September is World Kid Lit Month, an annual celebration of international literature for children and young adults, including books from other countries, set in other countries, or translated from other languages.

The World Kid Lit website provides a number of resources to support schools that are interested in exploring global literature as a way to provide a more diverse and inclusive reading experience:

• Read the World booklists and reading prompts for children of all ages.
• Lists of children’s and YA books in translation published for each year since 2017.
• International Reading Award – a competition to encourage and celebrate international and inclusive reading with prizes for the most internationally diverse reading project and the most innovative presentations where participants share what they have read with others. The competition is open to primary and secondary schools and is open for entries from 1st September to 23rd October 2026.

Cost: Free.

About World Kid Lit CIC: World Kid Lit CIC is a not-for-profit organisation that is dedicated to improving awareness of and access to diverse, inclusive, global literature for young people. Based in the UK, it works with literature and literacy advocates, librarians and educators across five continents to raise the profile of world literature for young people in the media, arts and education landscapes.