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Tag Archives: Batchelder Award
Prizes and surprises
Blimey! What an exciting and surprising month it’s been. One of my recent translations, The War within These Walls, written by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki, and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, has won a hat-trick of amazing awards in the United States: the Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged ALA, Aline Sax, Caryl Strzelecki, Jewish Book Award, Mister Orange, SCBWI, STBA, The Letter for the King, The War within These Walls, Truus Matti 4 Comments
A Celebration of Soldier Bear
Thanks very much to my friends Mina Witteman and Rachelle Meyer of the Dutch chapter of the SCBWI for organising a celebration of Soldier Bear, which recently won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for “the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, [...]
Soldier Bear on Eerdword
Kathleen Merz, managing editor for Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, has written a very interesting piece on Eerdword, the company blog, about Soldier Bear, the Batchelder, and the Risky Business of Publishing International Literature.
Eerdword also kindly posted a blog piece that I wrote about Voytek, my experience of translating Soldier Bear, and why that bear’s [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged ALA, Bibi Dumon Tak, children's literature, Eerdmans, Soldier Bear 2 Comments
Batchelder Award for Soldier Bear
I’m absolutely delighted, thrilled, over the moon that the 2012 Mildred L. Batchelder Award “for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States” has gone to Bibi Dumon Tak’s Soldier Bear (original title: Soldaat Wojtek, publ. Querido), which I translated for Eerdmans. A fantastic book and [...]
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Hoorah for Mikis and the Donkey!