Tag: Poverty

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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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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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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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Cover of Dragonfly Eyes featuring an illustration of tree branches with red flowers in the foreground and a building inn the background in blue. The title is in large purple letters within a lighter purple cloud.

Dragonfly Eyes

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Dragonfly Eyes. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Candlewick, 2022. Originally published in China by by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2021. ISBN 9781536200188. 384 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

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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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