91. Our first 90 posts!

1. Chinese books for young readers (Sep 12, 2016)
2. Gerelchimeg Blackcrane (Sep 13, 2016)
3. Chinese children’s literature and the UK National Curriculum (Sep 14, 2016)
4. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (Sep 15, 2016)
5. The Reason for Being Late (Sep 16, 2016)
6. Why Translations? Don’t We ‘Already Have Chinese Stories in English’? (Sep 27, 2016)
7. A Brief History of Chinese Literature for Children, What Sells Now, and More (Oct 1, 2016)
8. The “Warring States” world of picture books … in a big Hangzhou bookshop (Oct 2, 2016)
9. Poems for Children – selected by Bei Dao (Oct 7, 2016)
10. Happy Double Ninth (Chongyang) Festival! (Oct 9, 2016)
11. Literature: Another Form of Housebuilding – Cao Wenxuan’s acceptance speech
    (Oct 14, 2016)
12. Crossing Cultures: Belle Yang, A Story of Immigration (Oct 16, 2016)
13. I am a tiger! (Oct 20, 2016)
14. Bronze and Sunflower shortlisted for the Marsh Award (Oct 24, 2016)
15. Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours 2017 – shortlist (Nov 2, 2016)
16. Zhang Xinxin and Little People’s Books (Nov 3, 2016)
17. Calling them Asian-American books isn’t sufficient… (Nov 8, 2016)
18. Made in China: 10 picture books you can’t miss (Nov 13, 2016)
19. A picture’s worth a thousand words… (Nov 14, 2016)
20. Reflecting Teenagers on a Sichuanese Mirror: Yan Ge and her stories from Pingle Township (Nov 19, 2016)
21. Context and contradiction in translating Aroma’s Little Garden, by Qin Wenjun (Nov 30, 2016)
22. Jin Jin (1915-1989) (Dec 27, 2016)
23. Bing Xin and The Little Orange Lantern (Dec 29, 2016)
24. Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) and Bambi (Jan 3, 2017)
25. Yu Rong’s paper cuttings (Jan 11, 2017)
26. The Good Things That Come out of Collisions (Jan 15, 2017)
27. Helen Wang Wins the 2017 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (Jan 30, 2017)
28. The Ventriloquist’s Daughter: Between Fantasy and Reality – by Lin Man-chiu (Feb 23, 2017)
29. One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Social Experiment – by Mei Fong (Feb 24, 2017)
30. St Gregory’s School ‘Reading China’ book group – by Theresa Munford (Feb 25, 2017)
31. The Story of Ink and Water – by Chun Zhang (Feb 26, 2017)
32. Sister – by Peng Xuejun (Mar 5, 2017)
33. I Am Mulan (Mar 13, 2017)
34. Bronze and Sunflower – now available in the USA and Canada! (Mar 21, 2017)
35. The King of Hide-and-Seek (Apr 8, 2017)
36. Bilingual books from Candied Plums (Apr 17, 2017)
37. Chinese literature festival in London, 12-14 May (May 5, 2017)
38. The Ventriloquist’s Daughter – now available! (May 25, 2017)
39. A Tree (Jun 9, 2017)
40. Stephanie Gou on how Bronze and Sunflower opened a door to her memories (Jun 13, 2017)
41. Who is Wenzheng Fu? (Jun 18, 2017)
42. Author-illustrator Lipei Huang (Jun 25, 2017)
43. Starfish Bay Children’s Books (Jul 10, 2017)
44. “Plums” for Your Tongue: Chinese Children’s Literature for Language Learners (Jul 21, 2017)
45. The 10th National Outstanding Children’s Literature Awards, 2017 (Aug 6, 2017)
46. The Only Child, by Guojing (Aug 11, 2017)
47. CFP: Asian Festival of Children’s Content (Aug 30, 2017)
48. Little Soldier Zhang Ga (Sep 30, 2017)
49. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 (Oct 4, 2017)
50. 12 Books for the Holidays (Oct 5, 2017)
51. David Jacobson’s survey of translations of children’s and YA Literature translated from Chinese, Japanese and Korean (Oct 16, 2017)
52. List of Chinese-Themed Books for Kids and Teens – by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (Oct 19, 2017)
53. A Cross-Cultural Conversation Between Two Master Storytellers at the 2017 USBBY Conference (Oct 27, 2017)
54. Chinese children’s and YA books, in English, 2017 (Dec 11, 2017)
55. The 2017 Bai Meigui Translation Competition is now open! (Dec 12, 2017)
56. What’s the difference between children’s books in China and the US? (Jan 7, 2018)
57. Dong Yanan’s picture books (Jan 18, 2018)
58. China Welfare Institute Publishing House: Picture Books from China, with Love & Beauty (Jan 22, 2018)
59. Interview with Chloe Garcia Roberts, translator of the picture book “Feather” by Cao Wenxuan and Roger Mello (Jan 25, 2018)
60. Getting to Know Rural Young Chinese Readers and Their World(s) (Jan 29, 2018)
61. Our first 60 posts! (Feb 4, 2018)
62. The NCTA Freeman Book Awards (Feb 6, 2018)
63. Witness China’s New Love: the Changing Landscape of Chinese Children’s Literature (Feb 14, 2018)
64. Books from Taiwan (Mar 1, 2018)
65. The Tortoise Family goes to the Sea, and Blind Little Red Riding Hood (Mar 12, 2018)
66. Children’s Books in China 2018 (and 2017) (Apr 6, 2018)
67. Chinese Dinosaurs in an English Village (May 20, 2018)
68. The Cao Wenxuan Children’s Literature Award (Jun 10, 2018)
69. Teardrops of the Christmas Tree: A Memorable Childhood Reading Experience (Jul 10, 2018)
70. Vikki Zhang, illustrator with a love of textiles and fashion (Aug 14, 2018)
71. Let’s Talk to Kids about Sex… in Chinese, Q&A with Minjie Chen (Sep 3, 2018)
72. People Reading in Chinese Art (Sep 15, 2018)
73. Our First 72 Posts! (22 Oct 2018)
74. Theresa Mumford, Chinese Teacher (1 Nov 2018)
75. Jennie Liu’s Childhood Reading in the USA, 1970s-80s (8 Nov 2018)
76. Children’s Literature from Hong Kong in English (6 Dec 2018)
77. Science Fiction for Children – Selected by Liu Cixin and Han Song (10 Dec 2018)
78. Childhood in a Courtyard House (14 Dec 2018)
79. Asian Children’s Literature, Film and Animation (special issue of SARE 2018) (3 Jan 2019)
80. Translator Dong Haiya Studies Children’s Literature at Reading (14 Jan 2019)
81. Justine Laismith and the Secrets of the Great Fire Tree (31 Mar 2019)
82. White Horse by Yan Ge (29 Apr 2019)
83. Interview with Yangsze Choo, author of “The Ghost Bride” (14 May 2019)
84. Exams, Handwriting and School Stories (20 May 2019)
85. The Moose of Ewenki (27 Aug 2019)
86. International Research on Chinese Children’s Literature (IRSCL 2019) (12 Sep 2019)
87. The 10th Asian Festival of Children’s Content – Sparking New Ideas (15 Sep 2019)
88. Two Temples, and Two Approaches to Depicting Religions to Children (30 Oct 2018)
89. “My Favourite Children’s Books” – children in China vote for their Top 30 books of 2019 (3 Nov 2019)
90. Christmas in China (5 Jan 2019)

