Tag: Imagination

Japan

Cover of Sato the Rabbit featuring a child in a rabbit costume surrounded by clouds and a pinkish-orange hue and playing with a small cloud.

Sato the Rabbit

Yuki Ainoya

Michael Blaskowsky (Translator)

Sato the Rabbit. Yuki Ainoya. Translated by Michael Blaskowsky. Enchanted Lion Books, 2021. Originally published as うさぎのさとうくん (Usagi no Sato-kun) in Japanese by Shogakukan, in 2006. ISBN 9781592703180. 64 p. (Ages 4-7). Picture book.

Cover of Chirri & Chirra featuring an illustration of two children biking through foliage and flowers.

Chirri & Chirra

Kaya Doi

Yuki Kaneko (Translator)

Chirri & Chirra. Kaya Doi. Translated by Yuki Kaneko. Enchanted Lion Books, 2016. Originally published as チリとチリリ (Chiri to Chiriri) in Japanese in 2003. ISBN 9781592701995. 40 p. (Ages 3-8). Picture book.

Cover of Over the Ocean featuring an illustration of a child with long hair looking out over the ocean with clouds in the background.

Over the Ocean

Taro Gomi

Taylor Norman (Translator)

Over the Ocean. Taro Gomi. Translated by Taylor Norman. Chronicle Books LLC, 2016. Originally published as うみのむこうは (Umi no Mukô wa) in Japanese by Ehonkan Inc., in Tokyo, in 1979. ISBN 9781452145150. 36 p. (Ages 3-6). Picture book.

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.

Korea

Cover for I am the Subway featuring an illustration of the inside of a subway car with people sitting along the sides and a few people holding hand holds an standing. The middle pathway of the car is green and the rest is a yellow beige. The title is displayed in dusty royal blue and the left side of the book has a similarly blue border.

I Am the Subway

Kim Hyo-eun

Deborah Smith (Translator)

I Am the Subway. Kim Hyo-eun. Translated by Deborah Smith. Scribble US, 2021. Originally published in Korean. ISBN 9781950354658. 52 p. (Ages 3-10). Picture book.

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.

Iran
Cover for In the Meadow of Fantasies featuring an illustration of a valley with a giant horse standing in a lake with a sailing boat sitting on their back and their snout in the water their eyes widened looking at at a fish looking back at them in the water. The mountains surrounding the lake and creating the valley have green grassy plants, brambly trees, and a sandy texture. The cover has a grey background with a red title and the horse has yellow, red, brown, and dark green spots.

In the Meadow of Fantasies

Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi

Sara Khalili (Translator)

Nooshin Safakhoo (Illustrator)

In the Meadow of Fantasies. Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi. Translated by Sara Khalili. Illustrated by Nooshin Safakhoo. Elsewhere Editions, 2021. Originally published as Haft Asb Haft Rang in Farsi by the Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature, Tehran, in 2017. ISBN 9781939810908. 42 p. (Ages 3-7). Picture book.

Latin America

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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