Posted on behalf of the World Kid Lit people
Win International Books for your School Library!
Do you have a Read the World display anywhere in your school?
Have any students (or staff) in your school completed a reading challenge or reading project with an international dimension this year?
If either is true, enter the Schools’ International Reading Award by 23 October and your school could win a 10-book bundle of international books!
Donated by our 18 publisher sponsors, these books are from or set in different countries, and many in translation from other languages.
Downloadable poster available plus more info here. Please email Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp at world.kid.lit@gmail.com if any questions!–
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World Kid Lit is the group who designated September as “World Kid Lit Month” ten years ago — and the one that just ended was a wonderful celebration on many different platforms. See their summary of the month’s activities here.
We were so pleased to have Avery Fischer Udagawa and Holly Thompson represent GLLI during World Kid Lit month by curating contributions with a focus on Japanese literature for young people. See their end-of-the-month round-up GLLI blog post here.
While I highly recommend you read through all their posts, see this PDF if you want to quickly browse a list of all 92 titles (sorted by author) which were mentioned in their posts during World Kid Lit Month this year. (Great for collection development….).
Note: The list was downloaded from our LibraryThing account and you can click on a title in the PDF to get more bibliographic information for that title in LibraryThing, e.g., for Sato the Rabbit below.
Katie Day is an international school teacher-librarian in Singapore and has been an American expatriate for over 40 years. She is currently on the GLLI Board and has served as the chair of the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize and co-chair of the Neev Book Award in India — as well as being heavily involved in international school librarian initiatives such as the Red Dot Book Awards in Singapore and the Siam Book Awards in Thailand.
Disclaimer: The opinions and views expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of GLLI.
