#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: Chasing Miracles: Finding Meaning in the Flutter of Wings

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Today’s post comes to you from Helle Kirstein Lea Korsgaard’s "The Butterfly Season" The Butterfly Season is not only a guide to Danish butterflies, but first and foremost a guide to attention. By the end of the book, you are not just enlightened about entomology; you are infected by the author’s zeal to be more attentive. … Continue reading #WITMonth: Chasing Miracles: Finding Meaning in the Flutter of Wings

#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

#WITMonth: “The Colony” by Annika Norlin

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"The Colony" by Annika Norlin (2023), the debut novel of a Swedish pop star, translated into English by Alice E. Olsson (2025) In the spring of 2023, a lone, burned-out journalist escapes the city and heads up to a remote village to live in a tent, trying for a bit of a nature cure, a … Continue reading #WITMonth: “The Colony” by Annika Norlin

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Little House That Needed a Witch

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"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: “Just a Little Dinner” by Cecile Tlili

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Today’s post comes to you from Angie Erickson The dinner party may be one of literature’s most easily translated pressure chambers. Four people sit down intending to perform friendship, coupledom, sophistication, and hospitality; by dessert, the performance has collapsed. This is the setup of Just a Little Dinner, Katherine Gregor’s English translation of Cécile Tlili’s 2023 … Continue reading #WITMonth: “Just a Little Dinner” by Cecile Tlili

#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