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Japan

Cover of The Friends featuring an illustration of three boys playing soccer and hiding among bushes in front of a house in the background.

The Friends

Kazumi Yumoto

Cathy Hirano (Translator)

The Friends. Kazumi Yumoto. Translated by Cathy Hirano. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1996. Originally published as 夏の庭 (Natsu no niwa) in Japanese by Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd., in 1992. ISBN 9780374324605. 176 p. (Ages 10-14). Fiction.

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Cover of How Do You Live featuring an illustration of four young men in uniform walking together down a residential street with a starry night above and a cat in the foreground.

How Do You Live?

Genzaburō Yoshino

Bruno Navasky (Translator)

How Do You Live? Genzaburō Yoshino. Translated by Bruno Navasky. Foreword by Neil Gaiman. Algonquin Young Readers, 2021. This version originally published as 君たちはどう生きるか (Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka) in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten Publishers, in Tokyo, in 1982; first published in Japan in 1937. ISBN 9781616209773. 288 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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India

Cover of Dadaji's Painbrush featuring an illustration of a gentle looking grandfather with a paintbrush in his hands painting next to a small child who is doing a finger painting next to him. There is a stack of canvases behind them and foliage peaking out from the cover's edges. The background is a muted beige and the title is displayed in bright teal and orange.

Dadaji's Paintbrush

Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Ruchi Mhasane (Illustrator)

Dadaji’s Paintbrush. Rashmi Sirdeshpande. Illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane. Levine Querido, 2022. Originally published in the UK by Andersen Press. ISBN 9781646141722. 32 p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

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Cover of Jamlo Walks featuring an illustration of a young boy walking in a city landscape with a bag over his shoulder and a newspaper on the ground in the foreground. There is a cloudy vivid blue sky in the background and the title is displayed in a stylizes rugged white font.

Jamlo Walks

Samina Mishra

Tarique Aziz (Illustrator)

Jamlo Walks. Samina Mishra. Illustrated by Tarique Aziz. Puffin Books, 2021. First published by Puffin Random House India, Haryana, India, in 2021. ISBN 9780143453178. 32 p. (Ages 7-9). Nonfiction.

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China & Taiwan

Taiwan
Cover of Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village featuring an illustration of a small child sitting at a table near a window with trinkets on the sill on a chair with a backpack slung over the back. The illustration is in a green frame and surrounded by a pattern of green clovers.

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village

Fang Suzhen

Huang Xiumin (Translator)

Sonja Danowski

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village. Fang Suzhen. Translated by Huang Xiumin. Illustrated by Sonja Danowski. NorthSouth Books, 2015. Originally published in China by China Children’s Press and Publication Group. ISBN 9780735842168. 48 p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

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The Middle East & North Africa

Qatar
Cover for Mah and Me featuring an illustration of an older woman in a hijab-like shawl and patterned dress and what appears to be her grandson in overalls walking arm in arm in a rural setting.

Mah and Me

Ibtihaj Al-Harthi

Mah and Me. Ibtihaj Al-Harthi. Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2019. Originally published as أنا وماه in Arabic by Bloomsbury, in 2015, in Qatar. ISBN 9789927119675. 32 p. (Ages 4 and up). Picture book.

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