Welcome back to #WorldKidLit Month 2025. Today's post comes to us from Angie Erickson. Some books feel heavy because of what they hold. Mishka (2022), written by Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman, illustrated by Annet Schaap, and translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, feels light, even though it is about one of the heaviest things … Continue reading #WORLDKIDLIT MONTH 2025: HOPE HOPS IN ‘MISHKA’
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#WorldKidLit Month 2025: Roses & Violets
Welcome back to #WorldKidLit month on GLLI. Today's post comes to us from Mairin Raisdana. Published in 2019 and translated in 2023, Roses and Violets is the first book in the Rosenholm fantasy trilogy by Danish author Gry Kappel Jensen, translated by Sharon E. Rhodes. The book is set in Rosewood Boarding School, a school … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: Roses & Violets
#WorldKidLit Month 2025: Grimm’s Without Words
Welcome back to #WorldKidLit Month! I will recommend some excellent, traditional translations of the Brothers Grimm at the end of this post, but first I want to suggest that your collection or library needs a copy of Grimms Märchen ohne Worte (Grimm's Fairy Tales Without Words) no matter how many other editions of Grimm's you … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: Grimm’s Without Words
#WorldKidLit Month 2025: Marieke Nijkamp’s Ink Girls, Rebels of the Printed Word
Welcome back to #WorldKid Lit Month! Today's post about a graphic novel written by an author from the Netherlands comes to us from Kim Tyo-Dickerson. Ink Girls (2023), written by Marieke Nijkamp and illustrated by Sylvia Bi, is a vibrant, alternate history graphic novel starring three rebel girls fighting against censorship and corruption, a story … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: Marieke Nijkamp’s Ink Girls, Rebels of the Printed Word
#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Four Eisner- Nominated Graphic Novels in Translation
It’s that time of year again--or at least it was when I wrote this post: San Diego Comic Con! For those who may not know, San Diego Comic Con is a huge four-and-a-half day lollapalooza of an annual convention celebrating all things comics related. There are panels with authors and actors; talks about art, craft, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Four Eisner- Nominated Graphic Novels in Translation
#WorldKidLit Month 2025: ‘A Magician’s Flower’ by Finnish author and illustrator Marika Maijala
Welcome back to #WorldKidLit month at GLLI! Marika Maijala, a Finnish picture book author and illustrator, has a freshly translated book - A Magician's Flower - out with Elsewhere Editions. Her first picture book, Rosie Runs [see the GLLI review here], was selected for the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, and in 2020, Maijala was nominated for … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: ‘A Magician’s Flower’ by Finnish author and illustrator Marika Maijala
#WorldKidLit Month 2025: Claude Ponti
Welcome back to #WorldKidLit month! Today we will be looking at two picture books by French author and illustrator, Claude Ponti. Ponti's book feature fanciful illustrations and even more fantastical language - his books have been translated into 13 languages, but as FranceLivre noted, he can be a headache for translators, as the French in … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: Claude Ponti
#WorldKidLit Month 2025: Ukrainian Kid Lit
Today's post is from Kelsey Hedrick. See her earlier #WorldKidLit Month post about Russian here. Let’s start as well with a song from the 2022 Eurovision Contest - The Kalush Orchestra singing a techno folk song that celebrated Ukrainian culture and gave strength to the people fighting in the war. Anya and the Dragon (2019), … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: Ukrainian Kid Lit
#WorldKidLit Month 2025: Sergio Ruzzier
Welcome back to #WorldKidLit month! Today we will be looking at some more wonderful Italian picture books. Sergio Ruzzier is an Italian illustrator, author, and translator. He was a 2011 Sendak Fellow, won the Andersen Prize in Italy in 2023, and has had two of his books (Fox and Chick: The Party in 2019, and … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month 2025: Sergio Ruzzier
#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Monster in the Lake
When Eric, a timid mallard, hears a fellow duck suggest the group of four duck friends go down to the lake, he is alarmed. After all, a monster lives under the water, and it will pull them under. The others laugh at him. They say only fish and frogs live underwater, but Eric is convinced … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Monster in the Lake
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