Booksellers

Celebrate #WorldKidLitMonth in your bookstore!

Welcome, booksellers! Celebrated worldwide, #WorldKidLitMonth 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? Here’s a few ideas…

Create a #WorldKidLitMonth 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 WKL Recommended Reads page for lists of classic translations for young readers, including 20th Century classics (think Pippi Longstocking, Asterix, The Little Prince and the Moomins), and 21st Century favourites (e.g. The Murderer’s Ape, Akissi, Batchelder Award winners such as Temple Alley Summer, and Netflix-serialized classic The Letter for the King).

World Kid Lit Month bookshop at Orpington Library, UK

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, you could create a display with a map of the world showing where the different books come from. A great way to visualize where we can travel to with global literature!

Please share your pictures on social media with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth!

What’s new from around the world?

Here on World Kid Lit blog, we publish a list each year of new releases so you can keep abreast of the latest new books in translation for your younger customers. You’ll find all the annual lists here, and the latest list is always pinned to the top of the blog on our home page.

You’ll find books by browsing on our WKL Recommended Reads page, or exploring the World Kid Lit resources by age category, by country or continent, or by language of origin. If you’re looking for bilingual books, take a look at this page.

Other great places to find international books include:

#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.

To request recommendations of books translated from a certain language, or from a certain region of the world, please tag us with a question on Twitter @worldkidlit, or Instagram at @worldkidlit; we’ll be glad to share our ideas, and tag others who might know great books to recommend.

Be a #WorldKidLit champion!

We would love to hear from more booksellers who would like to write about global kids’ books for World Kid Lit blog (take a look at recent 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 #WorldKidLitMonth.

You can also join the conversation on the World Kid Lit Facebook group, or tag us on social media to tell us about world literature events in your store; we’ll happily retweet/share. To send us your news, please tag us on Twitter @worldkidlit, on Instagram at @worldkidlit, or email us at worldkidlit@gmail.com. The hashtag #worldkidlit is used all year round, and #worldkidlitmonth is used throughout September.