Tag: Family

Japan

Cover for You Look Yummy! featuring an illustration of a dark greenish brown Tyranosaurus Rex walking with bird in the sky and volcanos and two other dinosaurs in the background. The ground is orange, the sky is white, and the title of the book is bright red.

You Look Yummy!

Tatsuya Miyanishi

Mariko Shii Garbi (Translator)

You Look Yummy! Tatsuya Miyanishi. Translated by Mariko Shii Garbi. Museyon, Inc., 2015. Originally published as おまえ うまそうだな (Omae Umasou dana) in Japanese by Poplar Publishing Co., Ltd., in 2003. ISBN 9781940842066. 40 p. (Ages 5-7). Picture book.

Africa South of the Sahara

Ghana
Cover for Grandma's List featuring an illustration of a young girl in a patterned dress runnng through a colorful market with people looking at her with curiosity and a piece of paper in her hand. The ground is a dusty orange and the buildings in the background are pink and yellow.

Grandma's List

Portia Dery

Toby Newsome (Illustrator)

Grandma’s List. Portia Dery. Illustrated by Toby Newsome. Windmill Books, 2021. Originally published by African Bureau Stories,Ghana, 2017. ISBN 9781499486322. 32 p. (Ages 5-7). Picture book.

Cover for The Kaya Girl featuring a realistic style illustration of a girl with an orange headscarf and blue shirt on carrying a large bowl on her head and the blurred shapes of people in the background. The book's title is displayed in dark red on top of the bowl.

The Kaya Girl

Mamle Wolo

Sasha Illingworth (Illustrator)

The Kaya Girl. Mamle Wolo. Illustrated by Sasha Illingworth. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2022. Originally published by Techmate Publishers Ltd., in Ghana, in 2012 and then by Nsona Books in 2018. ISBN 9780316703932. 336 p. (Ages 9 and up). Fiction.

South Africa
Cover for A Good Day for Climbing Trees featuring an illustration of an illustration of a large bushy tree with a boy underneath it looking up at a girl waving from the top of the tree. The background is yellow and there's is a small silhouette of houses in orange in the distance behind the tree. The book's title is displayed in white within the trees branches.

A Good Day for Climbing Trees

Jaco Jacobs

Kobus Geldenhuys (Translator)

Jim Tierney (Illustrator)

A Good Day for Climbing Trees. Jaco Jacobs. Translated by Kobus Geldenhuys. Illustrated by Jim Tierney. Rock the Boat, 2018. Originally published as ‘n Goeie dag vir boomklim in Afrikaans by Lapa, in South Africa, in 2015. ISBN 9781786073174. 160 p. (Ages 8-12). Fiction.

Cover for Here Comes Lolo featuring an illustration of a young girl in jeans, blue sneakers, and a pink floral t-shirt with white flowers on it with a car, house and clouds in the background. The cover's background is orange and the word "Lolo" in the title is displayed in large letters with each letter featuring a different colorful pattern. There is a border of yellow graphic flourishes along the top and bottom of the cover.

Here Comes Lolo

Niki Daly

Here Comes Lolo. Niki Daly. Catalyst Press, 2020. Originally published by Otter-Barry Books, in Great Britain, in 2019. ISBN 9781946395337. 78 p. (Ages 4-9). Fiction.

Cover for Small Mercies featuring an illustration from a bird's eye view of a girl in a blue dress and pants laying in a field of green grass with hands behind her head with a chicken beside her. Red, purple, and yellow flowers are above her as well as two yellow birds with black heads and a red bird with a black head. The book's title is displayed in a pinkish red.

Small Mercies

Bridget Krone

Karen Vermeulen (Illustrator)

Small Mercies. Bridget Krone. Illustrated by Karen Vermeulen. Catalyst Press, 2020. Subsequently published by Walker Books, London, in 2020. ISBN: 9781946395160. 162 p. (Ages 8-12). Fiction.

Nigeria
Cover of Too Small Tola featuring an illustration of a young small girl with a colorful orange and green basket on her head with fish and produce in it. The cover's background is bright yellow and the book's title is displayed in a patterned teal and orange.

Too Small Tola

Atinuke

Onyinye Iwu (Illustrator)

Too Small Tola. Atinuke. Illustrated by Onyinye Iwu. Candlewick Press, 2021. Originally published in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries by Walker Books in 2020. ISBN 9781536211276. 96 p. (Ages 7-9). Fiction.

India

Cover for A Saree for Ammi featuring an illustration of a woman and her child where the woman is making a textile using a loom while her daughter looks on. There are colorful patterned textiles in the background and the cover's background is an orangey brown.

A Saree for Ammi

Mamta Nainy

Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator)

A Saree for Ammi. Mamta Nainy. Illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat. Tulika Books, 2019. First published in Chennai, in 2019. A Sari for Ammi, a revised edition of this book published by Amazon Crossing Kids in 2021, is also available. ISBN 9789389203608. 28 p. (Ages 5 and up). Picture book.

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.

Korea

Cover for My GrandMom featuring a pencil or crayon illustration of a grandma, grandchild, and cat all doing the same joyful pose with their hands outstretched and their bodies in a C shape. There are fireworks drawn around and behind them.

My GrandMom

Gee-eun Lee

Sophie Bowman (Translator)

My GrandMom. Gee-eun Lee. Translated by Sophie Bowman. Amazon Crossing Kids, 2022. Originally published as Halmeoni eomma in Korean by Woongjin Thinkbig Co. LTD, in South Korea, in 2016. ISBN 9781662508257. 40 p. (Ages 3-7). Picture book.

Cover for When the Spring Comes to the DMZ featuring an illustration of a series of animal groups such as wild pig and birds in what appears to be a junkyard in the foreground and a child and their older relative walking together in the background.

When Spring Comes to the DMZ

Lee Uk-Bae

Chungyon Won and Aileen Won (Translators)

Lee Uk-Bae (Illustrator)

When Spring Comes to the DMZ. Lee Uk-Bae. Translated by Chungyon Won and Aileen Won. lllustrated by Lee Uk-Bae. Plough Publishing House, 2019. Originally published in Korean. ISBN 978-0874869729. 40p. (Ages 5-8). Picture book.

China & Taiwan

China
Cover of Dragonfly Eyes featuring an illustration of tree branches with red flowers in the foreground and a building inn the background in blue. The title is in large purple letters within a lighter purple cloud.

Dragonfly Eyes

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Dragonfly Eyes. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Candlewick, 2022. Originally published in China by by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2021. ISBN 9781536200188. 384 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

The Middle East & North Africa

Syria
Cover of Wild Poppies featuring a large vibrant orange poppy illustration on a black background with two school age boys, one with a backpack on, illustrated within the poppy's petals on either side facing away from each other.

Wild Poppies

Haya Saleh

Wild Poppies. Haya Saleh. Translated by M. Lynx Qualey. Levine Querido, 2023. Originally published as شقائق النعمان in Arabic by Dar al-Yasmine in Amman. ISBN 9781646142019. 178 p. (Ages 10-14). Fiction.

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