Avery Udagawa
@averyudagawa.bsky.social
Kansan in Thailand, translator of Japanese children's literature, believer in #worldkidlit www.averyfischerudagawa.com
OverDrive has updated the Libby & Sora Reads landing page to include a translator credit. Grateful for another move to #namethetranslator. #xl8 #translation pages.libbylife.com/LibbySoraReads
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
OverDrive has updated the Libby & Sora Reads landing page to include a translator credit. Grateful for another move to #namethetranslator. #xl8 #translation pages.libbylife.com/LibbySoraReads
One daughter and I went out to lunch today, and she happened to snap a pic of my #TranslatorsAloud merch in the wild. Grab yours! 👇
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
One daughter and I went out to lunch today, and she happened to snap a pic of my #TranslatorsAloud merch in the wild. Grab yours! 👇
Look out world, there's a new #CaoWenxuan title translated from Chinese by @helenwanglondon.bsky.social. A #picturebook this time! Illustrated by Suzy Lee . . . starred review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. #worldkidlit #kidlit
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Look out world, there's a new #CaoWenxuan title translated from Chinese by @helenwanglondon.bsky.social. A #picturebook this time! Illustrated by Suzy Lee . . . starred review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. #worldkidlit #kidlit
Book mail! @katemilford.bsky.social's RIALTO is coming in April and is about "anxiety and sibling relationships...to a similar degree to which GREENGLASS HOUSE is about adoption." It's set in #Missouri and involves a theme park town swallowed by forest. I'm in! #kidlit #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Book mail! @katemilford.bsky.social's RIALTO is coming in April and is about "anxiety and sibling relationships...to a similar degree to which GREENGLASS HOUSE is about adoption." It's set in #Missouri and involves a theme park town swallowed by forest. I'm in! #kidlit #booksky
The Wild Ones by Antonio Ramos Revillas, tr Claire Storey, would not let me go on #InternationalTranslationDay 2025. What a read. #WorldKidLitMonth #YA #xl8
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Wild Ones by Antonio Ramos Revillas, tr Claire Storey, would not let me go on #InternationalTranslationDay 2025. What a read. #WorldKidLitMonth #YA #xl8
AI cannot develop a relationship with an editor or have the emotional experience that a #translation must recreate.
Pearls of wisdom from @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social's breakout session at #scbwiSummer25! #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8
Pearls of wisdom from @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social's breakout session at #scbwiSummer25! #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8
August 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
AI cannot develop a relationship with an editor or have the emotional experience that a #translation must recreate.
Pearls of wisdom from @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social's breakout session at #scbwiSummer25! #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8
Pearls of wisdom from @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social's breakout session at #scbwiSummer25! #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8
Saying cheese at the Translators' Social with Claire Storey at #scbwiSummer25! #SCBWITranslation #xl8 #kidlit #worldkidlit
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Saying cheese at the Translators' Social with Claire Storey at #scbwiSummer25! #SCBWITranslation #xl8 #kidlit #worldkidlit
#SCBWI Virtual Summer Conference 2025 is July 31-August 3, with “the entire program, every single class on offer” available to registrants by video replay through September 14. Schedule: www.scbwi.org/events/virtu...
#Translation highlights at #scbwiSummer25:
#Translation highlights at #scbwiSummer25:
July 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
#SCBWI Virtual Summer Conference 2025 is July 31-August 3, with “the entire program, every single class on offer” available to registrants by video replay through September 14. Schedule: www.scbwi.org/events/virtu...
#Translation highlights at #scbwiSummer25:
#Translation highlights at #scbwiSummer25:
Wonderful to hear @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social describe finding the #ya book by Ondjake that she would pitch and translate as Our Beautiful Darkness—in the stunning Lisbon bookstore Ler Devagar. Thank you to @usbby.bsky.social and #ILA for spotlighting #worldkidlit and #translation.
July 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Wonderful to hear @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social describe finding the #ya book by Ondjake that she would pitch and translate as Our Beautiful Darkness—in the stunning Lisbon bookstore Ler Devagar. Thank you to @usbby.bsky.social and #ILA for spotlighting #worldkidlit and #translation.
In her Summer 2025 State of the Children's Publishing Market talk for @scbwi.bsky.social, @deborahhalverson.bsky.social touches on how cuts to the #NationalEndowmentForTheArts affect #kidlit #translation, with reference to the #NEA grant termination tracker shared by the @authorsguild.bsky.social. 👇
July 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In her Summer 2025 State of the Children's Publishing Market talk for @scbwi.bsky.social, @deborahhalverson.bsky.social touches on how cuts to the #NationalEndowmentForTheArts affect #kidlit #translation, with reference to the #NEA grant termination tracker shared by the @authorsguild.bsky.social. 👇
The @barnesandnoble.com edition of Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, tr @tristiger.bsky.social, is so pretty! 🤩
July 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The @barnesandnoble.com edition of Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, tr @tristiger.bsky.social, is so pretty! 🤩
Happy to see The Village Beyond the Mist at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social in Wichita—not far from Greenglass House by @katemilford.bsky.social, who interviewed #SachikoKashiwaba and me at an event in NYC recently! Really feel these books are literary kin.
July 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Happy to see The Village Beyond the Mist at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social in Wichita—not far from Greenglass House by @katemilford.bsky.social, who interviewed #SachikoKashiwaba and me at an event in NYC recently! Really feel these books are literary kin.
Translators, register here to join a social featuring Claire Storey, translator of 2025 GLLI Translated #YA Book Prize winner THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS. Thurs, July 31, 7-8 am PDT/3-4 pm BST! scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Part of #scbwiSummer25. Conference registration not required to join the Zoom.
Part of #scbwiSummer25. Conference registration not required to join the Zoom.
