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Laura Watkinson
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Literary translator, lover of lemurs and lemon drizzle cake, wearer of silly hats, hoping for better things. She/her
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Laura Watkinson @laurawat.bsky.social · Jan 20
Still here. Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see... 💙☁️😀
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Three FREE online literary translation workshops as part of Flip Through Flanders with Liz Waters, P.C. Evans & me!
Info and sign up www.flandersliterature.be/literary-tra...
Literary Translation Workshops 2025 | Flanders literature
www.flandersliterature.be
June 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Hooray for Bird and friends! 🦜🐦🥳
societyofauthors.bsky.social The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · Jun 18
Congratulations to Tiny Fisscher, Illustrator Herma Starreveld and Translator Laura Watkinson the WINNERS of the Queen’s Knickers Award for Bird Is Dead (Greystone Kids, Greystone Books)

Queen’s Knickers judge Davina Hamilton said:
‘Bird Is Dead was a standout story for me ...
June 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Ihara Saikaku was probably the greatest writer of male/male love stories of the Edo Period (1603-1868).

Saikaku’s most famous book about male/male love specifically is called Nanshoku okagami, published in 1687 and translated by Paul Gordon Schalow as The Great Mirror of Male Love.
June 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Aanstaande maandag geef ik een webinar voor de Vlaamse Grootouders voor het klimaat. Voor zover ik weet kun je ook meedoen als je geen grootouder of Vlaming bent. www.grootoudersvoorhetklimaat.be/events/lees-...
Drie kinderboeken over klimaatverandering: Scheten uit de schoorsteen (4+), Palmen op de Noordpool (8+) en Rugzwemmen (10+)
June 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Delighted that 'Bird Is Dead' by Tiny Fisscher & Herma Starreveld (trans. by me, publ. by @greystonebooks) has not only been shortlisted for @societyofauthors Queen’s Knickers Award (founded by Nicholas Allan) but is also a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year. Well done, Bird and pals! 🥳🎉
June 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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
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In Manhattan’s Chinatown on Wednesday, June 25, at 5:30 p.m., Sachiko Kashiwaba and I will converse with New York Times-bestselling author @katemilford.bsky.social at the Chatham Square Library 📚: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
The Village Beyond the Mist | Author Sachiko Kashiwaba and Translator Avery Fischer Udagawa in conversation with Kate Milford
Join author Sachiko Kashiwaba and translator Avery Fischer Udagawa in conversation with Kate Milford about Kashiwaba's The Village Beyond the Mist, the book that inspired Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Awa...
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June 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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THRILLED that The No-Girlfriend Rule by @bycrandall.bsky.social is included in the CBI Read with Pride guide 🏳️‍🌈 'This charming LGBTQ+ coming of age story shows us that we can discover the most about ourselves in the unlikeliest of places' 🌈

More Pushkin pride coming soon!
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childrensbooksireland.ie Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie · Jun 3
🌈Pride guide 2025🌈

The 2025 Read with Pride Guide has arrived! Inside you will find 100 recommended titles and 100 ‘read also’ suggestions. That’s 200 books celebrating LBGTQ+ love, joy, and identity.

Find out more and download for free ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommen...

#ReadWithPride
The cover of the Pride Guide is superimposed over an image of a blue sky with a Pride flag waving behind it.
June 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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#mswl reminder: I am still on the hunt for standout trans/genderqueer voices, particularly in YA but also MG, from speculative to gorgeously written coming-of-age. My partner is trans/nb, I’m genderfluid, and I will never stop championing genderqueer authors
a green and purple striped heart with a green heart in the middle
Alt: a green and purple and white striped heart, the colors of the genderqueer flag
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May 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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IN MEMORIAM AFLEVERING JAN TERLOUW

Jan Terlouw had nooit gedacht schrijver te worden, maar wordt nu vooral herdacht als de auteur van een rijk kinderboekenoeuvre. In dit In Memoriam staan we stil bij zijn boeken en de betekenis van zijn schrijverschap

