31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Translated Picture Books

So. Many. Translations!!!

I am just floored. Did you see Leonard Marcus’s article in the New York Times yesterday called The Caldecott Medal Needs an International Makeover? In the piece Marcus notes that after WWII, two awards for children’s literature that were open to international recipients began (The New York Times Best Illustrated list and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, respectively). He writes, “Two devastating world wars had prompted some idealists to wonder if a cross-cultural...