We’re always keen to hear from new book reviewers and contributors to World Kid Lit blog. Please read the following guidelines first.

Submissions guidelines

We are open to submissions of feature articles, book reviews, and interviews focused on world literature for young people for World Kid Lit blog. What do we mean by this? See here for how we define it at World Kid Lit.

Blog posts are ideally 800-1000 words max.

For book reviews, please download and use this book reviews template:

Please browse the blog to see the kinds of posts we have published. Here are a few examples of the types of articles we prefer:

• book reviews (ideally 3 books on a theme, of a genre, or for the same age group): Jewish Books Around the World | Science and the Sea in Eerdmans New Releases | Spunky Girls in Asian Kidlit
• not yet in English (features on authors and reviews of books still to be translated): YA books from Argentina | Breaking the Taboo: Books about Death | Seeking a Publisher 2024: Africa
• interviews: Interview with Chinese illustrator Zhu Chengliang | Translating Brazilian magic (translator interview) | Reading Africa Week 2022 – Interview with author Laura Nsafou | Meet the Publisher: Greystone Kids
• country / language profiles (could include a list of recommended books with very short reviews): An overview of children’s literature in Turkey | Vietnamese Children’s Books | Kids Read … Haiti | Malaysian authors and illustrators at the 38th IBBY Congress
• author / illustrator / translator profiles : Finnish illustrator Marika Maijala flourishes as an author | Roberto Piumini’s Italian Treasure Trove of Tales | Translator Daniel Hahn receives OBE for services to literature
• features (e.g. articles about global children’s literature and translation in libraries and schools, about inclusive international publishing, etc): Meet the Activist Librarian: Edwige Renee Dro | Korean picture books in France: an interview with Sungyup Lee and Cécile Boulaire | Multilingual inclusion in a UK secondary school: translating poetry at Creative Writing Club

We look forward to hearing from you!

Why write for us?

We are a community interest company supporting a vibrant international community passionate about diverse and inclusive children’s literature.

Our book reviews and blog posts are currently unpaid, although we hope to soon offer grants for research and writing about under-represented languages and literatures. Our contributors benefit in many ways:

• contributors receive advance reader copies (ARCs) of new releases in English and translations from around the world
• we coordinate reviews for venues such as European Literature Network and Words Without Borders, and regularly recommend writers for other venues including paid book reviews
• contributors can connect with a friendly, global community of advocates for inclusive children’s literature
• academic research impact: scholars can present their research to a global audience of the general public and children’s literature professionals