Tag: Biography and Autobiography

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Japan

Cover for Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window featuring an illustration of a young girl sitting in a formal outfit with a white coat, white socks, black mary jane shoes, a white head covering, and a black brimmed hat with a multi-colored ribbon around it on. The entirety of the cover is simple and white and the text is displayed in black and pink in a serif font. There is a vintage style flourish at the top of the cover that is a pink line with a bouquet of roses at the center.

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Dorothy Britton (Translator)

Chihiro Iwasaki (Illustrator)

Totto-chan: the Little Girl at the Window. Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. Translated by Dorothy Britton. Illustrated by Chihiro Iwasaki. Paperback edition published by Kodansha, 2012. Originally published as 窓ぎわのトットちゃん (Madogiwa no Totto-chan) in Japanese, in 1981. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window was first published in English in 1982. ISBN 9781568363912. 232 p. (Ages 8 and up). Nonfiction.

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India

Cover of Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability featuring an close up abstract illustration of three people with glasses on and one pointing their finger and their forearm and hand spanning the foreground of the cover. There is a thick dark blue border along the top of the cover that is the same color of the clothing on the arm in the foreground where the title is displayed in white and other text is displayed in orange. Information is also displayed in white on the sleeve of the arm in the foreground.

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand

Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam (Illustrators)

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability. Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand. Illustrated by Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam. Navayana, 2011. First published by Navayana Publishing, in India, in 2011. Also available under the title Ambedkar: incidents in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar from Tate Publishing, London, in 2013. ISBN 9788189059170. 108 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

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Cover for The Girl Who Loved to Sing Teejan Bai featuring an illustration of the silhouette of a girl singing up to the sky with her arm outstretched and an instrument in her hand. In the background are the black silhouette of houses and two trees. The cover's background is red with a thick orange flourish down the center.

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai

Lavanya Karthik

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai. Lavanya Karthik. Duckbill Books, 2021. ISBN 978014351518. 48 p. (Ages 7-9). Nonfiction.

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China & Taiwan

China
Cover for Mao and Me featuring an illustration of a child in a chair with a schoolbag hanging on it reading Mao's Little Red Book with a portrait of Mao in the background. The background color is red and the text is gold.

Mao and Me

Chen Jiang Hong

Claudia Zoe Bedrick (Translator)

Mao and Me. Chen Jiang Hong. Translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick. Enchanted Lion Books, 2008. Originally published as Mao et moi in French by l’École des loisirs, in Paris, in 2008. ISBN 9781592700790. 96 p. (Ages 6-10). Picture book.

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The Middle East & North Africa

Palestine
Cover of Sitti's Bird: A Gaza Story featuring an illustration of a girl with rosy stylized cheeks and birds above her with cards in their mouths on a dark and starry blue purple background.

Sitti's Bird: A Gaza Story

Malak Mattar

Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story. Malak Mattar. Translated by Interlink staff. Crocodile Books, 2022. ISBN 9781623718251. 32 p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

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Lebanon
Cover for Stories from the Life of Prophet Muhammad featuring a more child-like hand drawn illustration of animals, characters, and settings including elephants, camels, people, and buildings emerging from behind a stylized column with what looks like palm tree fronds at the top. A sun illustration sits at the top of the cover halfway off the page and the background for the whole cover is bright red.

Stories from the Life of Prophet Muhammad

Nahiba Mheidly

Maha Alhusseini (Translator)

Louijaina al Aseel (Illustrator)

Stories from the Life of Prophet Muhammad. Nahiba Mheidly. Translated by Maha Alhusseini. Illustrated by Loujaina Al Aseel. Dar Alhadaek, 2021. ISBN 6144392661. 72 p. (Ages 7-12). Nonfiction.

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