Global Voices Part 3: Children's and YA Books in Translation from Japan

Recently 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."

You can read Part 1 of my three-part series here and Part 2 here.

In my Global Voices post Part 3 I share my thoughts on children's and YA books in translation from Japan. I also offer links to books and publishers and the SCBWI Tokyo Translation Group.

Please have a look at the post and add your comments. Recommend your favorite children's, MG and YA Japanese books in translation!

Thanks to the interest in manga and anime worldwide, there is a bit more interest in Japanese fiction for teens these days. I'm especially hoping to discover more and more Japanese YA novels in translation in the coming years.