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By Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp<\/p>\n

Hopefully you\u2019ve heard: World Kid Lit is 10 this September!<\/p>\n

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It has been a truly global community project, bringing together children\u2019s and YA lit enthusiasts from dozens of countries, across five continents. Together we have celebrated #WorldKidLitMonth in a decade of Septembers, published over 600 blog posts about translated and international books, shared countless lists, resources and social media posts, run events, spoken on publishing panels, on the radio and on podcasts, launched an award for schools, and sent free books to schools in several countries. And read and reviewed a lot of amazing books!<\/p>\n

We asked the brilliant people who have built and sustained World Kid Lit to introduce themselves and recommend an international book they have enjoyed recently, or one that has particularly stuck with them since being involved with World Kid Lit.<\/p>\n

Alexandra B\u00fcchler<\/h3>\n
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I\u2019m so thrilled to see World Kid Lit turn ten, having been one of its founders and having cheered the team that formed around this wonderful resource from the sidelines ever since. The credit goes to everyone who has contributed over the years, and above all to Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp for her dedication and passion without which this important volunteer-led initiative would not have become what it is today. Here\u2019s to another decade and more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Anam Zafar<\/h3>\n
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After beginning as a social media volunteer for WKL many years ago, I now represent WKL at various events such as conferences and festivals, and I have recently become a member of the advisory board, too.<\/p>\n

As a professional translator of books \u2013 including children\u2019s books \u2013 the WKL blog helps me to keep on top of publishing trends, and the interviews with other kidlit translators always inspire me. But what I love the most is meeting other people who are committed to combatting racism through books, and seeing their faces light up when I tell them that an organisation like WKL exists!<\/p>\n

Recently, I read\u00a0Asad\u2019s Secret<\/em>\u00a0by the Palestinian author Najlaa Attaallah, translated from Arabic into English by Sawad Hussain and published by Levine Querido earlier this year. I would recommend this book as a gripping snapshot of what life might be like for a boy in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ay\u00f2 Oyeku<\/h3>\n
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My name is Ay\u00f2 Oyeku, and I serve as the lead African contributor to World Kid Lit. In this capacity, I devote myself chiefly to reviewing children\u2019s literature crafted by African authors both home and abroad. I also spotlight some of these amazing writers and illustrators through interviews. Far more than a voluntary endeavour, I regard this work as a means of unveiling Africa\u2019s rich narratives to the wider world, while gently inviting the world, in turn, to discover Africa. Of this reciprocal gift of stories and understanding, I am most proud.<\/p>\n

I wholeheartedly recommend\u00a0The Missing Chicken<\/em>, written by Ugo Anidi, illustrated by Folasade Adeshida, and published in Nigeria by\u00a0Books for Umu Ntii (BUN)<\/em>. In this witty and humorous picture book, young Ola embarks upon a quest to recover her Mama\u2019s vanished chicken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Charisma Lee<\/h3>\n
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Through World Kid Lit, I get to learn about titles from all around the world, as well as efforts to make publishing more equitable and representative of the global majority. This is especially helpful to my role as a collection development librarian who prioritizes underrepresented stories and storytellers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve recently been charmed by\u00a0The Invisible<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Alcides Villa\u00e7a and Andr\u00e9s Sandoval (translated from Portuguese by Fl\u00e1via Rocha, in collaboration with Endi Bogue Hartigan). It\u2019s a tad melancholy and thought-provoking, neither of which I think will scare off younger readers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Claire Storey<\/h3>\n
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I was blog editor from 2019 to 2023, working to create and curate content for our weekly blog posts. My years as blog editor were truly some of my most fulfilling and I really enjoyed being completely immersed in the world of children\u2019s literature, connecting with such a variety of people who were and are so passionate about global books for young people. <\/p>\n