July 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Translators, register here to join a social featuring Claire Storey, translator of 2025 GLLI Translated #YA Book Prize winner THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS. Thurs, July 31, 7-8 am PDT/3-4 pm BST! scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Part of #scbwiSummer25. Conference registration not required to join the Zoom.
Part of #scbwiSummer25. Conference registration not required to join the Zoom.
So glad you accessed Nanako Vera Mizushima’s pitch-perfect performance of The House of the Lost on the Cape! I think @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social describes it very well. #summerreading #audiobooks
July 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
So glad you accessed Nanako Vera Mizushima’s pitch-perfect performance of The House of the Lost on the Cape! I think @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social describes it very well. #summerreading #audiobooks
#Japan #kidlit in the wild! Happy to see Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida tr @jmitsu.bsky.social, How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino tr Bruno Navasky, Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono tr @tristiger.bsky.social, and more near The Village Beyond the Mist at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social!
July 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#Japan #kidlit in the wild! Happy to see Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida tr @jmitsu.bsky.social, How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino tr Bruno Navasky, Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono tr @tristiger.bsky.social, and more near The Village Beyond the Mist at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social!
Thank you to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for your embrace of The Village Beyond the Mist! #SachikoKashiwaba and I were thrilled by the warm crowd and the attentive, engaged staff. We even spotted homage to #MihoSatake ‘s umbrella illustrations on a sign made to advertise the event in-store!
July 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thank you to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for your embrace of The Village Beyond the Mist! #SachikoKashiwaba and I were thrilled by the warm crowd and the attentive, engaged staff. We even spotted homage to #MihoSatake ‘s umbrella illustrations on a sign made to advertise the event in-store!
Come see us! We’ve practiced our signatures! 1 p.m. today (Sunday) at #1339. #alaac25 #spiritedaway
June 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Come see us! We’ve practiced our signatures! 1 p.m. today (Sunday) at #1339. #alaac25 #spiritedaway
So much love for these #SachikoKashiwaba lovers! #booksky
June 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
So much love for these #SachikoKashiwaba lovers! #booksky
It was a privilege to introduce The Village Beyond the Mist at #NYC's @japansociety.org, with Peter Tatara moderating and Mari Morimoto interpreting. The signing line included a that-day graduate, fans who had read the book growing up in #Japan, and former #Kansas dwellers. Worlds converged!
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It was a privilege to introduce The Village Beyond the Mist at #NYC's @japansociety.org, with Peter Tatara moderating and Mari Morimoto interpreting. The signing line included a that-day graduate, fans who had read the book growing up in #Japan, and former #Kansas dwellers. Worlds converged!
When translating #kidlit helps you meet @katemilford.bsky.social and ask her to sign the stack of library books by her that you have been reading! 🥰
So appreciated Kate’s leadership of a conversation with Sachiko Kashiwaba about The Village Beyond the Mist, at the Chatham Square Library in #NYC!
So appreciated Kate’s leadership of a conversation with Sachiko Kashiwaba about The Village Beyond the Mist, at the Chatham Square Library in #NYC!
June 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When translating #kidlit helps you meet @katemilford.bsky.social and ask her to sign the stack of library books by her that you have been reading! 🥰
So appreciated Kate’s leadership of a conversation with Sachiko Kashiwaba about The Village Beyond the Mist, at the Chatham Square Library in #NYC!
So appreciated Kate’s leadership of a conversation with Sachiko Kashiwaba about The Village Beyond the Mist, at the Chatham Square Library in #NYC!
What a pleasure to discuss The Village Beyond the Mist with Sachiko Kashiwaba and Kalyani Saxena at @thecoolidge.bsky.social, thanks to @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social!
June 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
What a pleasure to discuss The Village Beyond the Mist with Sachiko Kashiwaba and Kalyani Saxena at @thecoolidge.bsky.social, thanks to @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social!
Savored a pre-event visit with Japan- and Massachusetts-based author Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social. My journey toward translating Sachiko Kashiwaba’s The Village Beyond the Mist began with translating a story by Kashiwaba-san for the #YA anthology TOMO, edited by Holly. www.hatbooks.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Savored a pre-event visit with Japan- and Massachusetts-based author Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social. My journey toward translating Sachiko Kashiwaba’s The Village Beyond the Mist began with translating a story by Kashiwaba-san for the #YA anthology TOMO, edited by Holly. www.hatbooks.com
Stopped by the #Wichita Public Library short-story dispenser at #ICT airport today. Enjoying some #kidlit by @kristy-nuttall.bsky.social as I head out to meet #SachikoKashiwaba for book tour. Stories are so needed right now—of generous cake-baking dinosaurs, brave mountain-climbing sixth graders…
June 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Stopped by the #Wichita Public Library short-story dispenser at #ICT airport today. Enjoying some #kidlit by @kristy-nuttall.bsky.social as I head out to meet #SachikoKashiwaba for book tour. Stories are so needed right now—of generous cake-baking dinosaurs, brave mountain-climbing sixth graders…
@brainvsbook.bsky.social Thank you for sharing this site! I used "kendama" with stealth (ish) glossing in The Village Beyond the Mist. Hope it helps prep some audiences to handle the word on its own.
June 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@brainvsbook.bsky.social Thank you for sharing this site! I used "kendama" with stealth (ish) glossing in The Village Beyond the Mist. Hope it helps prep some audiences to handle the word on its own.
Catch Sachiko Kashiwaba and me on our upcoming tour to launch The Village Beyond the Mist in the US! #SachikoKashiwaba #kidlit #japankidlit #worldkidlit #translation 🧵
June 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Catch Sachiko Kashiwaba and me on our upcoming tour to launch The Village Beyond the Mist in the US! #SachikoKashiwaba #kidlit #japankidlit #worldkidlit #translation 🧵