August is Women in Translation Month! Here are Japan kidlit titles (picture book through Young Adult) by #womenintranslation that have appeared on this blog so far. Click to read more!
The Nurse and the Baker by Mika Ichii, translated by Hart Larrabee
Little Keys and the Red Piano by Hideko Ogawa, translated by Kazuko Enda and Deborah Iwabuchi
The Bear and the Wildcat by Kazumi Yumoto, illustrated by Komako Sakai, translated by Cathy Hirano
Are You An Echo? The Lost of Poems of Misuzu Kaneko by David Jacobson, illustrated by Toshikado Hajiri, translated by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Totto-chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, translated by Dorothy Britton
The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Brave Story written by Miyuki Miyabe, translated by Alexander O. Smith
TOMO with stories by Naoko Awa, Yukie Chiri, Megumi Fujino, Sachiko Kashiwaba, Arie Nashiya, Yuko Katakawa, and Fumio Takano; translated by Toshiya Kamei, Deborah Davidson, Lynne E. Riggs, Avery Fischer Udagawa, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Deborah Iwabuchi, and Hart Larrabee
Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara, translated by Cathy Hirano
Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince by Noriko Ogiwara, translated by Cathy Hirano
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Confessions by Kanae Minato, translated by Stephen Snyder
SCBWI Japan Translation Group 