An Anniversary and What’s Coming Soon
Celebration of the blog’s fourth anniversary with popular posts and an announcement of three forthcoming translations.
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The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival: Historical Fiction for Kids and the Value of Small Presses
A summary of the PEN “Won’t Know Much About History” panel on children’s historical fiction at the Brooklyn Book Festival and meeting small press YA publishers.
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Original Sin
This is not what I wanted to return home to — the images of two African-American men gunned down by white police officers in as many days. We protest the killings...
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A Book Fair!
My day at the 86th Lisbon Book Fair, where I checked out Portugal’s publishers and bought more books than I can carry home.
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Meeting the Illustrators
I meet all three illustrators of books I’ve translated at the opening of an exhibit of works by the Brazilian-Portuguese artist Yara Kono.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
