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NEW POST: 170. “Perfect Picture Books” from Cardinal Media - chinesebooksforyoungreaders.…

170. “Perfect Picture Books” from Cardinal Media

In 2023 and 2024, Cardinal Media published three series of “Perfect Picture Books”. They encourage us to “Read and enjoy Chinese stories in English! Beautifully written and loving…

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NEW POST: The 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards - nominations from China and Taiwan (past and present) chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… #worldkidlit

169. The 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – nominations from China and Taiwan (past and present)

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is a global award, given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature. Created by the S…

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NEW POST: Interview with Jennifer Bond (@ucl) on the complex identities of Chinese girls who attended Western Christian missionary schools in Republican China chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… Thank you, Jenny!

168. Interview with Jenny Bond – on the complex identities of Chinese girls who attended western...

Jenny Bond is a Lecturer at University College London. She recently gave a fascinating paper titled ‘Pedagogical Experiments: Christian Kindergarten Education in Republican China (1912-49)…

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The (incomplete) Lit in Colour book list - 100 texts by writers of colour - pre-school to KS2 edition - Vol. 4 wp.penguin.co.uk/wp-content/… HT @HertsEnglish
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Teresa Cremin CBE@TeresaCremin10 Oct 2024
100 books by authors of colour wp.penguin.co.uk/wp-content/… Well worth a visit @mattheweduk @benniekara @rachelayres1979 @Team_English1 @BarbaraBleiman Worth sharing too!
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Dr Sabine Little@sabinelittle11 Oct 2024
This is the most wonderful competition - please consider sharing it, and if you are a teacher, encouraging children in your class to take part!
Stephen Spender Trust@StephenSpender11 Oct 2024
Calling all budding poets! Just 2 weeks left to submit to @RIL_YorksHumb’s Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition for #LeedsLanguageWeek Aged 8-18? Submit by 25 Oct: artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our… @ismla_uk #mfltwitterati #EAL
Mother Tongue: Other Tongue Poetry Competition. Learning a new language or speak another language at home? Enter an original poem for a chance to be featured in a digital anthology. Deadline 25th October.

ALT Mother Tongue: Other Tongue Poetry Competition. Learning a new language or speak another language at home? Enter an original poem for a chance to be featured in a digital anthology. Deadline 25th October.

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NEW POST - here are the 10 Chinese titles selected as White Ravens by the International Youth Library in 2024! chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… @IJBib

167. The 2024 White Ravens are here! – with ten Chinese-language titles

Every year, in November, just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Youth Library, Munich, presents the annual White Ravens catalogue. This is a selection by the children’s litera…

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Ella Dorn 唐棠@elladorn_1 Oct 2024
Also - students in China are still supposed to read 'whole books.' Below is a 'literary' selection recommended to 12-15 y/o students by the Ministry of Education for independent reading moe.gov.cn/jyb_xwfb/gzdt_gzd…
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NEW POST - actually it’s a list of all 30 (yes, thirty!) posts about #TaiwanKidLit by Eleanor Duggan on the Global Literature in Libraries blog during #WorldKidLitMonth - wow! chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… Thank you, Eleanor and @GlobalLitin
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Dr Sabine Little@sabinelittle27 Sep 2024
Fantastic paper - congratulations Yue!
Yue Zhou@yuezhou21426 Sep 2024
Very happy to share our new paper exploring how multilingual children perceive their well-being in their heritage language learning journey. It’s open access – check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.system.202… #HeritageLanguage #Wellbeing #Multilingualism
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Dr Sabine Little@sabinelittle30 Sep 2024
The second "Multilingual Libraries in Schools" newsletter went out last week on the European Day of Languages - anybody signing up gets all previous editions, with tips about how to start a multilingual library in school (or another context) :) forms.gle/nngAQuW6MenU2rZ76
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Mama is a Cloud - A Journey through Life's Emotions, by Higo Wu, illustrated by Bei-Lynn ☁️☁️☁️ glli-us.org/2024/09/27/taiwa… #UntranslatedGems #TaiwanKidLit 🧵
Mama is a Cloud - A Journey through Life's Emotions, by Higo Wu, illustrated by Bei-Lynn ☁️☁️☁️

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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Meet Joyce Sun - the Magical Illustrator from #Taiwan glli-us.org/2024/09/28/taiwa… #TaiwanKidLit #PictureBooks #Illustration 🧵
Taiwanese picture book illustrator Joyce Sun holds open one of her books

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I was gutted when she was down and cheered at every high. Every turn of the page had my heart racing. Fast-paced, action-packed but plenty of heart. What an amazing read. #youngadult #diversereads #representationmatters #ESEAHeritageMonth justinelaismith.wordpress.co…

Review: Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Young-adult book review of Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan. On the quiet moon, an illegal girl feels powerless about changing her status in the Celestial Kingdom but her honesty and wa…

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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Whimsy and Wisdom: Exploring the Enchanting World of Liu Hsu Kung's #PictureBooks glli-us.org/2024/09/22/taiwa… #Taiwan #TaiwanKidLit #WorldKidLit 🧵
Look at you! Look at the Mess You've Made! book cover

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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: A Taste of Taiwan through Taiwanese Young Adult Fantasy glli-us.org/2024/09/24/taiwa… #Taiwan #YALit #IntlYALit #UntranslatedGems 🧵
Fantasy series in Taiwanese children's literature

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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Exploring the Creative Journey of Liu Hsu-Kung glli-us.org/2024/09/21/taiwa… #PictureBooks #Taiwan #Creativity #WorldKidLit #WorldKidLitMonth🧵
Author Liu Hsu-Kung and guest curator Eleanor Duggan. One of his picture book covers.

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** NEW POST ** The 2024-2025 Chinese Panda Book Awards Shortlists are out! Over 30 shortlisted titles, arranged in 4 age-groups, with short summaries. chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… #WorldKidLitMonth

165. The Chinese Panda Book Awards 2024-2025 — shortlisted titles

This is the 10th year of the Panda Book Awards! For information, previous winners and shortlists, see our earlier posts (nos 160 and 161). The Chinese Panda Book Shortlists for 2024-2025 have just …

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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Discover Taiwan Through These Picture Books glli-us.org/2024/09/19/taiwa… #TaiwanKidLit #WorldKidLitMonth #PictureBooks🧵
I Love Boba! book cover

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