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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 for Kiki's Delivery Service featuring an illustration of a young woman in a black dress with a red bow on her hair who is a witch on a broomstick in the sky with a black cat hanging off the end holding on as if it's about to fall and a red purse hanging off the tip of the broomstick's handle. In the background is a view of the landscape from above like you might see from an airplane. The cover's title is displayed in dark red.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Eiko Kadono

Emily Balistrieri (Translator)

Yuta Onoda (Illustrator)

Kiki’s Delivery Service. Eiko Kadono. Translated by Emily Balistrieri. Illustrations by Yuta Onoda. Delacorte Press, 2020. Originally published as 魔女の宅急便 (Majyo no Takkyubin) in Japanese by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc., in Tokyo, in 1985. Kiki’s Delivery Service was originally published in English in 2003; this is a new translation. ISBN 9781984896667. 208 p. (Ages 8-12). Fiction.

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Cover for Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit featuring an illustration of warrior-like figure dressed in white and in motion holding a person who is passed out and dressed in a red and orange print in their arms. In the background is a wooden bridge and below them is an illustration of tumultuous water with foamy waves.

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Nahoko Uehashi

Cathy Hirano (Translator)

Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. Nahoko Uehashi. Translated by Cathy Hirano. Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008. Originally published as 精霊の守り人 (Seirei no moribito) in Japanese by Kaisei-Sha Publishing Co., Ltd., in Tokyo, in 1996. ISBN 9780545005425. 272 p. (Ages 10-14). Fiction.

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Cover of Night on the Milky Way Train featuring a surreal illustration of a train that's twisted into a coil and taking up all available space on the cover. It's green, yellow, beige, with a little blue and dark red.

Night on the Milky Way Train (and nine other stories)

Kenji Miyazawa

Roger Pulvers (Translator)

Night on the Milky Way Train (and nine other stories). Kenji Miyazawa. Translated by Roger Pulvers. Balestier Press, 2020. Originally published as 銀河鉄道の夜, in Japanese. Night on the Milky Way Train was first published in 1934. ISBN 9781911221852. 186 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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Cover for Shuna's Journey featuring an illustration of a young man dressed in green with a head covering riding an elk over a hill towards the viewer. In the background is a colorful sky that is yellow then becomes light blue then light to dark shades of purple as it approaches the horizon. The title is displayed in bright orange and the author's name is prominently displayed in dark blue.

Shuna's Journey

Hayao Miyazaki

Alex Dudok de Wit (Translator)

Hidao Miyazaki (Illustrator)

Shuna’s Journey. Hayao Miyazaki. Translated by Alex Dudok de Wit. Illustrated by Hidao Miyazaki. First Second, 2022. Originally published as シュナの旅 (Shuna no tabi) in Japanese by Tokuma Shoten Co., Ltd., in Tokyo, in 1983. ISBN 9781250846525. 160 p. (Ages 12 and up). Graphic Novel.

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Cover for Temple Alley Summer featuring an illustration of a young girl with a blue dress and pink backpack on running down a city alleyway and looking back at the viewer.

Temple Alley Summer

Sachiko Kashiwaba

Avery Fischer Udagawa (Translator)

Miho Satake (Illustrator)

Temple Alley Summer. Sachiko Kashiwaba. Translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa. Illustrations by Miho Satake. Yonder: Restless Books, 2021. Originally published as 帰命寺横丁の夏 (Kimyōji Yokochō no Natsu) in Japanese by Kodansha, Ltd., in Tokyo, in 2011. ISBN 9781632063038. 240 p. (Ages 8-13). Novel.

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Cover for Yours Sincerely, Giraffe featuring an illustration of a penguin and a giraffe on a bright red background. Only the giraffe's neck and head are visible and he is poking his head into frame with a letter in his mouth to deliver to the penguin.

Yours Sincerely, Giraffe

Megumi Iwasa

Cathy Hirano (Translator)

Jun Takabatake (Illustrator)

Yours Sincerely, Giraffe. Megumi Iwasa. Translated by Cathy Hirano. Illustrated by Jun Takabatake. Gecko Press USA, 2017. Originally published as ぼくはアフリカにすむキリンといいます (Boku wa Africa ni Sumu Kirin to Iimasu) in Japanese by Kaisei-sha Publishing Co., Ltd., in Tokyo, in 2001. ISBN 9781927271889. 104 p. (Ages 7-10). Fiction.

