Tag: World War (1939-1945)

Japan

Cover for The Secret of the Blue Glass featuring an illustration of a small boy sitting on a book looking at a large graphic of a blue glass with flourishes indicating it is shining. The background is green.

The Secret of the Blue Glass

Tomiko Inui

Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)

The Secret of the Blue Glass. Tomiko Inui. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Pushkin Children’s Books, 2018. Originally published as 木かげの家の小人たち (Kokage no Ie no Kobitotachi) in Japanese by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc., in Tokyo, in 1967. ISBN 9781782691846. 192 p. (Ages 10-14). Fiction.

Cover for Soul Lanterns featuring an illustration of a woman at night with dark hair in a short bob haircut and bangs in a blue kimono looking at the viewer from over her shoulder while holding a paper lantern in her hands. In the background is a cityscape with stars in the night sky. The book's title is displayed in a glowing purple, pink, yellow, and orange as if illuminated by the paper lantern.

Soul Lanterns

Shaw Kuzki

Emily Balistrieri (Translator)

Soul Lanterns. Shaw Kuzki. Translated by Emily Balistrieri. Delacorte Press, 2021. Originally published as 光のうつしえ 廣島 ヒロシマ 広島 (Hikari no utsushie Hiroshima Hiroshima Hiroshima) in Japanese by Kodansha, Ltd., in Tokyo, in 2013. ISBN 9780593174357. 176 p. (Ages 10-14). Fiction.

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.

The Middle East & North Africa

Israel
Cover of Adam and Thomas featuring a stylistic illustration of a forest with pink flourishes outlining trees and leaves. The title on the cover is presented in a frame lined with sticks and the lettering itself is comprised of those same sticks.

Adam & Thomas

Aharon Appelfeld

Jeffrey M. Green (Translator)

Philippe Dumas (Illustrator)

Adam & Thomas. Aharon Appelfeld. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Illustrated by Philippe Dumas. Seven Stories Press, 2015. Originally published as Yalda Shelo Minhaolam Hazé (A Girl from Another World) in Hebrew by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, in Modi’in, Israel, in 2013. ISBN 9781609806347. 149 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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