Volunteering with World Kid Lit impacted on my own work as an emerging translator at the time, inspiring and encouraging me to push my own boundaries \u2013 I would not be where I am today without the supportive World Kid Lit community. My current translation project is due for release in February 2027 and is my first translation from Catalan:\u00a0The Murderess of Venice\u00a0<\/em>by Pol Castellanos, an exciting World War I murder mystery combined with a sprinkling of Norse mythology! \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Johanna McCalmont<\/h3>\n
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I\u2019ve been one of the blog co-editors for the\u00a0past five years. It\u2019s been amazing to watch the\u00a0team\u00a0of contributors grow over the years and expand across the world. Zoom calls with kid lit friends logging in across time zones, from early morning to late night, really is one of the best things!<\/p>\n

I work as a translator and have happily found myself specialising in kid lit. World Kid Lit has been an incredibly supportive community that has recommended me for certain projects and events. It has also been a great place to go when I needed help brainstorming more than one translation conundrum!<\/p>\n

There has been a LOT of love on the blog for Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin\u2019s\u00a0Akissi<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>over the years, but I\u2019m also a big fan of her \u2018older sister\u2019\u00a0Aya<\/em><\/a>. While she isn\u2019t Akissi\u2019s actual older sister, the series is perfect for readers looking to move up to YA graphic fiction from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gemma Ware<\/h3>\n
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I help with the social media\u00a0team. I love the way WKL makes me discover a world of books and translations that I wouldn\u2019t otherwise come across. There are book lists from around the world but also for different ages, from the very small to the young adults. I also really enjoy the passion and enthusiasm of the contributors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of my favourite recent reads has been The Boy From Clearwater<\/em> by Yu Pei-Yun, illustrated by Zhou Jian-Xin and translated by Lin King. It tells the story of Taiwan all the way from the Japanese occupation of the 1930s to present day through the lense of the life of human rights activist Tsai Kun-Lin. The artwork is fantastic, they use a different coloured font to show the different languages at play and the cultural mix of the island. I have read it with my two teen daughters and it has really helped explain, in a really gripping way, the history of a very complicated area of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Helen Wang<\/h3>\n
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A long time ago (winter 2012\/13) I started @TranslatedWorld on twitter, followed by its little sibling @TranslatedWorld for children. When WorldKidLit started, I pinned a final tweet on the latter, saying something like \u201cGone to join @WorldKidLIt\u201d. Since day one, I\u2019ve loved the pool of knowledge and experience in WorldKidLit, and especially the energy and camaraderie. Everyone at WorldKidLit shares a common goal, yet we all have our own personal interests. It\u2019s wonderful to see people and ideas grow, both in confidence and substance.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to seeing the English edition of HU Yifan\u2019s picture book\u00a0Breathe In, Breathe Out<\/em>\u00a0(Blue Dot, April 2027). The concept is beautifully simple: pairs of clear, colour illustrations, with the words \u201cBreathe In, Breathe Out\u201d repeated with each pair. I believe this is a very important book, and I\u2019d like to see it reviewed widely, and its calming effects tested by professionals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jackie Friedman Mighdoll<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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It\u2019s hard to believe, but I\u2019ve been editing the World Kid Lit blog for FIVE years! My favorite part has been getting to know the wonderful people in this community: translators, advocates, publishers, writers. It\u2019s fun to realize that thanks to World Kid Lit I have new friends around the world. <\/p>\n

Two books I love and admire are\u00a0Sato the Rabbit\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Louis Undercover.<\/em>\u00a0I cover many more of my favorites in my\u00a0newsletter On Beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Katy Dycus<\/h3>\n
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Coming to WKL with a professional background in anthropology, I found the parallels striking: discovery, a penchant for human stories passed down through the ages, human creativity, connection. Since joining WKL as a contributor, I\u2019ve had the joy of reviewing children\u2019s books and interviewing picture book makers around the world, and now I get to serve as one of the blog\u2019s co-editors. I love meeting and working alongside those who dedicate their lives to honoring children\u2019s lives through storytelling. I\u2019m most proud of the fact that WKL shines a spotlight\u00a0on stories and creatives that might otherwise go unnoticed\u00a0by English-speaking audiences.<\/p>\n

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Quebec-based author-illustrator Marianne Dubuc. My toddler and I now read her book Your House, My House<\/em> several nights a week before bed. The book gives a cross-section of an apartment building inhabited by various creatures: a sick bear, a rabbit family, an owl, a friendly ghost in the attic, a mouse family with rascally triplets. Dubuc weaves in characters from fairy tales as readers spend a day with the creatures, in their homes. If you are anything like me, you\u2019ll want to live there!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lawrence Schimel<\/h3>\n
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I am a literary translator of over 200 books in many different genres, more than half of which are kidlit and am one of the original co-founders of World Kid Lit.<\/p>\n

I love but don\u2019t often get a chance to work on children\u2019s poetry, so I\u2019d recommend When You Were A Cloud <\/em>by Chilean poet Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Ferrada and Mexican artist Azul L\u00f3pez, forthcoming from The Emma Press in September (the third children\u2019s poetry collection I\u2019ve translated for them, and the third book by Ferrada I\u2019ve gotten to translate, too).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lisa Davis<\/h3>\n
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I\u2019m a freelance children\u2019s book editor and I was formerly on the advisory board for World Kid Lit. <\/p>\n

World Kid Lit is amazing at showcasing books from around the world. It\u2019s hard enough for any children\u2019s book to get reviews and decent media coverage, but books in translation can especially struggle if there isn\u2019t an author to promote their work locally. World Kid Lit has always done a fantastic job working across borders for these books, showing how global the reading community can be. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve worked on so many wonderful books that it\u2019s hard to choose just one to recommend, but an author I\u2019ve really enjoyed recently is Tini Malina from Germany. Her latest books include Baroness Spookiness<\/em> (Gestalten) and Selma, You\u2019re Doing it Wrong! <\/em>(NorthSouth Books). She has a really clever (and sometimes surreal!) sense of humour, and her illustrations are super stylish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marcia Lynx Qualey<\/h3>\n
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What was my role? I guess I opened the website? I saw what Meytal did with Women in Translation Month, and I thought about the incredible gaps in English-language literature for young readers. We lived in the US for a few years when my kids were small, and the glimpses that English-language books gave them \u2014 of the world beyond the United States \u2014 were so patently ridiculous. The only picture books you could find that even represented an African nation did so with a friendly elephant and a lion and maybe some pyramids. And that\u2019s just representation. You can forget the different cadences, art and storytelling styles, ideas, and genres that other literatures could gift young readers. I know there are brilliant publishers out there doing great work! But in the public libraries, the books we could access were [makes sad face].<\/p>\n

I would recommend Hooda Shawa\u2019s<\/a> The Necklace of Seven Souls<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain and Nour Jaljuli (Yonder Books). I would also like to recommend Hooda\u2019s\u00a0Dragon of Bethlehem,\u00a0<\/em>because I\u2019ve got a *huge* soft spot for dragons, but we\u2019re still looking for a publisher for that one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mia Spangenberg<\/h3>\n
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I initially joined WKL as a contributing writer and reviewed several books and also interviewed editors at kidlit presses. My heart goes out to this community that cares so much about kids and works so hard to make sure they have access to everything the world has to offer.<\/p>\n

The first two translated kid lit books I\u2019ve read and love that come to mind are The Letter for the King<\/em> by Tonke Dragt, translated by Laura Watkinson and On a Magical Do-Nothing Day<\/em> written and illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna, translated by Jill Davis. Fantasy and make-believe \u2013 we all need more of those things in our lives!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mohini Gupta<\/h3>\n
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I started out with World Kid Lit writing about Indian children\u2019s literature in translation, an exercise that expanded my own research and knowledge of the field as well. I then became a Committee Member in 2020 and in the pandemic, I put my newly acquired Zoom skills to great use by setting up WKL Live sessions on YouTube. We hosted sessions on Central European literature and young readers; African kidlit; Arabic literature for young readers; and to making kidlit travel around the world. Community-building was the most rewarding part of this exercise and the pandemic gave us a lot of opportunities to do that across continents and linguistic groups. It also gave me inspiration to run my own digital multilingual children\u2019s poetry initiative Mother Tongue Twisters. There were a lot of shared learnings between the two platforms!<\/p>\n

