Resources for Booksellers

Welcome, booksellers! Here are some useful links and resources to help you bring the world to your bookstore!

World Kid Lit Month

Every September, World Kid Lit Month is the perfect opportunity to showcase global literature for younger readers, including books, authors and illustrators from other countries, and books in translation from other languages.

How will you celebrate in your bookstore? You’ll find LOTS of ideas across our website, including ways to celebrate World Kid Lit Month, reading prompts and bingo charts, and age-specific book lists.

We have hundreds of book reviews and creator interviews on our blog, introducing you to books from over 180 countries and translated from over a 100 different languages.

Create a World Kid Lit Month display

World Kid Lit Month display at Bear Bookshop, UK

You may be surprised how many children’s and YA books from other countries you already have on your shelves. Take a look at our Read the World page for lists of books by continent, classic translations for young readers, including 20th century classics and more recent bestsellers.

You could make a World Kid Lit Month window display, a table, or a shelf dedicated to books from around the world. If you have wall space, why not decorate a map of the world with staff picks for different countries? Please share your pictures on social media with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth!

World Kid Lit Month events in your bookshop

For promoting international authors and world literature, the following types of events usually go down well with families:

  • interactive creative translation workshop, or multilingual creative writing workshop. We have lots of experience at running these here at World Kid Lit; please ask us for more info!
  • translation slam, or translator duel: two literary translators discuss their translations of a children’s text, perhaps a well-known classic, and the audience discovers more about the subjective craft of translation
  • Read the World treasure hunt: interactive activity for budding sleuths, discovering books from around the world and how we can travel by book

Please get in touch with Ruth if you’d like to partner with World Kid Lit on hosting an international kid lit/YA event in your store.

#WorldKidLitMonth discounts, and book bundles

Whether you sell books online or in-store, you could offer curated book bundles for various age groups featuring books from a certain region of the world, translated from a certain language, or linked by theme.

Please browse our reading lists, and if there is a region of the world or topic you’d like ideas for, please get in touch!

Be a World Kid Lit champion!

Here at World Kid Lit blog, we always love hearing from booksellers who are passionate about global kids’ books. If you’d like to be interviewed about diverse children’s literature in your bookstore, here are some of our blog posts featuring booksellers for inspiration.

Please tell us on social media how you include diverse, international children’s books in your collection, which translated children’s and teen books have proven popular, and how your bookstore is celebrating World Kid Lit Month.

You can join the conversation about international literature for young people on Facebook, tag us on Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, or send us an email. The hashtag #WorldKidLit is used all year round, and #WorldKidLitMonth is used throughout September.

More resources

Other great places to find international books include: