Given that May is already underway, a better suited title for this blog would be "April's African Lit Afterparty." But, April's guest blogs warrant revisiting regardless the month! Many thanks to our guest bloggers, Bridget Pitt, Caroline Kurtz, and Bridget Krone, who shared books spanning diverse genres and settings in the African continent--from Ethiopian life-writing, … Continue reading #African Lit: April Round Up
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#INTYALITMONTH: Italian YA in Translation
Written by Kim Beeman The list below is loosely, but mostly, young adult books, all translated from Italian into English. As I have discovered in my time in Italy, relatively few middle grade and young adult books have been translated from Italian into English. Last October was #ItalianLit month on GLLI, and this wrap-up post … Continue reading #INTYALITMONTH: Italian YA in Translation
Welcome to GLLI’s 2025 #IntlYALitMonth
It’s May – and time for the 5th annual International Young Adult Literature Month (#IntlYALitMonth) here on the Global Literature in Libraries (GLLI) blog. (Thank you, Karen Van Drie, for starting this tradition!) Just in case you missed the previous ones, below are links to the end-of-month summary list of each year’s offerings. 2021 – … Continue reading Welcome to GLLI’s 2025 #IntlYALitMonth
#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Keshav’s Kolam
In this story of community, set in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India, everybody in Keshav’s neighbourhood turns benefactor by adding to his kolam (a pattern drawn in front of a house, typically with rice flour) and creating a wondrous design at the end of it. The book begins with a boy named … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Keshav’s Kolam
The subversive power of love in South African picture books
Today's guest post is written by Bridget Krone. Bridget Krone lives and works in a village called Hilton just outside Pietermaritzburg, in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa. Her office looks onto a field where cows graze in the winter and cranes (both crowned and blue) visit in the summer. She has … Continue reading The subversive power of love in South African picture books
Congratulations to the 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize winner & honor books
The 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) Translated Young Adult Book Prize Committee is pleased to announce the winner and honor books for the 2025 prize. This is the seventh year of the prize and twenty-five books in fourteen languages, published within the past three years, were submitted by publishers. Winner The 2025 winner … Continue reading Congratulations to the 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize winner & honor books
#WorldKidLit Wednesday: How Do You Eat Color
Get ready for a riot of colors and a garden of savory flavors! A nonfiction picture book for ages 4-7, How Do you Eat Color explodes off the page with vivid images of delicious fruits and vegetables that are as delightful to read about as they are enticing to imagine munching on. The book begins, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: How Do You Eat Color
The story of 20th century Ethiopia through The Wife’s Tale, a memoir by Aida Edemariam
Today's guest post is by Caroline Kurtz. Caroline Kurtz is the author of three memoirs: A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing Up in Ethiopia and America; Today is Tomorrow; and Walking the Tideline: Loss and Renewal on the Oregon Coast Trail. From the age of five, Caroline grew up in Ethiopia, the child of … Continue reading The story of 20th century Ethiopia through The Wife’s Tale, a memoir by Aida Edemariam
#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Fox Maidens
Ha, the Korean-born author/illustrator of the bestselling YA graphic novel Almost American Girl returns to the popular genre with a story rooted in the medieval-era folklore of the country she left at the age of 14. The Fox Maidens is based on the legend of Gumiho, a nine-tailed fox with magical powers and in many stories, a taste for … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Fox Maidens
Death by Music: Zakes Mda and the Zama Zama
Today's blog post is a review of Wafarers' Hymns, a novel written by South African novelist Zakes Mda. Guest written by Bridget Pitt. Bridget Pitt is a South African author and environmental activist who has published poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and three novels (Unbroken Wing, Kwela, 1998; The Unseen Leopard, Human & Rousseau, 2010; Notes from the … Continue reading Death by Music: Zakes Mda and the Zama Zama
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