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May 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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An island of strangers? Just imagine British children's books without the work of migrants & their children – all of these & more!
www.sfsaid.com/2017/02/one-...
Graphic showing British children's book covers: Matilda, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Meg and Mog, Coming To England, The Gruffalo, Who's Going On A Bear Hunt, Horrid Henry, Journey To The River Sea, A Monster Calls, How I Live Now, Noughts & Crosses, The Girl Of Ink & Stars, Tall Staroy, Oliver & The Seawigs, Face, Varjak Paw
May 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Small thing but nice...
cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · May 2
STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY
May 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers.
www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/

#BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚
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April 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Reading is a radical act. Every time a child picks up a book, new possibilities open up that were not there before. And it has the biggest positive impact of all factors on children's life chances! Every time you help a kid to read for pleasure, you will change their lives FOREVER. #literacy #books
March 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Feit en fictie over mazelen, vaccins, God, bijwerkingen, autisme. Uit kinderboek Viruswereld.
Ware en onware beweringen over vaccins, met illustraties van Wendy Panders. Uit: https://marcterhorst.nl/kinderboeken/viruswereld/
March 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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ibby-nl.bsky.social
Hallo beste blauwe lucht liefhebbers! Vanaf nu is @ibby-nl.bsky.social ook op BlueSky te vinden. Wil je weten wat we allemaal bij IBBY NL doen, neem een kijkje op onze website: www.ibby-nederland.nl Alle kinderen hebben het recht om een lezer te worden.
#BringingBooksandChildrenTogether
Welkom bij IBBY-Nederland | IBBY Nederland
IBBY-Nederland is de nationale sectie van de International Board on Books for Young People. IBBY zet zich in voor het recht van elk kind om een lezer te worden...
www.ibby-nederland.nl
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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March 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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We zijn er ook: in de Grote Vriendelijke Blauwe Lucht!

De Grote Vriendelijke Podcast is een podcast voor volwassenen over jeugdliteratuur. We maakten inmiddels 136 afleveringen en gaan nog héél lang door.

Volg ons als je alles over kinderboeken wilt weten of gewoon voor de gezelligheid.
March 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I love fairytale retellings, especially if they're done like this! Thank you @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social

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Netgalley Review: Girls – Annet Schaap
Of course, I could have read this book in Dutch. However, for some reason I had never heard about this book before I stumbled upon it on Netgalley. I requested a digital review copy and Pushkin Pre…
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March 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Interrail-passen in de uitverkoop:
casplz.bsky.social Cas @casplz.bsky.social · Mar 11
Interrail fans opgelet. Het voorjaar staat voor de deur en dus start Interrail de Spring Sale.

Vanaf nu krijg je voor de rest van de maand 15% korting op Interrail Global Passes!

Zelf bestellen? Of de prijzen met korting zien? Klik hieronder 👇🏻
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Interrail Global Pass for Europe
The Interrail Global Pass is the fun and cheap way to see more of Europe. Travel to up to 33 countries with one train pass!
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March 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Vacature! Querido❤️
March 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Don't skip this interview with WWB contributors Ahmed Naji and Katharine Halls!
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Feb 12
"I wanted to explore masculinity and brotherhood, dreams as a means of escape, a space of signs and prophecies. Above all, it is a meditation on literature and books—on how reading and writing have the power to save us, even in the darkest places."
McSweeney’s Books: An Interview with Author Ahmed Naji and Translator Katharine Halls
Katharine Halls won the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her work as translator of Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I've signed up for this. Can't draw but willing to try! ❤️💕
worldkidlit.bsky.social worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · Feb 4
Join French author/illustrator Sandrine Kao as she leads this special ♥️love♥️themed draw-along session as part of the
@societyofauthors.bsky.social French Week 2025

Free!

Register here: societyofauthors.org/event/french...

#SoAatHome #TranslationPrizes #PicturesMeanBusiness #FeelGoodFriday
February 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Mandana Chaffa uses the otherworldly premise of Anton Hur's novel Toward Eternity as a springboard to discuss Hur's path to translation, community, and immortality. Read their conversation: https://buff.ly/3EfPPnP
“Making Space for Each Other”: Anton Hur on Toward Eternity, Translation, and Immortality - Words Without Borders
Mandana Chaffa uses the otherworldly premise of Anton Hur's novel Toward Eternity to discuss Hur's path to translation, community, and immortality.
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February 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM