Chinese Books for Young Readers -- children's and YA books created in Chinese -- @helenwanglondon @Anguche @minjiech #WorldKidLitMonth #WorldKidLit
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23 Nov 2024
NEW POST: 170. “Perfect Picture Books” from Cardinal Media - chinesebooksforyoungreaders.…
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10 Nov 2024
NEW POST: The 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards - nominations from China and Taiwan (past and present)
chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… #worldkidlit
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20 Oct 2024
NEW POST:
Interview with Jennifer Bond (@ucl) on the complex identities of Chinese girls who attended Western Christian missionary schools in Republican China
chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… Thank you, Jenny!
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15 Oct 2024
The (incomplete) Lit in Colour book list - 100 texts by writers of colour - pre-school to KS2 edition - Vol. 4
wp.penguin.co.uk/wp-content/…
HT @HertsEnglish
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10 Oct 2024
100 books by authors of colour wp.penguin.co.uk/wp-content/… Well worth a visit @mattheweduk @benniekara @rachelayres1979 @Team_English1 @BarbaraBleiman Worth sharing too!
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11 Oct 2024
This is the most wonderful competition - please consider sharing it, and if you are a teacher, encouraging children in your class to take part!
11 Oct 2024
Calling all budding poets!
Just 2 weeks left to submit to @RIL_YorksHumb’s Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition for #LeedsLanguageWeek
Aged 8-18? Submit by 25 Oct:
artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our… @ismla_uk #mfltwitterati #EAL
ALT Mother Tongue: Other Tongue Poetry Competition. Learning a new language or speak another language at home? Enter an original poem for a chance to be featured in a digital anthology. Deadline 25th October.
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11 Oct 2024
NEW POST - here are the 10 Chinese titles selected as White Ravens by the International Youth Library in 2024! chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… @IJBib
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1 Oct 2024
Also - students in China are still supposed to read 'whole books.' Below is a 'literary' selection recommended to 12-15 y/o students by the Ministry of Education for independent reading moe.gov.cn/jyb_xwfb/gzdt_gzd…
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30 Sep 2024
NEW POST - actually it’s a list of all 30 (yes, thirty!) posts about #TaiwanKidLit by Eleanor Duggan on the Global Literature in Libraries blog during #WorldKidLitMonth - wow!
chinesebooksforyoungreaders.…
Thank you, Eleanor and @GlobalLitin
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27 Sep 2024
Fantastic paper - congratulations Yue!
26 Sep 2024
Very happy to share our new paper exploring how multilingual children perceive their well-being in their heritage language learning journey.
It’s open access – check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.system.202…
#HeritageLanguage #Wellbeing #Multilingualism
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30 Sep 2024
The second "Multilingual Libraries in Schools" newsletter went out last week on the European Day of Languages - anybody signing up gets all previous editions, with tips about how to start a multilingual library in school (or another context) :) forms.gle/nngAQuW6MenU2rZ76
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Mama is a Cloud - A Journey through Life's Emotions, by Higo Wu, illustrated by Bei-Lynn ☁️☁️☁️
glli-us.org/2024/09/27/taiwa…
#UntranslatedGems #TaiwanKidLit 🧵
ALT Mama is a Cloud - A Journey through Life's Emotions, by Higo Wu, illustrated by Bei-Lynn ☁️☁️☁️
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Meet Joyce Sun - the Magical Illustrator from #Taiwan
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#TaiwanKidLit #PictureBooks #Illustration 🧵
ALT Taiwanese picture book illustrator Joyce Sun holds open one of her books
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27 Sep 2024
I was gutted when she was down and cheered at every high. Every turn of the page had my heart racing. Fast-paced, action-packed but plenty of heart. What an amazing read. #youngadult #diversereads #representationmatters #ESEAHeritageMonth justinelaismith.wordpress.co…
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Whimsy and Wisdom: Exploring the Enchanting World of Liu Hsu Kung's #PictureBooks
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#Taiwan #TaiwanKidLit #WorldKidLit 🧵
ALT Look at you! Look at the Mess You've Made! book cover
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: A Taste of Taiwan through Taiwanese Young Adult Fantasy
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#Taiwan #YALit #IntlYALit #UntranslatedGems 🧵
ALT Fantasy series in Taiwanese children's literature
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Exploring the Creative Journey of Liu Hsu-Kung
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#PictureBooks #Taiwan #Creativity
#WorldKidLit #WorldKidLitMonth🧵
ALT Author Liu Hsu-Kung and guest curator Eleanor Duggan. One of his picture book covers.
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26 Sep 2024
** NEW POST **
The 2024-2025 Chinese Panda Book Awards Shortlists are out! Over 30 shortlisted titles, arranged in 4 age-groups, with short summaries. chinesebooksforyoungreaders.… #WorldKidLitMonth
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#TaiwanKidLitMonth: Discover Taiwan Through These Picture Books
glli-us.org/2024/09/19/taiwa…
#TaiwanKidLit
#WorldKidLitMonth #PictureBooks🧵
ALT I Love Boba! book cover
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