Outlandish

Outlandish

When I served on New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing list committee for almost a decade, every year I would listen to my sophisticated, worldly children's librarians discuss translated books for kids and try to explain their deep-seated discomfort. Bookstore owners...

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Published in:School Library Journal 2017-04, Vol.63 (4), p.28
Main Author: Bird, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Academic libraries
Book fairs
Bookstores
Children & youth
Childrens literature
Childrens picture books
Collection development
Computer Assisted Instruction
Cultural Pluralism
Librarians
Library associations
Library Personnel
Picture Books
Public libraries
Publishing
Reading
Teachers
Translation
Translations
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Summary:When I served on New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing list committee for almost a decade, every year I would listen to my sophisticated, worldly children's librarians discuss translated books for kids and try to explain their deep-seated discomfort. Bookstore owners Jeff Garrett and Nina Garrett of Bookends and Beginnings in Evanston, IL, spend a great deal of time finding and selling foreign and translated children's literature titles and face this issue regularly. In 2011, I attended the Bologna Book Fair, the international event where the foreign rights for children's books are bought and sold from (that year) 65 different countries. [...]plenty of South African children's books have been published in the U.S." As for Latin American countries, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia have, what Marcus calls, "vibrant publishing scenes," best exemplified at the annual Guadalajara Book Fair. A World of Resources Books Give Your Child the World: Raising Globally Minded Kids One Book at a Time by Jamie C. Martin (Zondervan, 2016). A World of Books in Translation (Riveting Reads) by Daniel Hahn and Joy Court (School Library Association, 2017). Periodicals Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature (ibby.org/bookbird) published quarterly by International Board of Books for Young People. Articles "Of Translations and Tarantulas: What's at Stake When American Children Read Books from Other Countries" by Jeffrey Garrett in Crossing Boundaries with Children's Books , edited by Doris Gebel (Scarecrow, 2006).
ISSN:0362-8930