Today at 4 p.m. BST, we will host our final #WorldKidLit LIVE event, titled: “Why Translate KidLit?: A Talk with Translators Around the World“:
If you miss it, the hour-long event will appear next week at our YouTube channel. Don’t miss our September roundup of what’s been happening this month around the web with literature for young readers in translation. And, on this last day of September, we’ve also brought together our coverage of this year’s #WorldKidLit Month, September 2020.
We hope you’ve enjoyed it.
September 1: Welcome to #WorldKidLitMonth
September 2: Shadow Heroes – Bringing Translation into the Classroom
September 2: #WorldKidLitLIVE Presents “Making Kidlit Travel: How Translations Happen”
September 3: Fighting the Good Fight – Social Justice in (Translated) Children’s Books and Graphic Novels
September 6: Sunday Spotlight on Authors Writing in Languages Spoken by Few: Interview with Welsh Author Caryl Lewis
September 7: Interview with translator Elisabeth Lauffer about My Favorite Things
September 8: Julia Sherwood introduces a Slovak kidlit sensation.
September 9: Johanna McCalmont reviews the Afro YA Fiction Project Water Birds on the Lakeshore
September 10: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp talks to Tina Hartas from TripFiction about travelling the world in books
September 11: Publisher and translator Christopher Franceschelli discusses two new illustrated non-fiction books form the Ukraine
September 12: The Fabulous Lost and Found: an interactive bilingual storybook in 25+ languages
September 13: Sunday Spotlight with Harkaitz Cano
September 14: Publisher spotlight: global picture book champion Patricia Aldana
September 15: Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content goes fully digital with a programme of events on 3rd and 4th October 2020
September 16: Arctis Books Editor Alison Weiss in conversation with Lawrence Schimel
September 17: Building Bridges: Language and Cultural Exchange in Children’s Publishing from Wales
September 18: Book Review: 1,001 Creatures by Aino Järvinen and Laura Merz, translated by Emily Jeremiah
September 19: Book Review: Two books about children fleeing the Spanish Civil War
September 20: Coming up in week 4 of #WorldKidLitMonth!
September 21: Locked Down in South Asia: Kid Lit Goes Online
September 22: Dutch YA Lit Week: 18 – 27 September 2020
September 23: Green Bean Books – A recent newcomer specialising in Jewish children’s books
September 24: Translator Larissa Helena in conversation with Lawrence Schimel
September 25: Interview with Maria-Elisabeth Niebius from Little Gestalten
September 26: Paula Holmes’ WorldKidLitMonth Highlights
September 27: Children’s and YA books in translation from Arabic
September 28: September Web Round-up: literature for young people in translation around the internet
September 29: New releases in translation: October 2020
Also, you don’t have to trust us; these people also enjoyed #WorldKidLitMonth:
- World Kid Lit Month Kicks Off with Virtual Celebration by Pamela Brill (Publishers Weekly)
- Building Bridges: The Art of Children’s Book Translation, by Emma Kantor (Publishers Weekly)
- ‘Why I Love Kids’ Books in Translation’ By Rivka Galchen (Publishers Weekly)
- Shining a Light on Children’s Books in Translation: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp on World Kid Lit Month (Words Without Borders Dispatches)
- 6 Quick Ways to Get Started with Global Children’s Literature (Words Without Borders Campus)
- World Kid Lit Month: 3 book reviews by Ann Morgan (A Year of Reading the World)
- TRANSLATION: World Kid Lit Month by Julie Sullivan (Words & Pics, the online journal of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators)
- Translators Aloud: various translators read from their published work, featuring several children’s and YA books this month (Translators Aloud @ YouTube)
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