Read "Being Banned is Not an Award," @philnel.bsky.social's incisive piece for #IBBY #Bookbird 63:3, free through 31 Oct 2025: tinyurl.com/3hy62uye #BannedBooksWeek

Still thinking about what Chimamdani Ngozi Adichie said at this weekend's National Book Festival. #Truth

The Wild Ones by Antonio Ramos Revillas, tr Claire Storey, would not let me go on #InternationalTranslationDay 2025. What a read. #WorldKidLitMonth #YA #xl8

Today is International Translation Day, and we honor the translators responsible for making the rich and wondrous diversity of world literature available to us! #InternationalTranslationDay #💙📚 #Booksky

It's International Translation Day, also known as the feast of St Jerome, patron saint of translators! #internationaltranslationday #xl8 #translatorslife

In honour of International Translation Day, please enjoy these shelves of my translation children!

My fourth #WorldKidLitMonth post for #SCBWI: The Blog. All about how illustrations and illustrators have been part of my #translation journey. Zooms in on Lina's clown-shaped umbrella handle in THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST by Sachiko Kashiwaba, illus #MihoSatake! scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...

My third #WorldKidLitMonth post at #SCBWI: The Blog. About translating a children's novel that has been translated before. (And being influenced despite myself!) scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...

Translators recommend #kidlit translations at @wwborders.bsky.social! #translation #scbwitranslation #worldkidlitmonth #xl8 @bookishruth.bsky.social @jasmine-hongyu.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

We're back from our summer break! And ready to share a host of wonderful readings in translation with you this autumn. We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS and have a new (hopefully easier) submissions process. Simply fill in the Google form: buff.ly/czKIq7K and attach your video file when prompted. 👍

My second #WorldKidLitMonth post at #SCBWI: The Blog. A look at taking translated #kidlit on a book tour! 🙏 @pageonem.bsky.social, @japansociety.org, @kalyanisaxena.bsky.social, @katemilford.bsky.social, @authorgracelin.bsky.social, @vromansbookstore.bsky.social scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...

“Don’t forget to sing about life.” 🕊️ Discover five picture #books that celebrate birds, #song, & the beauty of the natural world this #WorldKidLitMonth. 🌿📖 worldkidlit.org/2025/09/11/d...

Publication day! This was one of the hardest stories I’ve ever translated, both for the language and content. It’s also one of the most important stories I’ve translated. I hope as many people as possible will read it and reflect on the reality of war. #booksky #translation #literarytranslation

"A hot topic this #WorldKidLitMonth is AI... concerns are rising that AI may be perceived as an acceptable alternative to human translators. As one such translator, I say nay! But you don’t have to take my word for it..." @averyudagawa.bsky.social 😊 scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/ai-w... #kidlit #scbwi

First of four #WorldKidLitMonth posts at #SCBWI: The Blog! Shout-out to chief blogger @themermancam.bsky.social and #scbwiSummer25 speakers Claire Storey, @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, Soman Chainani, and @debbieohi.com! scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/ai-w...

"[#NameTheTranslator] grew out of movements in the twenty-teens, the early twenty twenties, and beyond to make translator crediting standard practice." Avery Fischer Udagawa discusses the importance of #NameTheTranslator in the age of AI on the ALSC blog. #kidlit

Love 💕 @averyudagawa.bsky.social #worldkidlitmonth blog today on the @wearealsc.bsky.social blog www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/09...

Proud to be a mentor for ALTA/SALT's 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, for a translator of children's literature working from any South Asian language into English (based anywhere in the world). #xl8 #worldkidlit #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

It's World Kid Lit Month: the annual celebration of international children's literature🎉 We kick things off with children’s librarian, author, and blogger extraordinaire Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social! What will you be reading this month? worldkidlit.org/2025/09/01/k... #WorldKidLitMonth

"Have you tried translating a children’s book into English? Can YOU help bring more of the world into English-language children’s literature?" A rousing call to #translation action from @hatbooks.bsky.social at #SCBWI: The Blog: scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/08/tran...

AI cannot develop a relationship with an editor or have the emotional experience that a #translation must recreate. Pearls of wisdom from @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social's breakout session at #scbwiSummer25! #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8

For the first time, Argentina’s iconic comic strip character Mafalda is available in English. Book 1 is out, published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social. Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda

What an inspiring way to kick off #scbwiSummer25! #SCBWITranslation

Saying cheese at the Translators' Social with Claire Storey at #scbwiSummer25! #SCBWITranslation #xl8 #kidlit #worldkidlit

Translators! Social starts in less than an hour, not too late to sign up. Hosted by @averyudagawa.bsky.social. Offered as part of #scbwisummer25, but you don't need to have registered for the conference. #Translators #Translations 7am PDT / 9am EDT / 3pm BST

Today! #xl8 #translation #scbwi #scbwisummer25

#SCBWI Virtual Summer Conference 2025 is July 31-August 3, with “the entire program, every single class on offer” available to registrants by video replay through September 14. Schedule: www.scbwi.org/events/virtu... #Translation highlights at #scbwiSummer25:

As someone who has rescued a few cats LATE TODAY by Jungyoon Huh & Myungae Lee tr by Aerin Park speaks to me. The story of a kitten on the roadway blocking traffic & in need of rescue the illustrations are fabulous & a happy ending that I needed! Loving @ebyrbooks.bsky.social fall books #worldkidlit

Today we dip a toe into three upcoming picture book translations from Tapioca Stories, as beautiful and different from one another as can be. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/07/23/p...

