Today’s post comes to you from Cynthia Green YA & TCK Today’s topic is particularly intriguing because to date, Third Culture Kids (TCKs) is not an established publishing genre, doesn’t have a fixed definition, and is not broadly recognized—including by “TCKs” themselves, their parents, teachers and therapists. In fact, I didn’t know that I had “grown … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Third Culture Kids
Today’s post comes to you from Eleanor Duggan Remembering Through Panels with Year of the Rabbit After reading Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon, I became deeply intrigued with Cambodian history. Part of that curiosity came from the realisation of how little I knew about this chapter of … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Cambodia
A youth classic gets the graphic treatment Zeina Abirached's graphic adaptation of The Prophet is a big beautiful book and a wonderful way to introduce young adults to Kahlil Gibran's classic collection of 26 prose poems, which has never been out of print since its 1923 publication. Watch this one-minute video provided by the publisher … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: The Prophet in Black & White
Part thriller, part nostalgic political critique, Alexei Ivanov's The Food Block (2024, translated from Russian by Richard Coombes and published by Glagoslav Publications) takes place in a pioneer camp on the banks of the Volga set against the backdrop of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The Food Block (Пищеблок) was originally published in 2018, and was … Continue reading #INTLYA Month: Vampires and Collectivism in ‘The Food Block’
Today’s post comes to you from Kate London 'Things Have a Soul' - Werner Abresch (1941 – 2024) Stell Dir Vor! Comics über die Nachkriegszeit (Imagine! : Comics about the postwar period) by Tobi Dahmen, Julia Bernhard, Melanie Garanin, Mikael Ross, Volker Schmitt, and Julia Zejn Werner Abresch was a pastor and avid collector of memories. … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: How Germany Remembers
Today’s post comes to you from Sally Cameron The Gap on the Shelf It is remarkable how stories entwine us, often in the most unexpected ways. Whether it’s a librarian looking at a gap on a shelf or a mother writing the very books she wants her daughter to see, books have an incredible power to … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: West African Mythology
Today’s post comes to you from Nadine Bailey A Decade in the Making, a Lifetime to Forget: The Andes Disaster in Graphic Form Shadows on the Ice - The 1972 Andes DisasterBy: Frédéric Bertocchini (Writer), Thierry Diette (Artist), Pascal Nino (Colors)Format: Graphic novelLanguage: Translated from French by Andrew BenteauISBN: 978-1-990521-29-4Audience: 16+Published by: Black Panel Press - … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Shadows on the Ice
Today’s post comes to you from Laura Simeon When it comes to international literature for young people, works by contemporary writers from Africa deserve more attention. While “young adult” as a publishing category isn’t as widely established in many countries as it is in the U.S. and U.K., there’s a pool of literary talent from across … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: The Richness of African YA Fiction
Today’s post comes to you from Joyce Chua See this sample list of #SingLit YA books... Does YA Fiction Still Have a Place in the Attention Economy? We live in an attention-deficit age. With access to streaming services, news, podcasts, video and mobile games, a plethora of social media platforms and more, it is now the … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: A Singapore Perspective
Today’s post comes to you from Yue (Cathy) Wang China's Missing Genre: The Struggle for YA Literature In today’s Chinese children’s book market, the YA category is relatively underdeveloped. Back in the 1980s, Chen Danyan 陈丹燕 wrote the novella Death of a Schoolgirl 女中学生之死, based on a real event that happened in Shanghai in the 1980s—the suicide of … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Chinese YA Literature
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