Avery Udagawa
@averyudagawa
Kansan in Thailand, translator of Japanese children's literature, believer in #worldkidlit www.averyfischerudagawa.com
Voted in the #Kansas primary election today with my newly eligible-to-vote daughter! ❤️🌾
"I will not let people push me into a too-early deadline, because I know it's not going to be good, and my name is going to be on there." Sage advice from Eva Apelqvist at the #scbwiSummer26 Translators' Social! #SCBWITranslation #kidlit #xl8
Translators, register here to join a social featuring Eva Apelqvist, translator of FIRE FROM THE SKY by Moa Backe Åstot—only the second title in #translation to be named a Printz Honor book! Thurs, July 30, 7-8pm Central scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi... A free part of #scbwiSummer26 ⭐️ #ya #xl8 #kidlit
Translation is "making choice after thoughtful choice so that a child reading in another language laughs at the same joke, feels the same sense of comfort or the same sense of wonder." Editor and translator María Camila Correa at @scbwisf.bsky.social webinar on July 10. 📚 #SCBWITranslation #kidlit
When asked how she feels about cleaning up AI translations, @marianallanos.bsky.social said she gets hives. 😂 And no wonder! Such a creative translator and author! #SCBWI
Happy #bookbirthday to RIALTO by @katemilford.bsky.social! I rode the wrong train for a very long time while absorbed in this book—its music and magic, its #Missouri setting, its celebrations of community and mental health, its lexicon... millefiori! runnels! Read it! bookshop.org/p/books/rial...
Books on the 2026 Outstanding International Books (OIB) List were also presented in groups by theme. It's a marvel how themes cross borders while particulars of the books diverge and diverge.
Representatives of @usbby.bsky.social read and released the 2026 Outstanding International Books (OIB) List at #scbwiNY26. Amazing to see this live! A map showed the selected books' countries of origin. #kidlit #worldkidlit www.usbby.org/2026oib.html
A shout-out to the regional team leaders who volunteer their services throughout SCBWI. The global leadership sessions behind-the-scenes at #scbwiNY26 were a privilege to join.
I met @patiencehaggin.bsky.social, one of two winners of the 2025 #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect #Translation Grant! A translator from Italian knows where to go for espresso in New York! Patience's sample, together with fellow winner Aerin Park's, was on showcase for industry professionals at #scbwiNY26.
Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, songs, ideas, and encouragement were in the air at the #scbwiNY26 Translators Meet-Up! #SCBWITranslation
Here we go! #scbwiNY26 Translators, see you at our meet-up at 6 p.m. on Saturday! #scbwiTranslation
Think this cover looks good? Vote for it (General Fiction #22) and check out the book itself, River of Dolls by Suzanne Kamata! www.bedsidereading.com/vote.html?fb...
"So relaxing that I feared getting bored by it at first." I actually love how this review captures the cozy, comforting side of THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST. And snowflakes fall as you scroll! ❄️ #kidlit #translation #xl8 #SachikoKashiwaba zezeewithbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/t...
OverDrive has updated the Libby & Sora Reads landing page to include a translator credit. Grateful for another move to #namethetranslator. #xl8 #translation pages.libbylife.com/LibbySoraReads
One daughter and I went out to lunch today, and she happened to snap a pic of my #TranslatorsAloud merch in the wild. Grab yours! 👇
Look out world, there's a new #CaoWenxuan title translated from Chinese by @helenwanglondon.bsky.social. A #picturebook this time! Illustrated by Suzy Lee . . . starred review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. #worldkidlit #kidlit
Book mail! @katemilford.bsky.social's RIALTO is coming in April and is about "anxiety and sibling relationships...to a similar degree to which GREENGLASS HOUSE is about adoption." It's set in #Missouri and involves a theme park town swallowed by forest. I'm in! #kidlit #booksky
The Wild Ones by Antonio Ramos Revillas, tr Claire Storey, would not let me go on #InternationalTranslationDay 2025. What a read. #WorldKidLitMonth #YA #xl8
AI cannot develop a relationship with an editor or have the emotional experience that a #translation must recreate. Pearls of wisdom from @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social's breakout session at #scbwiSummer25! #kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8
Saying cheese at the Translators' Social with Claire Storey at #scbwiSummer25! #SCBWITranslation #xl8 #kidlit #worldkidlit
#SCBWI Virtual Summer Conference 2025 is July 31-August 3, with “the entire program, every single class on offer” available to registrants by video replay through September 14. Schedule: www.scbwi.org/events/virtu... #Translation highlights at #scbwiSummer25:
Wonderful to hear @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social describe finding the #ya book by Ondjake that she would pitch and translate as Our Beautiful Darkness—in the stunning Lisbon bookstore Ler Devagar. Thank you to @usbby.bsky.social and #ILA for spotlighting #worldkidlit and #translation.
In her Summer 2025 State of the Children's Publishing Market talk for @scbwi.bsky.social, @deborahhalverson.bsky.social touches on how cuts to the #NationalEndowmentForTheArts affect #kidlit #translation, with reference to the #NEA grant termination tracker shared by the @authorsguild.bsky.social. 👇
The @barnesandnoble.com edition of Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, tr @tristiger.bsky.social, is so pretty! 🤩
Happy to see The Village Beyond the Mist at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social in Wichita—not far from Greenglass House by @katemilford.bsky.social, who interviewed #SachikoKashiwaba and me at an event in NYC recently! Really feel these books are literary kin.
Translators, register here to join a social featuring Claire Storey, translator of 2025 GLLI Translated #YA Book Prize winner THE DARKNESS OF COLOURS. Thurs, July 31, 7-8 am PDT/3-4 pm BST! scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Part of #scbwiSummer25. Conference registration not required to join the Zoom.
So glad you accessed Nanako Vera Mizushima’s pitch-perfect performance of The House of the Lost on the Cape! I think @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social describes it very well. #summerreading #audiobooks