Wonderful to hear @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social describe finding the #ya book by Ondjake that she would pitch and translate as Our Beautiful Darkness—in the stunning Lisbon bookstore Ler Devagar. Thank you to @usbby.bsky.social and #ILA for spotlighting #worldkidlit and #translation.

In her Summer 2025 State of the Children's Publishing Market talk for @scbwi.bsky.social, @deborahhalverson.bsky.social touches on how cuts to the #NationalEndowmentForTheArts affect #kidlit #translation, with reference to the #NEA grant termination tracker shared by the @authorsguild.bsky.social. 👇

We started a new starter pack of active libraries all across the world! We are collecting them like Pokémon. 🎊 go.bsky.app/LKyMo3u Full list in the link and comments.

With all the AI discussions around publishing I am proud that @wearealsc.bsky.social changed the submission requirements for the Batchelder Award several years ago to #namethetranslator

The @barnesandnoble.com edition of Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, tr @tristiger.bsky.social, is so pretty! 🤩

Happy to see The Village Beyond the Mist at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social in Wichita—not far from Greenglass House by @katemilford.bsky.social, who interviewed #SachikoKashiwaba and me at an event in NYC recently! Really feel these books are literary kin.

Translators, register here to join a social featuring Claire Storey, translator of 2025 GLLI Translated #YA Book Prize winner THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS. Thurs, July 31, 7-8 am PDT/3-4 pm BST! scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Part of #scbwiSummer25. Conference registration not required to join the Zoom.

Discover innovative ways to expose students to diverse cultures, perspectives, and experiences through #translated #kidsbooks Join us July 23 at 6:30 ET for a free webinar with author & translator Lyn Miller-Lachmann, cohosted w/ #ILA us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Temple Alley Summer has come out in an Indonesian edition, and Sachiko Kashiwaba has written a delightful travelogue about visiting Jakarta and Makassar to share the book with readers. I enjoyed translating her reflections for the Japan Foundation: www.bookmark.jpf.go.jp/e/books_auth...

So glad you accessed Nanako Vera Mizushima’s pitch-perfect performance of The House of the Lost on the Cape! I think @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social describes it very well. #summerreading #audiobooks

Thank you to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for your embrace of The Village Beyond the Mist! #SachikoKashiwaba and I were thrilled by the warm crowd and the attentive, engaged staff. We even spotted homage to #MihoSatake ‘s umbrella illustrations on a sign made to advertise the event in-store!

Come see us! We’ve practiced our signatures! 1 p.m. today (Sunday) at #1339. #alaac25 #spiritedaway

It was a privilege to introduce The Village Beyond the Mist at #NYC's @japansociety.org, with Peter Tatara moderating and Mari Morimoto interpreting. The signing line included a that-day graduate, fans who had read the book growing up in #Japan, and former #Kansas dwellers. Worlds converged!

When translating #kidlit helps you meet @katemilford.bsky.social and ask her to sign the stack of library books by her that you have been reading! 🥰 So appreciated Kate’s leadership of a conversation with Sachiko Kashiwaba about The Village Beyond the Mist, at the Chatham Square Library in #NYC!

What a pleasure to discuss The Village Beyond the Mist with Sachiko Kashiwaba and Kalyani Saxena at @thecoolidge.bsky.social, thanks to @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social!

Savored a pre-event visit with Japan- and Massachusetts-based author Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social. My journey toward translating Sachiko Kashiwaba’s The Village Beyond the Mist began with translating a story by Kashiwaba-san for the #YA anthology TOMO, edited by Holly. www.hatbooks.com

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Stopped by the #Wichita Public Library short-story dispenser at #ICT airport today. Enjoying some #kidlit by @kristy-nuttall.bsky.social as I head out to meet #SachikoKashiwaba for book tour. Stories are so needed right now—of generous cake-baking dinosaurs, brave mountain-climbing sixth graders…

The Moomins are the mascot of World Refugee Week! And we’re celebrating their 80th anniversary today on our website, discussing the cultural phenomenon #Moomins #refugee #kidlit worldkidlit.org/2025/06/16/w...

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

Great thread on doing research! And research is a huge part of translation, so learning to do it well is key.