Going Global with Poetry

• Published in: The Booklist Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 25 - 28
• Main Author: Vardell, Sylvia M
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago Booklist Publications 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Children & youth; Poetry; Technology; United States > US
• ISSN: 0006-7385

World Kid Lit Translator Avery Fischer Udagawa puts together a tremendous annotated list, 100 Translated Children's Books from around the Year, to celebrate World Kid Lit Month in September on the blog World Literature for Kids (https://worldkidlit.wordpress.com/ blog/). A quick search for books of poems reveals more than 600 books of poetry and nursery rhymes in English, Russian, Mongolian, Serbian, Hebrew, Spanish, Persian/ Farsi, Yiddish, Finnish, Swedish, Arabic, Hungarian, Croatian, Dutch, Danish, German, French, and Polish. Australian Children's Poetry If you want to explore the world of Australian Children's Poetry (https:// australianchildrenspoetry.com.au), you can do no better than this site, which features links to more than 50 Australian poets who write for young people, many of whom, like Sally Murphy, Kathryn Apel, and Steven Herrick, also publish in the U.S. In addition, this comprehensive website includes articles and reviews, competitions, interviews, and lots of links. The Outstanding International Books List (http://www. usbby.org/list_oibl.html), established by the U.S. Board on Books for Young People, is published every year and focuses on books published or distributed in the U.S. that originated or were first published in a country other than the U.S. This list typically includes several books of poetry.