Tag: Stories in Rhyme

Japan

Cover of Every Color of Light: A Book About the Sky featuring a dark blue illustration of a starry night above a forest with yellow and green text.

Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky

Hiroshi Osada

David Boyd (Translator)

Ryōji Arai (Illustrator)

Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky. Hiroshi Osada. Translated by David Boyd. Illustrated by Ryōji Arai. Enchanted Lion Books, 2020. Originally published as きょうはそらにまるいつき (Kyō wa sora ni marui tsuki) in Japanese by Kodansha Ltd., in Tokyo, in 2011. ISBN 9781592702916. 38 p. (Ages 4-10). Picture book.

Africa South of the Sahara

Ghana
Cover for A is for Accra featuring an illustration of two children hugging a country. In the background is foliage and buildings and in the foreground is water and a black star with red, yellow, and green flourishes emitting from it. Behind these elements is a background of orange and a greyish sage green as well as a jagged light blue border around the entirety of the cover. The title is displayed in bright yellow.

A is for Accra

Ekow Pierre

Nana Pierre (Translator)

A is for Accra. Ekow Pierre. Illustrated by Nana Pierre. Spiderwize and Book Printing UK, 2017. ISBN 9781911596257. 40 p. (Ages 3-5). Picture book.

India

Cover for Gobble You Up! featuring an illustration of a black silhouette of a dog-like animal with animals illustrated in white inside of him including mostly fish and most prominently an elephant in the center. There is one white bird illustrated in front of the animal and the cover's background is bright yellow creating a striking effect. The text on the cover is in mostly black with only the illustrator's name in white and there is a black patterned graphic border along the bottom edge of the cover.

Gobble You Up!

Gita Wolf

Sunita (Illustrator)

Gobble You Up!. Gita Wolf. Illustrated by Sunita. Tara Books, 2013. Originally published in Chennai, in 2013. ISBN 9788193984154. 40 p. (Ages 3-6). Picture book.

Cover for A Tangle of Brungles featuring an illustration of a witch-like woman with grey hair reading a book behind a cauldron on top of a fireplace while she is surrounded by animals from crows to snakes to wolves along the perimeter of the cover seemingly without her noticing. The background of the cover is a muted yellow and the colors in general have a slimy greenish hue.

A Tangle of Brungles

Shobha Viswanath

Culpeo S. Fox (Illustrator)

A Tangle of Brungles. Shobha Viswanath. Illustrated by Culpeo S. Fox. Karadi Tales Picturebooks, 2018. First published in Chennai, in 2018. ISBN 9788181903600. 40 p. (Ages 7-9). Picture book.

Cover for Tiger On a Tree featuring an illustration of the silhouette of a tiger in white and orange running away from the viewer on a hill into a grove of three trees. The hill and trees are illustrated in black ink. The cover's background is orange and the title is displayed in white.

Tiger on a Tree

Anushka Ravishankar

Pulak Biswas (Illustrator)

Tiger on a Tree. Anushka Ravishankar. Illustrated by Pulak Biswas. Tara Books, 2014. Originally published by Tara Books, in Chennai, India, in 1997; first US edition by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, in 2004. ISBN 9789383145065. 40 p. (Ages 5 and up). Picture book.

The Middle East & North Africa

Israel
Cover for Room for Rent featuring an illustration of a castle with purple, beige, blue, red, and green, elements with animals including a squirrel, cat, bird, and chicken poking their heads out of its windows. The title of the book is on a sign hanging from the castle as if the title is advertising room for rent in the castle. It's on a white background with blue clouds in the sky.

Room for Rent

Leah Goldberg

Jessica Setbon (Translator)

Shmuel Katz (Illustrator)

Room for Rent. Leah Goldberg. Translated by Jessica Setbon. Illustrated by Shmuel Katz. Gefen Publishing House, 2018. Originally published as Dira Lehaskir in Hebrew by Sefarim Poalim in Tel Aviv, in 1983. ISBN 9789652299208. 24 p. (Ages 3-8). Picture book.

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