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Japan

The World's Poorest President Speaks Out

Yoshimi Kusaba (Editor)

Andrew Wong (Translator)

Gaku Nakagawa (Illustrator)

The World’s Poorest President Speaks Out. Edited by Yoshimi Kusaba. Translated by Andrew Wong. Illustrated by Gaku Nakagawa. Enchanted Lions Books, 2020. Originally published as 世界でいちばん貧しい大統領のスピーチ (Sekai De Ichiban Mazushi Daitoryo No Speech) in Japanese by Choubunsha Publishing, Co. Ltd., in Tokyo, in 2014. ISBN 9781592702893. 40 p. (Ages 5-10). Picture book.

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Cover for Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window featuring an illustration of a young girl sitting in a formal outfit with a white coat, white socks, black mary jane shoes, a white head covering, and a black brimmed hat with a multi-colored ribbon around it on. The entirety of the cover is simple and white and the text is displayed in black and pink in a serif font. There is a vintage style flourish at the top of the cover that is a pink line with a bouquet of roses at the center.

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Dorothy Britton (Translator)

Chihiro Iwasaki (Illustrator)

Totto-chan: the Little Girl at the Window. Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. Translated by Dorothy Britton. Illustrated by Chihiro Iwasaki. Paperback edition published by Kodansha, 2012. Originally published as 窓ぎわのトットちゃん (Madogiwa no Totto-chan) in Japanese, in 1981. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window was first published in English in 1982. ISBN 9781568363912. 232 p. (Ages 8 and up). Nonfiction.

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Africa South of the Sahara

Nigeria
Cover for Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country featuring an illustrated collage with a large black silhouette of the African continent in the center on a light blue background surrounded by a large number of illustrated items and scenes from a whale to fashion models walking a catwalk to cars and animals. The title is displayed inside the country's silhouette in bright yellow and the subtitle is displayed in rainbow with each letter featuring a different color.

Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country

Atinuke

Mouni Feddag (Illustratror)

Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country. Atinuke. Illustrated by Mouni Feddag. Candlewick Press, 2021. Originally published by its UK sister company Walker Books in 2019. ISBN 9781536205374. 80 p. (Ages 7-10). Nonfiction.

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India

Cover of Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability featuring an close up abstract illustration of three people with glasses on and one pointing their finger and their forearm and hand spanning the foreground of the cover. There is a thick dark blue border along the top of the cover that is the same color of the clothing on the arm in the foreground where the title is displayed in white and other text is displayed in orange. Information is also displayed in white on the sleeve of the arm in the foreground.

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand

Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam (Illustrators)

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability. Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand. Illustrated by Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam. Navayana, 2011. First published by Navayana Publishing, in India, in 2011. Also available under the title Ambedkar: incidents in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar from Tate Publishing, London, in 2013. ISBN 9788189059170. 108 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

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Cover for The Girl Who Loved to Sing Teejan Bai featuring an illustration of the silhouette of a girl singing up to the sky with her arm outstretched and an instrument in her hand. In the background are the black silhouette of houses and two trees. The cover's background is red with a thick orange flourish down the center.

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai

Lavanya Karthik

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai. Lavanya Karthik. Duckbill Books, 2021. ISBN 978014351518. 48 p. (Ages 7-9). Nonfiction.

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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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Cover for Nava Durga: The Nine Forms of the Goddess featuring an illustration of nine goddesses surrounding a curvy orange graphic at the center with the multi-armed goddess Durga surrounded by bushed in the foreground. The title and book information is displayed within the orange graphic in mostly blue and some red. The background is blue with green foliage over top.

Nava Durga: The Nine Forms of the Goddess

Nalini Ramachandran

Priyanka Pachpande (Illustrator)

Nava Durga: The Nine Forms of the Goddess. Nalini Ramachandran. Illustrated by Priyanka Pachpande. Puffin Books, 2021. First published by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Gurgram, Haryana, India, in 2020. ISBN 97801434449485. 96 p. Ages (6-9). Nonfiction.

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Cover for Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection featuring a dramatic pencil illustration of a solitary older woman with a head covering holding a protest sign on a white background with wind-like flourishes around her. The book's title is displayed in red and black.

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection

Ita Mehrotra

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection. Ita Mehrotra. Yoda Press, 2021. First published in India. ISBN 9789382579786. 127 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

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Korea

Cover for The Moon Tonight featuring a hazy yellow beige illustration of an older person and a child biking along the banks of a river in a city atmosphere with a large waxing crescent moon above the skyline.

The Moon Tonight: Our Moon's Journey Around the Earth

Jung Chang-hoon

Paige Morris (Translator)

Jang Ho (Illustrator)

The Moon Tonight: Our Moon’s Journey Around the Earth. Jung Chang-hoon. Translated by Paige Morris. Illustrated by Jang Ho. Blue Dot Kids, 2023. Originally published in Korean by Woongjin Thinkbig Co. Ltd, Seoul, in 2007. ISBN 9781737603252. 36 p. (Ages 4-9). Picture book.

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Cover for The Three Water Drop Brothers featuring a collage of shapes illustrating a brontosaurus dinosaur among palm trees, fronds, and a volcano with clouds in the sky and three blue water droplets with faces on them falling from them. The background is red.

The Three Water Drop Brothers

Lee Eun-hee

Asuka Minamoto (Translator)

Yun Mi-sook (Illustrator)

The Three Water Drop Brothers. Lee Eun-hee. Translated by Asuka Minamoto. Illustrated by Yun Mi-sook. Enchanted Lion Books, 2021. Originally published in Korean. ISBN 9781592703234. 40p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

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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.

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China & Taiwan

China
Cover for Mao and Me featuring an illustration of a child in a chair with a schoolbag hanging on it reading Mao's Little Red Book with a portrait of Mao in the background. The background color is red and the text is gold.

Mao and Me

Chen Jiang Hong

Claudia Zoe Bedrick (Translator)

Mao and Me. Chen Jiang Hong. Translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick. Enchanted Lion Books, 2008. Originally published as Mao et moi in French by l’École des loisirs, in Paris, in 2008. ISBN 9781592700790. 96 p. (Ages 6-10). Picture book.

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Cover for Rice featuring a close up of the green plants that grow out of rice fields with dew on the leaves and the title 'Rice' in large print made up of rice kernels. There are dragonflies flying among the plants.

Rice

Hongcheng Yu

Rice. Hongcheng Yu. Reycraft Books, 2020. ISBN 9781478869368. (Ages 8-12). Nonfiction.

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The Middle East & North Africa

Lebanon
Cover for Stories from the Life of Prophet Muhammad featuring a more child-like hand drawn illustration of animals, characters, and settings including elephants, camels, people, and buildings emerging from behind a stylized column with what looks like palm tree fronds at the top. A sun illustration sits at the top of the cover halfway off the page and the background for the whole cover is bright red.

Stories from the Life of Prophet Muhammad

Nahiba Mheidly

Maha Alhusseini (Translator)

Louijaina al Aseel (Illustrator)

Stories from the Life of Prophet Muhammad. Nahiba Mheidly. Translated by Maha Alhusseini. Illustrated by Loujaina Al Aseel. Dar Alhadaek, 2021. ISBN 6144392661. 72 p. (Ages 7-12). Nonfiction.

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