Telephone Tales in its original Italian by the late Gianni Rodari, as it turns out, was also one of most popular books recently donated by Italians to their libraries in that country’s #IoLeggoPerché annual book donation project (“Why I Read”).Įnchanted Lion seems to have cast a happy spell on the Batchelder, having won it five times. In fact, those who know that What Is a River? is just the latest drop in a growing sea of almost 200 titles from this internationalist publisher will not have been surprised in January when Enchanted Lion won the American Library Association’s Mildred L Batchelder Award for a children’s book from a non-English language in a market outside the United States translated to English for publication in the States.
We reach across time and oceans to find new authors and old treasures to share with a new generation of readers.” The company’s publisher Claudia Zoe Bedrick has a bracingly simple way of explaining “We publish illustrated books from around the world,” she tells Publishing Perspectives, “convinced by the power of cultural exchange to inspire curiosity, awareness, and wonder in children everywhere. To those who know this press based in Brooklyn, New York, it will come as no surprise that this is a book originally published in Swedish and has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.
Image: Enchanted Lion Booksīy Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | ‘The World We Share Is Home’ On March 30, the independent children’s book publisher Enchanted Lion Books releases What Is a River?, written in English by author-illustrator Monika Vaicenavičienė. Enchanted Lion’s Claudia Zoe Bedrick with ‘Drawing on Walls’ (May 2020) author and illustrator Matthew Burgess, center, and Josh Cochrane.
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