#WITMonth: What We Shared This August: Women in Translation Month 2026

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Today’s post comes to you from Angie Erickson This month took us from corporate offices in Seoul and the Canary Islands to Sámi boarding schools in Sweden, dinner tables in Paris, forests in Scandinavia, seventeenth-century Delft, contemporary Tokyo, and dystopian worlds where memory, language, and autonomy are under threat. Alongside our #WITMonth posts, #WorldKidLit introduced us … Continue reading #WITMonth: What We Shared This August: Women in Translation Month 2026

#WITMonth: Exploring the Beauty of Life and its Relationships Under Authoritarian Rule

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Today’s post comes to you from Veronica Jansen Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police  Memory is a funny thing. It has the power to haunt or evade us, to be selectively chosen or forgotten, or to be remembered from one point of view while the other remains overlooked. Like most things in life, the human obsession with … Continue reading #WITMonth: Exploring the Beauty of Life and its Relationships Under Authoritarian Rule

#WITMonth: Cozy Movie Night with a Classic German Murder Mystery

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Today’s post comes to you from Kim Tyo-Dickerson Why You Should Watch "The Sheep Detectives" and Read "Three Bags Full"… in Any Order “Justice!” bleated Othello. “Justice!” bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn’s sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd” - Three Bags Full During the summer … Continue reading #WITMonth: Cozy Movie Night with a Classic German Murder Mystery

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Little House That Needed a Witch

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A picturesque two story house with chicken legs walks with a blue sky and green/yellow grass

"Deep in the forest sat a little house. The witch who lived in the house was very old. She was so old even her wrinkles were wrinkled. But one day she went for a walk and never returned.” So starts The Little House That Needed a Witch, a whimsically charming picture book for readers age … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Little House That Needed a Witch

#WITMonth: “Punished”

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Today’s post comes to you from Nadine Bailey Ann-Helén Laestadius’s Punished is a profound, deeply unsettling exploration of systemic oppression, extinguishing of language, intergenerational trauma, and the enduring struggle to reclaim cultural identity. It is a narrative based on the author’s family story* that forces readers to confront a dark and often overlooked chapter of Scandinavian … Continue reading #WITMonth: “Punished”

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Secrets Below

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Twelve-year-old Tuva has always felt different from her classmates. In the past, they’ve bullied her. Now, “at best, they ignore” her. But until people from Tuva's Stockholm archipelago go missing--even a classmate--she has no idea why she doesn't fit in nor how different she really is. Accompanied by new kid Rasmus, who befriends her, Tuva … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Secrets Below

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Mountain of Fire: Into the Heart of Volcanoes

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reddish brown earth with gray lines of an eruption into white clouds and a blue-green sky, with black letters

Budding volcanologists rejoice! Young scientists roll up your sleeves! As for the rest of the world, get ready to rock! Mountain of Fire: Into the Heart of Volcanoes is a fascinating nonfiction book about volcanoes for middle grade readers. And perhaps it may even inspire a few young readers to turn an early volcanic passion … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Mountain of Fire: Into the Heart of Volcanoes

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Ghosts of Pandora Pickwick

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In the deep, dark, frigid days of winter, what could be more fun than curling up in a blanket with a shivery ghost story? Set during summer vacation, The Ghosts of Pandora Pickwick is a wonderful combination of two evergreen middle grade tropes: the aforementioned ghost tale and an adoption/origin story. Protagonist Mia Jones has … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Ghosts of Pandora Pickwick

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Okchundang Candy

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Okchundang Candy 옥춘당 by Jung-soon Go 고정순Translated from Korean by Aerin ParkLevine Querido, March 2025 “I still remember that house filled with summer lingering.”  As the story opens, the narrator leads us back into the summers she spent with her grandparents, Mr. Go Jadong and Ms. Kim Soonim. Words rendered in crayon carry a handlettered … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Okchundang Candy

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Born a Girl: It Takes Courage

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a cluster of five girls of different ethnicities against a reddish-orange backgraound with green, purple, and orange leaves around them and white lettering for the title and subtitle in the upper left corner

Equal parts Our Bodies, Ourselves, Margaret Mead, and biology/history explainer, Born a Girl: It Takes Courage is an approachable feminist manifesto for today's teens that embraces difficult topics. Organized around the fictionalized stories of five teenage girls---one each from Nepal, France, Afghanistan, Kenya, and Mexico---this nonfiction YA illustrated book lays out a frank, sympathetic description … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Born a Girl: It Takes Courage