Global Voices Part 2: English-language Asia-set Children’s and YA Fiction

Last week PaperTigers.org, the wonderful website that focuses on multicultural books for young readers, world literacy and more, launched a series on the PaperTigers Blog called Global Voices. I was honored to be asked to be the first guest blogger for this new program. The PaperTigers Blog describes the new Global Voices program: "Each month we will be inviting a guest to join us and write three blog posts. The posts will be published on three consecutive Wednesdays within each month under the title “Global Voices”. Our guests, located around the world, are all involved in the world of kid and YA lit and include award winning authors and illustrators, bloggers, librarians, educators and more! It is our hope that through the Global Voices posts we can better highlight the world of multicultural kid lit and YA lit in different countries around the world."

My first post in the series was Japanese Picture Books as a Window to Japan.

My second post is English-language Asia-set Children's and YA Fiction and shares experiences searching for Asian-set fiction while raising our children here in Japan, what was available and what wasn't, and how the fiction offerings for readers and the opportunities for writers in Asia at last seem to be shifting. Have a look and feel free to comment!