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This website aims to help you find children’s and YA books in translation from around the world, and books in other languages that aren’t yet translated into English but deserve to be!

You can search the website for books by country of origin or by source language (the language translated from).

Here you’ll find resources for broader geographical areas.

Asia Pacific

• World Kid Lit Book List: Children’s Books in Translation from Asia – primary
• Japan SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) (Recommended translations list)
• Japan Foundation’s ‘Worth Sharing’ list
• China IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People)
• Chinese books for young readers: Blog and Twitter account about children’s and YA books created in Chinese. Run by Helen Wang, Anguche and minjiech. Recommended translations from Chinese: Book List (also on Pinterest)
• Indonesia – ‘Islands of Imagination’ – Indonesia’s National Book Committee
• Taiwan – Books from Taiwan

Middle East

• African children’s books and YA ~ World Kid Lit book lists and maps
• Children’s and YA books in translation from Arabic (WKL blog post)
• Arab Kid Lit Now! A fresh view on contemporary Arabic children’s literature, in Arabic and in translation
• Etisalat Award for Arabic children’s literature
• Anna Lindh Foundation: Arab Children’s Literature Regional Programme
• Al-Salwa Books (Arabic)
• EBBY (Egyptian Board on Books for Young People)
• Hadi Badi: an initiative aiming to bridge the awareness gap about good Arabic children and young adult books.
• Kalimat: specialist Arabic children’s publisher, based in United Arab Emirates
• Tiny Owl Publishing: Global Children’s Literature; publisher of many illustrated picture books from Iran in English translation
• Farsi: POL Literary and Translation Agency
• Turkish: Black Cat Agency
• Turkish: Kovan Agency

Americas

• World Kid Lit Book List: Children’s Books in Translation from the Americas – Primary
• Argentina: Sigmar – children’s book publisher
• Brazil: 5 Amazing Brazilian Children’s Authors, by Brynn in Brazil | BrazilianPublishers.com.br –  the foreign rights catalogues of several Brazilian publishers
• Cinco Puntos: publisher based on the U.S./Mexico border, specialist in publishing bilingual Spanish/English children’s books

AFRICA

See World Kid Lit Downloads page for more maps and reading lists

• African children’s books and YA ~ World Kid Lit book lists and maps
• African Books Collective: Children and teens
• Accord Literary: literary agents Sarah Odedina and Deborah Ahenkorah Osei-Agyekum for authors based in Africa writing books for young readers
• Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA)
• CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 
• Golden Baobab Prize
• James Murua’s African Literature Blog
• Muna Kalati, Cameroon
• Our Ancestories: stories on pre-colonial African legends and activities for kids to explore specific African cultures
• Van Aggelen – African Literary Agency

Europe

• World Kid Lit Book List: Children’s Books in Translation from Central and Eastern Europe
• World Kid Lit Book List: Children’s Books in Translation from Scandinavia
• Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania): Publishers’ Weekly report on Children’s Book Publishing in Latvia
• Dutch: Nederlands Letterenfonds (search: children’s)
• Flanders Literature
• Finland: Playing by the Book blog’s feature on Finnish children’s books | Books from Finland blog
• German: New Books in German children’s/YA
• Hungarian: Corvina Arts and Foreign Language Publishing Company
• Norwegian: NORLA children’s recommendations
• Russian Kid Lit blog: reviews and excerpts of Russian-language books for children and teens
• Spanish: New Spanish Books (search: children’s)
• Sweden: Swedish children’s books | Swedish Institute for Children’s books
• Switzerland: Translate Swiss Books (Pro Helvetia)
• Ukraine: Old Lion Publishing House (Stary Lev) ~ TAULT agency for Ukrainian literature in translation