Submissions open in ten days for the #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect Grant. This grant assists children’s book translators in the development of a specific #translation project into English, which is not currently under contract. Up to two winners are selected annually: www.scbwi.org/pitch-perfec...

Thanks so much to William Yamaguchi Dobson for including The Village Beyond the Mist in this list for BookTrust!

The Village Beyond the Mist won the Foreword INDIE for juvenile fiction! 🙏 Not as a #translation, but as juvenile fiction, period! So grateful! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

📚 Ready for download and free! Bank Street Children's Book Committee's 2026 Best Children's Books of the Year list. Featuring 600+ outstanding titles for ages 0-14+! educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/36/ #bankstreet #kidlit #BankStreetCBC @bankstreet.edu

Karin Redclift, the translator coordinator of the SCBWI San Francisco South chapter @scbwisf.bsky.social, reflects on #SCBWI: The Blog about organizing a regional conference. Collaborating and facilitating are such key (and fun!) parts of #translation and #kidlit! scbwi.blogspot.com/2026/06/scbw...

The Village Beyond the Mist has been named a finalist for the 2026 Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award in Children’s Literature. Winner to be announced at #Mythcon54 in July! This event will be online as well as in-person in #Oklahoma, at the Stafford Air & Space Museum: www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/myth...

SCBWI has added a Translation category to the Golden Kite Awards, widening translator members’ access to this purse and form of recognition. #Translation #KidLit #WorldKidLit #BookIndustryNews @scbwi.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

We will miss Juliet Winters Carpenter in the #SCBWI Japan Translation Group. #kidlit #YA #xl8 ihatov.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/r...

Very sad to hear of the passing of prolific translator Juliet Winters Carpenter. Over a career spanning more than fifty years, she translated dozens of books, from the novels of Kobo Abe, Miyuki Miyabe, Minae Mizumura, and Shiba Ryotaro to haiku, memoir, and buddhist philosophy. #japaneseliterature

I only ever talked to Juliet Winters Carpenter at IJET through the years, but she was always kind and ready to help us less experienced translators. I am sorry I never got to tell her how much I appreciated it. May she rest easy.

Here are four great translations I particularly enjoyed by Juliet Winters Carpenter. The Setting Sun (Dazai Osamu) The Great Passage (Miura Shion) A Woman of Pleasure (Murata Kiyoko) A True Novel (Mizumura Minae)

Wonderful! I haven’t been able to track down a UK publisher. 😅 This is the picture book I mentioned. My kids loved the included audiobook—if anyone still has a CD player. Once Upon a Time in Japan by the NHK, trans. Roger Pulvers and Juliet Winters Carpenter.

I go back to this book again and again when considering how English came to be the global language and what that means.

“The Great Passage” by Shion Miura. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. About a many year effort to compile a dictionary and the quirky, dedicated people making it happen. I enjoyed the anime so much I read the novel it’s based on & loved it! 1/ 🧵 #books #novels #TheGreatPassage

The work of Fumiko Enchi (1905-1986) is steeped in the Japanese classics, especially The Tale of Genji and Noh drama. Her novel Masks, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, is perhaps her best-known novel in English. The famous masks used by Noh performers play an important thematic role.

My favorite among her works is the wonderful translation of Mizumura Minae's _A True Novel_. Both a transposition of Wuthering Heights into postwar Japan and a rewarding read at granular and potboiler plot level. English depts should put this on their prestige/gothic novel syllabi, stat!

The legendary translator Juliet Winters Carpenter has passed away. Among her incredibly varied projects were works appropriate for YA/YA+. Here is an interview with her about two of them. May they keep reaching readers this #IntlYALitMonth: ihatov.wordpress.com/2022/07/10/t...

Thank you @wearealsc.bsky.social for new updates to #BatchelderAward Criterion 4 about #TranslatorsOnTheCover, and the committee manual. The manual now links to @authorsguild.org and @penamerica.bsky.social model contracts for literary #translation. Criteria, manual here: www.ala.org/alsc/awardsg...

Delighted to see THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST shortlisted for this year's Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) Translated YA Book Prize! glli-us.org/2026/04/02/a...

When asked how she feels about cleaning up AI translations, @marianallanos.bsky.social said she gets hives. 😂 And no wonder! Such a creative translator and author! #SCBWI

To celebrate my 30th year editing books for young readers, I'm giving away a FREE edit of a picture book manuscript (up to 900 words) or the first 20 pages of a chapter book, MG, YA, New Adult, or graphic novel (text only) manuscript. Go to DearEditor.com to enter! www.deareditor.com/2026/04/free...

