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🌏 World literature for young readers
🌏 Helping you and the young people in your life to #ReadTheWorld
🌏 Inclusive, diverse, international and translated kid lit and YA
🌏 Year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth ✨️
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worldkidlit.bsky.social
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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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…
worldkidlit.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
worldkidlit.bsky.social
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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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 …
worldkidlit.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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publisherswkly.bsky.social
🔥 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.
#YAReads #BestBooks2025 buff.ly/FD1gAWW
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Including 2 picture books I translated, 1 from Spanish & 1 from Catalan.

🥰🥰

#worldkidlit #kidlit #xl8
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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ebyrbooks.bsky.social
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
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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averyudagawa.bsky.social
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
scbwi.bsky.social SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · Oct 14
Registration for the SCBWI 2026 New York Conference opens TODAY, October 14 @ 10am PST ! 🎉

⁠View the entire in-person line up on our website here: tinyurl.com/79hkf4ta

(and a special thank you to Merrill Rainey for making our gorgeous conference art www.littlerainey.com)

#scbwiNY26
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October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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sujeilugo.bsky.social
Terms/Criteria: www.ala.org/alsc/awardsg...
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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October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
worldkidlit.bsky.social
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
October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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sujeilugo.bsky.social
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...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
worldkidlit.bsky.social
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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Announcing the Children's Booker Prize | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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October 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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vonprice.bsky.social
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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#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…
vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog
April 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
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...
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
www.thetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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charlenedraws.bsky.social
Happy #diwali to all who celebrate! 🪔

#kidlit #kidlitart
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.
October 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
worldkidlit.bsky.social
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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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…
worldkidlit.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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ebyrbooks.bsky.social
Love seeing our GET ON YOUR BIKE in this blog post from Katy Dycus! ❤️🚲
October 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
worldkidlit.bsky.social
🌍📚 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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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 …
worldkidlit.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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ebyrbooks.bsky.social
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
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
worldkidlit.bsky.social
Illustrator + storyteller + dream-maker = Jeska Verstegen 🌟🖍️ If you don’t know her work yet, this is the moment. #WorldKidLit #kidlit #illustrator

worldkidlit.org/2025/10/07/m...
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…
worldkidlit.org
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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mariannedoherty.bsky.social
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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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
October 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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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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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.
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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anthonyetherin.bsky.social
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.
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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dulib.bsky.social
Why not borrow a banned book today?

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

#DULib #BannedBooksWeek
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
www.indexoncensorship.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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s-a-s-s.bsky.social
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
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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jcps-lms.bsky.social
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
October 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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pandora-books.bsky.social
The first line of "Fahrenheit 451" is: "It was a pleasure to burn." This is the essence of Donald Trump's appeal. Truly making America great would involve hard work. Keeping America angry? That's easy.

#bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #trump #maga #raybradbury #fahrenheit451 #booksky
A photo of Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451," in front of glowing embers.
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM