The Multilingual Library

Look what I found in #London today! The #European Poetry Festival is on until 6 July!

Interested in #multilingualism & #poetry check it out! It includes #Lithuanian, #Cypriot, #Austrian, #Norwegian, #Estonian, #Swiss, #Swish & more!

#langsky 🗣💬 #WritingCommunity

www.europeanpoetryfestival.com

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 📚💙

It's International Women in Engineering Day! 👷‍♀️Our popular booklist celebrating women & girls in STEM is packed with 33 choices! From trailblazing pioneers to much-loved characters, these books bring STEM to life.

Find the list here: www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

#INWED2025 #STEM

Poster for July 10th event with Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor, ‘Creating Inclusive Libraries and Curricula’ with the National Literacy Trust

Librarians and primary school teachers! Join me and @darrenchetty.bsky.social for this event on July 10th in Cardiff on Creating Inclusive Libraries and Curricula and get a free copy of Beyond the Secret Garden!

Picture book cover showing an African princess seated on a tower of mattresses, with the title "The princess and the pea" and author/illustrator's name, Rachel Isadora.

Swahili in unexpected places! Rachel Isadora's retelling of The Princess and the Pea is set in Africa, with greetings in #Somali, #Amharic and #Swahili! Beautifully illustrated. The ending needs updating to involve the princess's enthusiastic consent to marriage, though !
#picturebooks #fairytale

Day 10 #30dayswildmultilingual - let's talk about the weather! If you want to have even more fun, explore *what* it is raining across the world when it rains lots: cats and dogs? String? Old ladies and sticks? Buckets? #30dayswild

Day 6 #30dayswildmultilingual - from shapes to colours: blue, yellow, red...can you find them in nature and name them? Is "red" the shortest word out of the 3 in all languages? #30dayswild

Day 5 #30dayswildmultilingual: look for shapes in nature - triangle, circle, square...name these shapes in other languages. Do all languages have a "three" of some sorts hidden in the word triangle? #30dayswild

A recommendation of a #German #picturebook from @kinderbuchkiste.bsky.social that is "a great read-aloud book that makes you smile and play with language!"

#Multilingualism 💙📚 #kidlit #LinguisticDiversity #langsky

Day 4 #30dayswildmultilingual: spot a bird, pick a bird, any bird...can you name it in another language? #30dayswild See also: www.multilingualism-in-schools.net/bird-watch/

Exciting Exhibition of 'Hamigaki Samurai' Picture Book Launches at Bookhouse Cafe The original artwork exhibition of the popular picture book 'Hamigaki Samurai' starts from July 30 at Bookhouse Cafe in Jimbocho, Tokyo, featuring fun workshops.

Exciting Exhibition of 'Hamigaki Samurai' Picture Book Launches at Bookhouse Cafe #Japan #Tokyo #picture_book #Hamigaki_Samurai #Bookhouse_Cafe

見てごらん
これは光の鏡
たくさんの人達の心
みんな光り輝いてるでしょ？
君のもきっとどこかで光っているよ
さぁ、探してみようか

Look here—
this is a mirror made of light.
It shows the hearts of many people,
all glowing softly.
Yours is shining too, somewhere out there.
Shall we go and find it?

#絵本 #kidlit #picturebook

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 💙📚

Features in the Korean Version of “The House Before Falling Into the Sea” I am so excited to share with you, the cover of the Korean version of “The House Before Falling Into the Sea”! There are a few key alterations in this publication. For starters, my Korean name, 석영주…

So excited to announce the Korean version by Prooni.com in Korea (for now.) By 6/25 #Yugio or start of the #KoreanWar #75thanniversary

annsukwang.com/2025/05/30/f...

This looks like a fantastic event for those wishing to explore "race and representation in children's literature, and approaches to diversify school #libraries" 🗣💬

#kidlit #MultilingualLibrary 💙📚 #EAL #ESL

In my book “Two Children/ Dos Idiomas,” I let Diana and Tony show you together how they discovered the benefit of speaking two languages. You can see their stories and read my explanations with the links at zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualkids #bilingualbooks #multilingualismmatters

Now that I have written a bilingual children's book myself, I'm so happy to see great sites like Language Lizard that has tons of beautiful bilingual children's books. Check out both pages!
@languagelizard.bsky.social
zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualbooks #languagelizard #bilingualkids

Day 3 #30dayswildmultilingual - Is it raining? Talk about the weather in different languages, and if you can find a puddle, jump in it and share what sound it makes across the world! #30dayswild

Calling all #multilingual learners/speakers/users! It's day 2 of #30dayswildmultilingual 🤩

Share your #languages with one another & with @bsky.app!

#EAL #ESL #langsky #edusky

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

A photo of a newspaper clipping from the Rhode Island Latino Books Award, featuring the 2026 Nominees for Grades K-12.

Yay!! SING IT LIKE CELIA has been nominated for a Rhode Island Latino Books Award! So unbelievably proud to see my book alongside so many beautiful books by cherished friends. Thank you to the @rhodeislandlibraryassociation for continuing to promote Latine books. #booksky

Newly published!

100 books in Arabic for young people published in various countries of the Arab world since 2018.

From IBBY UK & IBBY Ireland.

www.ibby.org.uk/2024-arabic-...

A #French language #picturebook to check out!

#kidlit #MultilingualLibrary 💙📚

If you're looking for #picturebooks in #japanese, check out this upcoming exhibition featuring work by illustrator & author, Moro (ももろ　絵本作家、イラストレーター)!

#MultilingualLibrary #kidlit #langsky

個展 「Traveling with the Seasons」を開催します。季節をめぐる狐の連作を展示します。それぞれの季節を楽しむ姿を見ていただけたら🍃
会場では複製画の販売、ミニ原画の販売、その他新作の狐関連のグッズも販売します。
新刊の絵本も置いていただきます📕
初日在廊予定ですがまた告知します✨
会期　2025年6月28日（土）～7月10日（木）
時間　11:00～19:00
場所　カワチ画材心斎橋店　店内ギャラリー「心斎橋・画人画廊」
大阪市中央区東心斎橋1-18-24

Looks like a great resource for finding books in or with #Spanish, #Portuguese & #English

#multilingual #picturebooks #kidlit

Listening to Dr Valeria Rigobon speak at @ioe.bsky.social event 'Bilingualism Effects on Language Development, Literacy & Identity' 😊

Check out her @theconversation.com article! 👇

Spread the news: "speaking a different language at home will not hold your child back in school!"

🗣💬 #langsky #edusky

It's wonderful to hear author, educator & #multilingual enthusiast, Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori, discuss his important work at @ioe.bsky.social!

Find out more about his work on #multilingualism here: www.library4multilinguals.com

🗣💬 #langsky 💙📚

Finally (for now 🤣) is Le #livre qui parlait toutes les #langues (Alain Serres & Fred Sochard)

Strictly speaking, it is dual language ( #French plus translations), but it is very #multilingual as each page features a different #language, including non-Roman scripts 😊

🗣💬 #kidlit 💙📚

t.ly/y9tA4

Francie Latour | Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings "A stunningly beautiful book inspired by one of Haiti's greatest artists." -- Edwidge Danticat. A "story full of the sounds, colors, and language of Haiti." -- Kirkus * Starred Review. francielatour.c...

One with #multilingualism in our @multilinglibrary.bsky.social is Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings by Francie Latour, pictures by Ken Daley

With gorgeous illustrations, the #book, mostly in English, features phrases in Haitian Creole with a glossary at the end

🗣💬 #kidlit 💙📚

www.francielatour.com