March 23, 2013

Spotlight on Japanese Children’s Books

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The website, Books from Japan, maintained by J-Lit center, is featuring a new selection of Japanese children’s books available for translation and publication overseas on the occasion of the 50th Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which will take place March 25-28, 2013.

See the selection of children’s books waiting to be translated here.

Here is a Publisher’s Weekly article about children’s publishing in Asia over the past year.

Connect with translators of Japanese children’s and teen literature via SWET or the SCBWI Translation group.

(via Avery Udagawa)