The Batchelder Award for translated children’s literature is one of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards just named this week at the close of the Midwinter Meeting.
A detail from ‘Telephone Tales,’ illustrated by Valerio Vidali, translated by Antony Shugaar from Gianni Rodari. Image: Enchanted Lion Books
A New Translation of Rodari
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Publishing Perspectives readers because it’s one of the most popular books recently donated by Italians to their libraries in that country’s #IoLeggoPerché annual book donation project (“Why I Read”).
As we reported, that program produced a bracingly generous response when the Association of Italian Publishers’ (