Welcome to the last day of #WorldKidLit month 2025 on GLLI!
Thank you so much for joining us over the last month to celebrate #WorldKidLit month. This year’s focus on GLLI was on European books, largely in translation. Here is a complete list of this month’s posts, arranged by country:
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
The Netherlands
Russia
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- Neurodiversity and Identity in Scottish Middle Grade Fiction
- Wee Words and Big Stories – How Scots and Gaelic Are Making a Comeback in Kids’ Books
Various
Please leave a comment below if you have read or purchased any of the recommended titles! Even though #WorldKidLit month is drawing to a close, GLLI has a new #WorldKidLit post every Wednesday – you can see them here.
If you are still in need of inspiration, the World Kid Lit website has a fantastic guide to new translations coming out in 2025!
A huge thank you to Stephanie Roelling, Suji DeHart, Annie Harris, Kelsey Hedrick, Angela Roberts, Nadine Bailey, Lisa Miller, Staci Fox, Angie Erickson, Mairin Raisdana, and Kim Tyo-Dickerson for their posts this month – we hope you enjoyed reading along! See you back here next year!
Kim Beeman is currently living in Rome. Before moving to Italy, Kim spent over a decade in Asia, working as a librarian at Shrewsbury International School in Bangkok and Tanglin Trust School in Singapore. She also co-founded the International School Librarians in Europe conference, and is a member of the advisory board for the Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop. Before working in school libraries, Kim worked as a cookbook librarian at The French Culinary Institute in New York City for many years, where she completed the professional culinary program and was certified as a sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers. [LinkedIn]
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 
What a wonderful month on the blog! Mishka (the Netherlands, “Hope Hops in Mishka”) is one of my favourites. Very intimate, both in the storytelling and the artwork.
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