Here at World Kid Lit, we keep track of published translations for young readers, to help readers find books from around the world.
These lists cover children’s and YA titles (picture books, middle grade and YA fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction and poetry), translated into English from any language, anywhere, published since 2017.
If you know of any titles we’re missing, please send us the details via this Google form. It’s never too late to tell us about a translation, or send us corrections. Thank you!
Wherever possible, we #namethetranslator and list the country and language the book was first published in. For example, [Hindi, India] means it has been translated from Hindi, and the original Hindi edition was published in India.
Happy travels … wherever in the world your reading journey takes you!
We’re still adding titles to this list, so please get in touch (via our Google form) if you know of any we’re missing. So far, we know of 185 books translated from 19 languages.
At the last count, the 2024 list featured 140 books translated into English from 27 languages.
At the last count, the 2023 list featured over 200 books translated into English from 20 languages.
At the last update, we listed 180 books for 2023, translated from 30 languages.
At the time of the last update, we counted 260 books for 2021. Of these 260, 170 were translations of books first published in Europe; 90 were from Asia, Australasia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. It was around 35 from the Americas, 45 from Asia, and just 10 books translated from Africa and the Middle East.
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