Tag: Poetry

Japan

Cover of My First Book of Haiku Poems featuring an illustration of a comically large blue cat with a child in pajamas riding its back on a dark grey background.

My First Book of Haiku Poems: A Picture, a Poem, and a Dream

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Translator)

Tracy Gallup (Illustrator)

My First Book of Haiku Poems: A Picture, a Poem, and a Dream; Classic Poems by Japanese Haiku Masters. Translated by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen. Illustrated by Tracy Gallup. Tuttle Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9784805315156. 48 p. (Ages 5-9). Picture book.

India

Cover for Girls Want Azadi featuring an illustration of six kids who are all singing or smiling with one holding a tambourine and one with their eyes close and arm outstretched. Three of the kids are holding a colorful quilted yellow blanket with the author and translator information in the center. The cover's background is light teal and there is a darker blue border along the left side of the book.

Girls Want Azadi

Kamla Bhasin

Shrujana Shridhar (Illustrator)

Girls Want Azadi. Kamla Bhasin. Translated by the author. Illustrated by Shrujana Shridhar. Pratham Books, 2021. Alternative title: Girls Also Want Azadi. Originally published in Hindi, in India. ISBN 9789390968756. 22 p. (Ages 9 and up). Poetry.

The Middle East & North Africa

Palestine
Cover for The Blue Pool of Questions featuring an illustration of a man's head with blue hair that appears to be giant poking up out of a body of water surrounded by some yellowy red leaves or flowers and buildings also poking up out of the water with people sitting on top of them seemingly to escape the flooding water. The background is a dark red and orange cloudy sky.

The Blue Pool of Questions

Māyā Abū al-Ḥayyāt

Hanan Awad (Translator)

Hassan Manasrah (Illustrator)

The Blue Pool of Questions. Māyā Abū al-Ḥayyāt. Translated by Hanan Awad. Illustrated by Hassan Manasrah. Penny Candy Books, 2017. Originally published in Arabic by Birzeit: Palestine Writing Workshop, in Palestine, in 2016. ISBN 9780997221985. 32 p. (Ages 4 and up). Picture book.

Latin America

Chile
Cover for Book of Questions featuring an illustration of a large spiral seashell with water, ships, and animals including rabbits and fish flowing out of it. It appears to be floating in space and there are decorative red lines radiating out of the center of the cover. The book's title and authors are displayed in green and alternate between being filled our just outlined.

Book of Questions

Pablo Neruda

Sara Lissa Paulson (Translator)

Paloma Valdivia (Illustrator)

Book of Questions: Selections/Libro de las preguntas: Selecciones. Pablo Neruda. Translated by Sara Lissa Paulson. Illustrated by Paloma Valdivia. Enchanted Lion Books, 2022. Originally published as Libro de las preguntas in Spanish by Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, in 1974. ISBN 9781592703227. 80 p. (Ages 6 and up). Poetry.

El Salvador
Cover for Guacamole featuring an illustration of an avocado with a window with a bird perched on it in the avocado with three children looking out of it. There are limes and a bowl with a red floral pattern filled with cilantro next to the avocado on a table with a red picnic tablecloth on it. The illustration os surrounded by a circled frame with two pieces of tape appearing to adjoin it to the cover which is a gradient of teal hues. There is a dark green line bordering the entire cover outside of those elements.

Guacamole: A Cooking Poem

Jorge Argueta

Elisa Amado

Margarita Sada (Illustrator)

Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar /A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems). Jorge Argueta. Translated from the Spanish by Elisa Amado. Illustrated by Margarita Sada. Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press, 2016, c2012. ISBN 9781554988884. 32 p. (Ages 5-8). Poetry.

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