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Africa South of the Sahara

Ghana

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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India

Cover of Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe featuring an illustration of a determined-looking young girl in a dress next to a nerdy looking minotaur with the body of a human and a cat with three eyes and a building in the background. They are among a lush natural landscape with a body of water and bridge across it in the background with clouds in the sky.

Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe

C.G. Salamander

Rajiv Eipe (Illustrator)

Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe. C. G. Salamander. Illustrated by Rajiv Eipe. Puffin Books, 2021. ISBN 9780143455189. 64 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

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Cover for Nimmi's Spectabulous Schooldays featuring an illustration of a girl sitting at a bright yellow school desk surrounded by school-like objects like a book and a paper airplane who has a scared look on her face because there is a spider to her left. The book's title is displayed in white and yellow over top a red banner on top of the cover's background which is teal.

Nimmi's Spectabulous Schooldays

Shabnam Minwalla

Nimmi’s Spectabulous Schooldays. Shabnam Minwalla. Talking Cub, 2018. First published in New Delhi, India. ISBN 9789387693777. 160 p. (Ages 8-12). Fiction.

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Cover for Savi and the Memory Keeper featuring an illustration of the silhouette of a large pale yellow tree with spindly roots over top a green landscape of foliage to the left and a city to the right with a girl hugging it's trunk. The book's title is displayed in black on top of the tree.

Savi and the Memory Keeper

Bijal Vachharajani

Savi and the Memory Keeper. Bijal Vachharajani. Hachette India Children’s Books, 2021. First published in India. Also available in a US edition from Blackstone Publishing, Oregon, 2023. ISBN 9789391028015. 242 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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China & Taiwan

China

Cover of My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder featuring an illustration of what appears to be a mailman on a bike with a young child riding with him. They are biking through an alleyway lined with trees and ornate houses.

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder

Nie Jun

Edward Gauvin (Translator)

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder. Nie Jun. Translated from French and Chinese by Edward Gauvin. Graphic Universe, 2018. First published as Les contes de la ruelle in French, in 2016. ISBN 9781541526426., 128 p. (Ages 7-11). Fiction.

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Cover for White Fox featuring an illustration of a white fox on a snowy night running to a house in the distance with a tree above them and the moon in the sky.

White Fox

Chen Jiatong

Jennifer Feeley (Translator)

Viola Wong (Illustrator)

White Fox. Chen Jiatong. Translated by Jennifer Feeley. Illustrated by Viola Wong. Chicken House, 2019. First published by People’s Literature Publishing House, in China, in 2014. ISBN 9781912626083. 288 p. (Ages 8-12.) Fiction.

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The Middle East & North Africa

Israel

Cover of Adam and Thomas featuring a stylistic illustration of a forest with pink flourishes outlining trees and leaves. The title on the cover is presented in a frame lined with sticks and the lettering itself is comprised of those same sticks.

Adam & Thomas

Aharon Appelfeld

Jeffrey M. Green (Translator)

Philippe Dumas (Illustrator)

Adam & Thomas. Aharon Appelfeld. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Illustrated by Philippe Dumas. Seven Stories Press, 2015. Originally published as Yalda Shelo Minhaolam Hazé (A Girl from Another World) in Hebrew by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, in Modi’in, Israel, in 2013. ISBN 9781609806347. 149 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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Palestine

Cover of Thunderbird: Book One featuring an illustration of an orange and blue phoenix-like bird in front of a tree with brown leaves and stylized flames at the base. The cover has a stylized border made of snowflake-like shapes at the corners and comb-like shapes at the borders.

Thunderbird: Book One

Sonia Nimir

M. Lynx Qualey (Translator)

Thunderbird: Book One. Sonia Nimir. Translated by M. Lynx Qualey. University of Texas Press, 2022. Originally published as طائر الرع in Arabic by Tamer Institute, in Jerusalem, in 2016. ISBN 1477325816. 128 p. (Ages 10-13). Fiction.

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Lebanon

Cover for Ghady and Rawan featuring photos of two distinct city skylines, one with more urban architecture and the other with more decorative architecture, along the top and bottom borders of the cover with the top photo inverted. The middle of the cover is blue mimicking the sky.