One of my favourite Hindi authors is Vinod Kumar Shukla, and I recommend one of the last novels he wrote.\u00a0It\u2019s called\u00a0Moonrise from the Green Grass Roof<\/em>, translated from Hindi by Satti Khanna, who translated all his novels into English. It\u2019s about a young boy Bolu who can speak only while he walks! His teachers have to walk with him if they have to hear him answer their questions in class, and the moon travels with Bolu and his friends for all their adventures. There\u2019s a touch of effortless magical realism in his writings, and it is brought out beautifully in this book!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nanette McGuinness<\/h3>\n
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I translate books and graphic novels for children, YA readers and adults from French, Italian, German, and Spanish into English. My role at World Kid Lit has been simple, satisfying, and long-running: over the past decade, I\u2019ve reviewed children\u2019s books and graphic novels in translation several times a year. I particularly enjoy the annual \u201cEisner\/award-nominated round-up\u201d that I\u2019ve been doing the past few years, highlighting my favorite award-winning or award-nominated graphic novels, most typically from the Eisner Awards (the Oscars of the comics world).<\/p>\n

World Kid Lit performs a crucial role in helping spread the word about books for children in translation\u2013even helping excellent international books find a publisher willing to bring their precious contents to English-speaking readers and libraries\u2013which has an obvious intersection with my own work, and I\u2019m so proud and honored to have been able to help with that effort over the past decade!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Paula Holmes<\/h3>\n
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I have been a contributor to the World Kid Lit blog for several years and prior to that I actively participated in World Kid Lit Month on social media. I still view myself as librarian even though my role is now volunteering and recommending books online, especially through WKL posts. My involvement in translations for children has deepened my relationships and commitment to support small independent publishers. My support has extended to individual titles including Rosie Runs<\/em> and Bob & Hilbert<\/em> for Elsewhere Editions and We Go To The Park<\/em> for Unruly, in imprint of Enchanted Lion Books. I feel that incredibly proud mother moment every timeI see my name on the copyright page.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Currently, I am rereading Run For Your Life<\/em> by Silvana Gandolfi, translated from Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Yonder Books. It had me on the edge of my seat in 2018, and the twists and suspense still blow me away today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp<\/h3>\n
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I\u2019m a languages teacher and a literary translator. I have volunteered at World Kid Lit in various capacities over the years from blog editor to instagrammer to managing director since 2024. <\/p>\n

The two things I\u2019m most proud of at World Kid Lit are the Schools Award we\u2019ve set up to encourage young people to read internationally, and the super supportive global community that\u2019s grown up around project World Kid Lit. <\/p>\n

The book that\u2019s stuck with me the most\u2013though somehow I\u2019ve never managed to review it on the blog\u2013 is Rasha<\/em> by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal<\/a>, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha, which was shortlisted for the GLLI Translated YA Prize in 2019. It was published in 2016, the year Alexandra, Lawrence and Marcia started World Kid Lit, so it shares our 10 year anniversary!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sarah Robinson<\/h3>\n
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My name is Sarah and I\u2019m a Director at World Kid Lit and part of the fundraising team, helping to support the organisation\u2019s mission to champion diverse children\u2019s literature from around the world. I\u2019m also a literary translator working from French and German into English, so World Kid Lit is very close to my passion for bringing diverse international voices to English-speaking readers! <\/p>\n

I\u2019m particularly proud of helping create opportunities for children, translators and publishers to discover diverse stories beyond their own linguistic and cultural borders. I also volunteer as a translator for B\u00fccherpiraten, a wonderful German charity where children write, illustrate and publish books for other children. A recent favourite is The Colorful Chestnut Leaf<\/em>, a lovely example of children\u2019s literature written by and for children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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World Kid Lit<\/a> is a nonprofit that aims to bring diverse, inclusive, global literature into the hands and onto the bookshelves of young people. We rely on grants and donations to support our work. If you can, please support us at Ko-fi<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We earn a small commission every time you buy books via the affiliate links on our site, or via our booklists at UK Bookshop.org<\/a>. This is a much appreciated donation towards our work. Thank you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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