World Kid Lit

World Kid Lit

global literature for young people

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Author: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Literary translator (from Arabic, German and Russian into English), language teacher, director of World Kid Lit CIC, and non-stop reader
April 4, 2022May 17, 2024 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

How Do You Live? A Japanese Wonder

March 15, 2022February 28, 2026 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

#SeekingAPublisher: Arabic children’s book recommendations 2022

February 14, 2022February 28, 2026 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Little Quarantine People by Elena Klepikova and Ksenia Zemskova

February 7, 2022February 24, 2022 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

YA in Translation: An Overview

December 24, 2021March 30, 2023 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

December web round-up

December 21, 2021March 1, 2026 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Colorful: an interview with translator Jocelyne Allen 

December 9, 2021December 9, 2021 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

#ReadingAfrica: Ugandan Picture Books

December 8, 2021February 28, 2026 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

#ReadingAfrica: Children’s Literature panel today

December 7, 2021February 28, 2026 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Kids Read … Somalia

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

New developments from UK champions of translated children’s literature, Outside In World

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