87. The 10th Asian Festival of Children’s Content – sparking new ideas

I’ve just returned from the Asian Festival of Children’s Content, in Singapore. It was the 10th AFCC, and my 1st time to the AFCC or Singapore. I’m so grateful to the Singapore Book Council – in particular William Phuan, Caroline Wan and Chloe Tong and their team – for inviting me (I gave a keynote, was on a panel, gave a lecture, and a masterclass).

67. Chinese dinosaurs in an English village

The Linton Children’s Book Festival takes place this weekend, in the beautiful English village of Linton, not far from Cambridge.  I was invited to introduce DONG Yanan’s book Express Delivery from Dinosaur World yesterday, and the event was fully booked! 32 young readers (some as young as two years old) came along with their parents.

61. Our first 60 posts!

Here’s a list of our first 60 posts! Thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way, to our guest-writers and interviewees, and, of course, to our readers!

50. 12 Books for the Holidays

Earlier this week, Tomorrow Publishing House (Tiantian chubanshe 天天出版社) posted a piece recommending some good reads for children during this holiday week in China. If you need a rest from National Day, moon-gazing, mooncakes and so on, try these:

49. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2017

Meng Yanan’s picture book Happy Mid-Autumn Festival  (孟亚楠：《中秋节快乐》) won the gold prize in the 2016 Bronze and Sunflower Picture Book Awards 青铜葵花图画书奖. Congratulations to Meng Yanan, and Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone!

47. CFP: Asian Festival of Children’s Content

Call For Papers: for the 9^th Asian Festival of Children’s Content 亚洲少儿读物节 , to be held in Singapore, 5-9 September 2018 (details here). Deadline: 15 September 2017.

23. Bing Xin and The Little Orange Lantern

Bing Xin 冰心 (1900-1999) is a major figure in Chinese literature, and the Bing Xin Children’s Literature Award 冰心儿童文学新作奖 is one of the four major Chinese literature awards. This month, one of Bing Xin’s most famous works, The Little Orange Lantern 《小橘灯》，was featured on Brigitte Duzan’s website Chineseshortstories (including the memoir -essay in Chinese, her translation into French, and the background to the story). Inspired by Brigitte’s post, I have created a similar version for English readers here.

10. Happy Double Ninth (Chongyang) Festival!

Today’s another festival! This one takes place on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month – it’s usually in October, and this year it’s on 9th October.

4. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 is one of the most important Chinese festivals. It takes place on the 15^th day of the 8^th month in the Chinese calendar, and is a celebration of the full moon closest to the Autumn Equinox. In other words, it’s the full moon we see in September or early October, known in English as the Harvest Moon.