Here are a few frequently asked questions about World Kid Lit Month.

Who can take part in World Kid Lit Month?

Everyone, everywhere! It’s a completely open event for anyone to take part in. Young or old, children’s books are for everyone. You might use the month to tell others about your favourite international authors, or it might be a time to broaden your reading and diversify your bookshelves. If you use social media, please share what you read and discover with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth!

Do you have any images I can use to promote World Kid Lit Month?

Yes! You’ll find free graphics in our public Google drive here.

Please feel free to make your own graphics and posters for World Kid Lit Month, and share them on social media. And if you’d like to share any images you’ve created with other teachers/librarians etc, please email us and we would be happy to share them in this public drive.

What should I say about World Kid Lit Month on social media?

Want to post about #WorldKidLitMonth on social media or include a blurb about it in your community newsletter?

Please use any of the text on these pages to write a short blurb, or download the following PDF containing suggested texts and tweets:

How can I describe World Kid Lit Month in 120 words?

September is World Kid Lit Month: a month for young readers (and adult readers of children’s and YA literature) to travel the world through books. 

How to take part? Simply read a book for young people from another country, and share what you’ve read on social media with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth. 

You’ll find plenty of ideas of what to read at the World Kid Lit website: children’s books from – or set in – other countries, and fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and poetry translated into English from other languages. 

Whether it’s at school, in your local library or bookshop, or on social media, September is the perfect time to explore global reading for young people. 

Happy travels wherever you fly by book!

Why is World Kid Lit Month in September?

In the USA, September is National Translation Month. 26 September is European Day of Languages, and 30 September is both International Translation Day and St Jerome’s Day – the patron saint of translators!

How did World Kid Lit Month start?

The hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth was first used on social media in 2016 by global literature advocates Marcia Lynx Qualey (founding editor of ArabLit), Lawrence Schimel (bilingual poet, author, translator and publisher) and Alexandra Büchler (director of Literature Across Frontiers).

With this hashtag, and World Kid Lit blog which also started in 2016, a campaign emerged for more visibility for world literature within English-language children’s and YA publishing.

We continue to be part of a broader social campaign for inclusive and representative literature for children – books that represent our global population in all its diversity.