On this page you’ll find all of our downloadable PDF resources, which are also linked to from other places around the website.
Illustrated book lists
Here are various printable book lists to help you source books for your school, your bookshop/library, or for your own reading exploration of the world.
Please let us know if there is a reading list you would find useful!
Read the World | Translated Books for 8-12 year olds * downloadable list covering middle grade fiction from Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe
Africa | Picture books and junior fiction
Africa | Fiction and nonfiction for teens and young adults
Book review templates
If any children or teens would like help with writing a book review, there are some tips and templates below. If you’d like us to publish any reviews by younger readers (anonymised to protect identity), please email worldkidlit@gmail.com
Primary / elementary school
Secondary / high school / ages 10+
World Kid Lit Research
This list is also available to view as a blog post here. It covers translations for children and young adults, including picture books, middle grade/junior fiction, young adult fiction, graphic novels and poetry. At the latest update in July 2021, the 2021 list comprised 220 titles, of which 140 were books first published in Europe, 30 were books from the Americas, 30 from Asia, and just 10 books translated from Africa and the Middle East. We hope there are more that we don’t yet know about – please help us to fill in the gaps in our research! See the blog post for more stats.
