A 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize Honor Book and the first fabulous volume in a sci-fi duology, Snowglobe is set in a post-apocalyptic, post-climate-change world. Life for the lower class is cold and brutal. Most labor daily to create electricity via giant human-powered hamster wheels, except for the lucky few who live in … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Snowglobe
This is the end of the 5th annual International Young Adult Literature Month (#IntlYALitMonth) here on the Global Literature in Libraries (GLLI) blog. (Again, thank you, Karen Van Drie, for starting this tradition!) Just in case you missed the previous events, below are links to the end-of-month summary list of each year’s offerings. 2021 – … Continue reading Wrap-up to GLLI’s 2025 #IntlYALitMonth
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
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
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 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
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 2025 GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize Committee is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 prize. This is the seventh year of the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize, which recognizes publishers, translators, and authors of books in English translation for young adult readers, aged 12 through 18 inclusive. Publisher submissions to the … Continue reading Announcing the Shortlist for the 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize
A sweet, otherworldly tale that’s billed as “the fantastic adventure that first inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved film, Spirited Away,” The Village Beyond the Mist is sure to charm. Set in a magical town hidden in a mysterious forest clearing, The Village Beyond the Mist is a delightful, multigenerational fantasy for middle grade readers about service. Is that … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Village Beyond the Mist
When Annick, an older teenager living in Amsterdam, learns that the grandmother who has raised her ever since her parents’ death in an accident, needs a bone marrow transplant, it leads her on a journey that will take her across oceans and continents, and almost 70 years into the past. Searching for a perfect match, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Song of a Blackbird
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