New York Times/NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award Honors 5 Books in Translation By Gelsey Phaneuf On November 7th, The New York Times and New York Public Library released their list of the ten best illustrated children’s books of 2025. World Kid Lit connoisseurs will immediate…

🎨✨ Did you know? This year’s NYT / NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books include five translated titles! @nytimes.com 📕 A beautiful reminder that picture-book art truly has no borders. #WorldKidLit #kidlit #picturebooks

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A is for bee: an alphabet book in translation by Ellen Heck.

G is for Cat: Gato in Spanish. Gaazhagens in Ojibwe. Goyangi in Korean.

K is for giraffe. Kakīroa in Māori. Kirahvi in Finnish. Kaelkirjak in Estonian. Kamilopárdali in Greek.

R is for fox. Ræv in Danish. Rovi in Kurdish. Renard in French. Róka in Hungarian. Rubâh in Persian.

What a wonderful book!

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2025 Schools International Reading Award: Meet the Winners! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our inaugural International Reading Award which celebrates international reading for pleasure in schools. Drum roll please … Younger category f…

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our inaugural International Reading Award 📚 which celebrates international #reading for pleasure in schools. 🥇 🏫 🎉 Meet the winners! #worldkidlit #schools #readingprize

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Children’s Literature in Aotearoa/New Zealand By Nicola Daly Aotearoa (translated as “land of the long white cloud”) is the Māori name for New Zealand, a small country in the South Pacific, to the east of Australia. Just over …

Aotearoa’s children’s books are bursting with life, language, and identity! 🇳🇿✨
Take a deep dive into how te reo Māori and storytelling come together #NZ #NewZealand #kidlit
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🔥 The YA book list of your dreams. Everyone is talking about them, so what are you waiting for? The YA Best Books 2025 list is packed with bold voices that meet teens exactly where they are. These books will challenge, comfort, and completely sweep you in.
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Including 2 picture books I translated, 1 from Spanish & 1 from Catalan.

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#worldkidlit #kidlit #xl8

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

Thank you - this was brilliant!

Wonderful - we adore the USBBY Outstanding International Books lists! Such a fab resource

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

Mildred L. Batchelder Award The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is awarded to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and...

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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...
#kidslit #worldkidlit

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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...

The Children’s Booker Prize | The Booker Prizes The prize, to be awarded annually from 2027 and supported by AKO Foundation, will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old

And .... The winner will be selected by a combined panel of *child* and adult judges, chaired by the UK’s Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
Just aweseome 👏👏👏
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#childrensbooker #bookerprize #kidlituk

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes Announcing the Children's Booker Prize | The Booker Prize

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
#worldkidlit #UkKidLit #irishkidlit #xl8
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#YA Review & Author Interview: Solo by Gráinne O’Brien Cover art by Anna Bopulogne, published by Little Island Books, 9 April 2025, ISBN: 978-1915071798 Today I am delighted to welcome Irish novelist Gráinne O’Brien to my blog. Gráinne has writte…

Thanks @littleislandbooks.bsky.social for sending me a copy of #Solo & thanks @grainneobrien.bsky.social for answering my questions about your fab verse novel. Here’s the interview & my review 👇
#IrishKidLit (adding #UkKidLit for discoverability!)

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There is a silver bullet for childhood happiness: a love of reading Bestselling children’s author Katherine Rundell says to reverse the reading crisis we must let young people rediscover the enjoyment of books — whatever they may be

It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...

Cover of Shubh Diwali by Chitra Soundar and illustrated by Charlene Chua. Two south Asian children in festive outfits holding lamps. In the background are colorful decorations.

Happy #diwali to all who celebrate! 🪔

#kidlit #kidlitart

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…

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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Love seeing our GET ON YOUR BIKE in this blog post from Katy Dycus! ❤️🚲

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 …

🌍📚 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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Thank you to @worldkidlit.bsky.social for this great interview with THE TREE THAT WAS A WORLD illustrator Jeska Verstegen! On sale Tuesday! #childrensbooks #middlegrade #fiction

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…

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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Book cover for Spirit Warriors by Ashley Thorpe

Book cover for Nush and the Stolen Emerald by Jasbinder Bilan

Book cover for Nate Yu’s Blast from the Past by Maisie Chan

Book cover for Birdie by J. P. Rose

With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers.
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

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Panel discussion taking place in a conference room with four speakers seated on stage in front of an audience. A large screen beside them displays a slide that reads, “America’s war on books is more than a war on words. THE LIBRARIANS. Directed by Kim A. Snyder.” The slide also shows several film festival logos.

THE LIBRARIANS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is a *must-see.*

Thanks to @ifla.org Met Lib for the private screening at Toronto Reference Library.

Terrifying, deeply moving. I know several of the librarians & recognized books by many #KidLit #YALit friends. 😢

#BannedBooksWeek #LibrarySky

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THE PRINTING PRESS (Palindrome)

Repaper:
I snap, my tone placid.
A rare vellum knits art,
no coil of fires....
Midst no felt tome,
we gape, we gage, we page,
we mottle fonts.
Dim serif,
folio,
contrast,
ink,
mull ever a radical pen....
O, tympans!
I repaper.

Banned Books Week UK - Index on Censorship Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025. It’s a week to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced

Why not borrow a banned book today?

Find out more here: www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

#DULib #BannedBooksWeek

The human, and queer, experience includes all abilities and neurotypes. The drive to silence disabled voices is intersectional with the drive to silence queer voices. 1/2
#SapphicsWithTheBanned #BannedBooksWeek

The constitutional rights of all students & community members to utilize library resources & services must be protected. #JCPSLibraries proudly champion & defend the #RightToRead and #IntellectualFreedom --especially during #BannedBooksWeek. #ReadForYourRights #fREADom @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social