World Kid Lit Month 2024: Around the World

 Here are some of my favourite picture books which span the globe. 

Celebrate by Laura Mucha & Hannah Tolson

How better to kick off my World Kid Lit Month, than with a book about celebrations and parties! There are worldwide celebrations, and then site-specific ones. 

List of festivals included: Arbor Day, Argungu Fishing Festival, Barriletes Gigantes, Bloemencorso Zundert, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Constitution Day, Crepissage De La Grande Mosque, Cure Sale, Diade los Muertos, Diablos Danzantesdel Yare, Diwali, Duanwu, Easter, Eid, Festival of Giants, Festival of Near-Death Experiences, Fiesta de la Tirana, Gion Festival, Golden Stilt Festival, Guca Trumpet Festival, Guy Fawkes Night, Halloween, Heivai Tahiti, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Indian Market, Inti Raymi, Juneteenth, Kurentovanje, Kuru Dance Festival, Lajkonik, Las Parrandas, Laura Quinkan Dance Festival, Lotus Lantern Festival, Moussemof Sidi Hmad Mghani, Naadam, Nowruz, Oruro Carnival, Pchum Ben, Pesach, Quebec Winter Carnival, Rio Carnival, Tango Festival, Thanksgiving, The Great Ethiopian Run, Toraja Funeral Rites, Vaisakhi, Venice Carnival, Waitangi Day, Yam Festival. 

Hanukkah upside down by Elissa Brent Weissman & Omer Hoffman

Cousinly rivalry from the other side of the world based on Hanukkah traditions. 

Let's play football by Ben Lerwill & Marina Ruiz Fernández. 

I'm not a football kind of gal, but I genuinely appreciate the global nature of the sport, which this book celebrates. 

Matariki around the world by Rangiānehu Mātāmua, Miriama Kamo, & Isobel Joy Te Aho-White. 

I'm not sure whether there are enough words in the world for how much I love this book. Yes, I own a copy. If my mother is healthy and alive at 90, there's an illustration in there she wants as a tattoo (her previous ones were for her 70th and 80th birthdays). 

Mirror by Jeannie Baker

I have a longstanding love for Jeannie Baker, and I would recommend every single one of her books - especially the ones illustrated in assemblage - but there is something even-more-than-usual magical about this title.