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🌟non-profit helping readers of all age discover diverse, translated and global children's books and YA 🌟anti-racism through reading 🌟year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth 🌟posts by teacher Ruth and translator Sarah

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My personal #WorldKidLitMonth read has been BUTTERFLY HEART by Swedish Sámi author Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Agnes Broomé. This coming-of-age book reminds me of ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME MARGARET but with slightly older characters (8th grade) and a quest to learn a once-suppressed language. 🦋

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Thank you for the incredible feat of passion, expertise and insight that was your Japanese kid lit month! We have loved reading our way through your month of posts, and still have so much bookmarked and to read in weekends to come. arigato gozaimasu!

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Holly Thompson and Avery Fischer Udagawa wrap up:

"Co-editing the Focus on Japan posts that appeared throughout September, #WorldKidLitMonth, reminded us of the abundance of translations from Japan for young people...

Let us complicate the picture of abundance a bit..."

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#worldkidlitmonth Shaw Kuzuki is a 2nd-generation atomic bomb survivor. She began writing in 2004, taking care to tell the story of "Hiroshima and the A-bomb tragedy that caused such catastrophic destruction and casualties". She has noted, "There are so many stories of Hiroshima to be written."

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#worldkidlitmonth Takuji Ichikawa (1962- ) has dreamed of being a novelist since he was in grade school. A highly successfully writer in Japan, Ichikawa asked himself what a novel should look like in an age of bleak environmental news, staggering global inequality, and growing authoritarianism.

A color photograph of Takuji Ichikawa, a thin Japanese man with medium-length, curly hair, rectangular glasses, and a salt-and-pepper goatee, posing in front of a background of trees and other plants.
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#OctoberKiwiKidsBooks Day 1:
Share a New Zealand book for children or teens that is a favourite you would gift a newborn.

Hairy Maclary treasury: the complete adventures of Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd.
Penguin Random House, 2023.
You can’t really go wrong with this glorious collection.

Hairy Maclary treasury: the complete adventures of Hairy Maclary. Written and illustrated by Lynley Dodd.
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I hope you all had a wonderful World Kid Lit Month! It was a joy putting together coverage for Publishers Weekly: 10 stories for 10 years of @worldkidlit.bsky.social. Thanks to all the translators, publishers, librarians, & other children's lit champions who help inspire kids to read across borders

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