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Are you looking to add more diverse books to your bookshelves, or to your library stack? Why not look beyond your country’s borders to see what children around the world are reading?
Each week my daughters (ages 6 & 4) and I are reading as many picture books as we can find from a different country. So far, between 2021 – 2023, we have read books from 61+ countries, and are excited for all the countries we have left. We have discovered so many amazing books we never would have read before starting this project.
We love getting recommendations for can’t miss picture books from around the world, so please share the great ones you know about! Stop back here each week, or follow us on Instagram @kidsreadtheworld to see what we’re reading.
For a full list of the picture books we’ve read and loved, you can visit the Picture Book List. There is also an Adult Book List for the books I’m reading from some countries.
From the blog
May 2023 New Releases
These are the new releases that came out in May 2023 that I reviewed. Many of them updated lists for countries we have read books from already.…
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May 2023 List Updates
I did not review as many books as usual this month. We are in the processing of buying a house; yikes! Hopefully by mid-summer things will settle…
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Kids Read: Costa Rica
We read two books set in Costa Rica this week. Both took place in the rainforest, a place my girls are both hoping to visit someday. One…
Keep readingApril 2023 New Releases
These are the new releases that came out in April 2023 that I reviewed. Many of them updated lists for countries we have read books from already.…
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Kids Read: Cambodia
I was able to find quite a few books set in Cambodia this week. Huy Voun Lee, a Cambodian-American author has great books, many of them bilingual,…
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Kids Read: Belarus
After a fruitless search for picture books from or set in Belarus, Sherry Early, author of Picture Book Preschool, suggested Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s…
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Buzz Worthy Bee Books
This post, authored by me, was originally posted on World Kid Lit last summer. Bees and I have a love-hate relationship, but only because somewhere along the…
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Kids Read: The Netherlands
There are quite a few translated picture books around from The Netherlands. We read a few this week, which you can read more about below. There are…
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March 2023 List Updates
I updated a few lists this month with newly released and newly found titles. Check them out below. Let me know if you decide to pick any…
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March 2023 New Releases
These are the new releases that came out in March 2023 that I reviewed. If you know of any other can’t miss titles please let me know!…
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About Me
Hi, I’m Lori, a U.S. based mother of two girls (6 years old, and 4 years old), a wife, a special education teacher in a public school, and a picture book lover for as long as I can remember. I got tired to reading the same old picture books available at big box stores, so set out to discover what stories kids around the world are hearing and reading.
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