Thank you, Avery!! Sorry to make you miss your stop, but you know I understand what a high compliment that is. 💚

Happy #bookbirthday to RIALTO by @katemilford.bsky.social! I rode the wrong train for a very long time while absorbed in this book—its music and magic, its #Missouri setting, its celebrations of community and mental health, its lexicon... millefiori! runnels! Read it! bookshop.org/p/books/rial...

This week! Recording available for 30 days to all who register. #kidlit #translation

What does a children’s book translator actually do? Sylvia Notini takes us behind the scenes 👀 #namethetranslator #translation #worldkidlit worldkidlit.org/2026/04/13/m...

Just announced at the Bologna Children's Book Fair: Michael Rosen and Cai Gao have won the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards for author and illustrator, respectively!

Don't miss amazing author Núria Figueras & talented translator @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social sharing their stunning and gentle picture book - The Visit. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Anna Font @ebyrbooks.bsky.social #interview #kidlit #silence #quiet 📚👍

A great thing about being a book nerd is that other book nerds will gravitate toward you (and you to them), and then you can give each other the books you're finished reading and talk about them over delicious food and beverages. It is a pretty good life to live.

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On April 16, #SCBWI's Southwest Texas region will feature @marianallanos.bsky.social in the webinar Children's Books in Translation - Behind the Scenes! Check it out and register here! 👇 #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8 www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...

Dublin has so many fantastic bookstores, but this might be my favorite! Books Upstairs has a great selection of books and a wonderful cafe. (Ironically the books are downstairs and the cafe upstairs.) I recommend the carrot cake--and love the no laptops policy. They ask you to read a book instead.📚

I always look forward to the Kirkus Reviews International Issue. This year's features THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST in a piece by @mahnazdar.bsky.social! 🙏 www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

The 2026 Outstanding International Books List from @usbby.bsky.social, first presented last month at the New York conference of @scbwi.bsky.social, is now in School Library Journal and available at @slj.com: www.slj.com/story/usbby-... #kidlit #worldkidlit #BookIndustryNews

Representatives of @usbby.bsky.social read and released the 2026 Outstanding International Books (OIB) List at #scbwiNY26. Amazing to see this live! A map showed the selected books' countries of origin. #kidlit #worldkidlit www.usbby.org/2026oib.html

A shout-out to the regional team leaders who volunteer their services throughout SCBWI. The global leadership sessions behind-the-scenes at #scbwiNY26 were a privilege to join.

I met @patiencehaggin.bsky.social, one of two winners of the 2025 #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect #Translation Grant! A translator from Italian knows where to go for espresso in New York! Patience's sample, together with fellow winner Aerin Park's, was on showcase for industry professionals at #scbwiNY26.

Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, songs, ideas, and encouragement were in the air at the #scbwiNY26 Translators Meet-Up! #SCBWITranslation

Here we go! #scbwiNY26 Translators, see you at our meet-up at 6 p.m. on Saturday! #scbwiTranslation

Think this cover looks good? Vote for it (General Fiction #22) and check out the book itself, River of Dolls by Suzanne Kamata! www.bedsidereading.com/vote.html?fb...

"So relaxing that I feared getting bored by it at first." I actually love how this review captures the cozy, comforting side of THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST. And snowflakes fall as you scroll! ❄️ #kidlit #translation #xl8 #SachikoKashiwaba zezeewithbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/t...

Day #13: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Translated Children's Books. So many incredible books hit our shores in a given year, that it only makes sense to write an entire post about them today. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/13/3...

Hold the phone. @mlynxqualey.bsky.social has been authoring in addition to her amazing translating. I need to get last winter's issue of Prairie Schooner stat!

“You know what’s faster than mopping? Not spilling in the first place.” 👏

I have listened and re-listened to Suzanne Kamata’s recent talk for #SCBWI #Japan, about #writing while teaching and parenting in a situation where all three pursuits have been very intense at times. Suzanne keeps going! 💪 Excited to read her latest: River of Dolls and Other Stories.

Thank you for pointing up all the wonderful #translations recognized thos year by @nytimes.com in their #BestIllustrated awards worldkidlit.org/2025/11/24/n...

Katherine Paterson's #kidsbook about Jella Lepman earns a #Star "Paterson portrays her as a woman whose boundless energy, practicality, and persistence enabled her to achieve her goals...in this well-researched, insightful, and consistently engaging story" www.booklistonline.com/products/979...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and landowners are overseeing conservation efforts. www.kmuw.org/2025-12-01/l...

Pick up a book from our collection or download one from @libbyapp.com and @hoopladigital.bsky.social ! #AuthorQuotes #MondayMotivations

@wydobson.bsky.social The next will very definitely involve 🧙‍♀️🐉!

Sachiko Kashiwaba joined me for this video about THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST on Libby & Sora Reads. Look for Kashiwaba-san 40 seconds in! ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JuG...