Wolo & Ayesha Harruna Attah from Ghana, and Tendai Huchu from Zimbabwe
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Keeping the Magic Alive in African YA
By Johanna McCalmont This year, I was lucky enough to kick off my summer holiday with a long weekend in Berlin for the African Book Festival. It was a magical time catching up with bookish friends,…
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Lawrence Schimel
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irscl.bsky.social International Research Society for Children’s Literature @irscl.bsky.social · Sep 25
#CFP: SELF-TRANSLATION IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Strenæ. Research on Children’s Books and Cultural Objects
Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2025
Email: [email protected]
Website: journals.openedition.org/strenae/11837
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM Everybody can reply
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Lawrence Schimel
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I translated two of these three books reviewed for #worldkidlit (the authors from #Peru and #Argentina). 🥰🥰

#kidlit #xl8 #booksky #albumilustrado #libroinfantil
September 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM Everybody can reply
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