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Category: Folktales

March 7, 2022March 6, 2022 Claire Storey

Siganas – African Luo Stories in Slovakia

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Kids Read … Somalia

November 8, 2021December 9, 2021 Nanette McGuinness

Graphic novels: the 2021 Eisner Nominations

September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Reading in translation: the Soviet picture book in an era beyond its time

July 27, 2021July 30, 2021 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

English PEN funding for Siân Valvis’s adaptation of Russian folktale, Kolobok

March 20, 2021May 4, 2021 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Nowruz around the world: Picture books celebrating the new year and coming of spring

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Johanna McCalmont

#ReadingAfrica Week 6-12 December 2020

December 2, 2020 Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

Equality, diversity and censorship in Hungary: Wonderland Belongs to Everyone

November 11, 2020November 12, 2020 Johanna McCalmont

Translate This! KidLit from Cape Verde

November 7, 2019November 5, 2019 mlynxqualey

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