Ghady & Rawan

Fatimma Sharafeddine and Samar Mahfouz Barraj

Sawad Hussain and M. Lynx Qualey (Translators)

Ghady & Rawan. Fatima Sharafeddine and Samar Mahfouz Barraj. Translated by Sawad Hussain and M. Lynx Qualey. University of Texas Press, 2019. Originally published as غدي وروان in Arabic by دار الساقي in Beirut, in 2013. ISBN 1477318526. 134 p. (Ages 12-14). Fiction.

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Jordan

Cover for The Little Green Drum featuring an illustration of a young girl wearing a drum on her chest and holding a drumstick to hit it with in one hand and a lantern in the other with a dog by her side on a blue background with stars in the sky.

The Little Green Drum

Taghrīd ʻĀrif Najjār

Lucy Coats (Adapted by)

Hassan Manasrah (Illustrator)

The Little Green Drum (Early Reader). Taghrīd ʻĀrif Najjār. Adapted by Lucy Coats. Illustrated by Hassan Manasrah. Orion Children’s Books, 2015. Originally published as ما المانع in Arabic by Al Salwa Publishers, in Amman, in 2013. ISBN 1444014358. 73 p. (Ages 6-9). Early chapter book.

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Iran

Cover for A Sweet Jam featuring an illustration of a jar of jam with a person's face in the background of the label on thee jar on a background that is pink and patterned like a picnic tablecloth.

A Sweet Jam

Hūshang Murādī Kirmānī

Caroline Croskery (Translator)

A Sweet Jam. Hūshang Murādī Kirmānī. Translated by Caroline Croskery. CreateSpace, 2015. Originally published as مرباى شيرين in Farsi in 1998/1999 by Muʻīn in Tehran. ISBN 1507886241. 158 p. (Ages 9-12). Fiction.

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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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Latin America

Argentina

Cover for Jungle Tales featuring an overlapping illustration of a jungle using green and yellow textured elements with several animals peaking through the elements including a snake, toucan, leopard, flamingo, deer, alligator, and others with a blue river peaking through.

Jungle Tales

Horacio Quiroga

Jeff Zorrilla (Translator)

Bert van Wijk (Illustrator)

Jungle Tales. Horacio Quiroga. Translated by Jeff Zorrilla. Illustrated by Bert van Wijk. Brigham Distributing, 2013, c2012. Originally published as Cuentos de la Selva in Spanish, in Argentina, in 1918. ISBN 9780615708072. 87 p. (Ages 9-11). Fiction.

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Cover for Written and Drawn by Henrietta featuring an illustration of a young girl at a table with a cat looking up at her from behind her while she draws crayon-like cartoonish drawings on a giant piece of paper. The book's title is also stylized like a child's crayon drawing.

Written and Drawn by Henrietta

Ricardo Liniers

Written and Drawn by Henrietta. Ricardo Liniers. Translated by the author. TOON Books, 2015. Also available in Spanish as Escrito y dibujado por Enriqueta. ISBN 9781935179900. 64 p. (Ages 5-7). Early chapter book.

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Brazil

Cover for My Sweet Orange Tree featuring an illustration of a young boy with blonde hair sitting on the ground made of brick or cobble beside a window of a building with a toolbox at his feet looking off to the side. The window is blue and the leaves of a tree cover a corner of it.

My Sweet Orange Tree

José Mauro de Vasconcelos

Alison Entrekin (Translator)

My Sweet Orange Tree. José Mauro de Vasconcelos. Translated by Alison Entrekin. Candlewick, 2019. Originally published as O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima in Portuguese by Editora Melhoramentos, in Brazil, in 1968. ISBN ‎9781536203288. 272 p. (Ages 12 and up). Fiction.

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Venezuela

Cover for Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War featuring an illustration of a young girl in a school unfirom with a bucket at her feet appearing to be cleaning a chalkboard. There is a yellow border along the left side of the cover and the title appears to be written in chalk.

Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War

Mónica Montañés

Lawrence Schimel

Eva Sánchez Gómez (Illustrator)

Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War. Mónica Montañés. Translated by Lawrence Schimel. Illustrated by Eva Sánchez Gómez. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2022. Originally published as Los distintos by Ediciones Ekaré in Barcelona, Spain, in 2020. ISBN 9780802855985. 88 p. (Ages 9-14). Fiction.

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