Tag: Friendship

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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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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 I am You: A Book about Ubuntu featuring an illustration of four kids who are all of different ethnicities on a tandem bicycle that seats three with a dog in the front basket and the last kid in the back basket. They're riding through a colorful natural landscape of rolling hills where each hill is a different color and orange flowers are in the foreground. The ground is orange and the sky is light pink with blue birds in it. The title is displayed in orange and pink.

I Am You: A Book About Ubuntu

Refiloe Moahloli

Zinelda McDonald (Illustrator)

I Am You: A Book About Ubuntu. Refiloe Moahloli. Illustrated by Zinelda McDonald. Amazon Crossing Kids, 2022. Originally published as We Are One by Pan Macmillan, in South Africa, in 2020. ISBN 9781542035668. 32 p. (Ages 5-7). Picture book.

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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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India

Cover of the Mountains of Mumbai featuring an extra wide illustration of a colorful cityscape and highway along the water with two children in the foreground over top it in a red dress and blue top and shorts respectively. The book's title is displayed in black, white, and red over the water to the left with a banner in yellow and red reading "Karadi Tales" on top of it.

The Mountains of Mumbai

Labanya Ghosh

Pallavi Jain (Illustrator)

The Mountains of Mumbai. Labanya Ghosh. Illustrated by Pallavi Jain. Karadi Tales Picturebooks, 2020. First published in Chennai, in 2019. ISBN 9788193654293. 40 p. (Ages 4-6). Picture book.

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Cover of Mukand and Riaz featuring a collage-like illustration of two boys, one taller and one shorter, with the taller one on the left handing a black object to the boy on the right who is holding a red hat in his hand. The cover's background is blue and textured with a pattern of blue foliage and the title is displayed in a decorative white font.

Mukand and Riaz

Nina Sabnani

Mukand and Riaz. Nina Sabnani. Tulika Books, 2007.Co-published with National Institute of Design, New Delhi. ISBN 9788181463432. 32 p. (Ages 5 and up). Picture book.

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Cover for Thukpa for All featuring an illustration with a decorative grid dividing the cover into squares. Within each square is a person from the elderly to young in a robe-like outfit with floral flourishes. In the center is a bowl of food, the Thukpa, with the title in green above it. Around the cover is a red floral border except for along the top which has a patterened border that looks like a thatched roof in green, purple, and red. The background is orange.

Thukpa For All

Praba Ram and Sheela Preuitt

Shilpa Ranade (Illustrator)

Thukpa For All. Praba Ram and Sheela Preuitt. Illustrated by Shilpa Ranade. Karadi Tales Picturebooks, 2019. First published in Chennai, in 2018. ISBN 9788193388983. 48 p. (Ages 7-9). Picture book.

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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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Korea

Cover for Pool featuring a pencil illustration of the face of a young girl with goggles and a swim cap on and fish are emerging from her goggles as if swimming through and from them. The background is a textured bluish white.

Pool

Lee JiHyeon

Pool. Lee JiHyeon. Chronicle Books, 2015. Originally published in Korean by Iyagikot Publishing Co, in South Korea, in 2013. ISBN 9781452142944. 56p. (Ages 3-5). Picture book.

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China & Taiwan

China

Cover of Bronze and Sunflower featuring an illustration of two kids, a boy and a girl, riding on the back of a water buffalo who is wading through a rice paddy. In the background is a rural landscape, houses, mountains, and birds.

Bronze and Sunflower

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Meilo So (Illustrator)

Bronze and Sunflower. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Illustrated by Meilo So. Candlewick, 2017. Originally published by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing in China, and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2015. ISBN 9780763688165. 400 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

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The Middle East & North Africa

Turkey

Cover for The Red Apple featuring a rabbit with his arms crossed and appearing cold walking through a dreary beige snowy landscape with footsteps trailing him in the snow. The bright red title with white accents contrasts with the beige background.

The Red Apple

Feridun Oral

The Red Apple. Feridun Oral. minedition, 2015. Originally published as Kirmizi elma in Turkish by YKY, in Istanbul, in 2008. ISBN 9888240005. 28 p. (Ages 3-5). Picture book.

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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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Latin America

Mexico

Cover for Ways to Make Friends featuring an illustration of a group of friendly looking animals that seem to be having a meeting in a forest setting. Their holding up signs which have the title and authors written on them. The colors on the cover are pastel and the background is light green.

Ways to Make Friends

Jairo Buitrago

Elisa Amado (Translator)

Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Illustrator)

Ways to Make Friends. Jairo Buitrago. Translated by Elisa Amado. Illustrated by Mariana Ruiz Johnson. Greystone Kids, 2022. Originally published as Formas de hacer amigos in Spanish by Leetra Final, in Mexico City, in 2021. ISBN 9781771649759. 40 p. (Ages 4-7). Picture 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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