My Children’s Books Around the World project has been languishing somewhat. It’s not always easy to get one’s hand on the books, sometimes necessarily in translation, in order to actually read them.
Here are 12 books I’d like to go ahead and read this year:
Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall. (Australia)
The Boundary Riders by Joan Phipson. (Australia)
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat. (Canada)
The Horse Without a Head/ A Hundred Million Francs by Paul Berna. (France)
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer. (Mozambique)
Simple National Slovak Tales by Pavol Dobsinsky (Slovakia)
Jungle Doctor by Paul White. (Tanzania)
Children of the River by Linda Crew. (Cambodia)
It’s a Jungle Out There! by Ron Snell. (Peru)
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. (Afghanistan)
The Storyteller’s Beads by Jane Kurtz. (Ethiopia)
The Princess and the Lion by Elizabeth Coatsworth. (Abyssinia/Ethiopia)
All of these, except for the Slovak tales, I have in my library, ready to be read.
I also have a separate list of British children’s books that I’d like to read this year and also a list of books about India (mostly adult), a country I’d like to focus on in 2018. Stay tuned for reviews and comments on all of these as the year progresses.
I see that you already have some Japanese books, but you might take a look at TotoChan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The author is well known in Japan, and my Japanese friend recommended it to me. It’s a delightful story.
What a great list! My 10 yo and I read The Magic Pudding last year from Australia and it was so funny! My 12 yo and I are enjoying The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind about Malawian boy.