It's award season in the land of Children's Lit (ALA awards are on February 12th!) and the United States Book Board for Young people just released their 2018 Outstanding International Booklist as well. You can find it here if you're interested!
I have to admit that I was a little disappointed in their picture book (I was using the K-2 designation) choices as less than half were translated titles. While I understand that it's international books, not just translated materials, it seemed sharply skewed to titles from English speaking countries (Canada, UK and Australia). And no love for South America. On the other hand, I was excited to see titles from China and South Korea, suggesting that we may be seeing more translated titles from there to come!
From the list, I'm most excited to get my hands on Plume and Days with Dad as I've been reading great things about both titles!
