Bookish Reminders Here and Abroad
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Contributed to CBC Diversity by Julie Bliven, Editor at Charlesbridge
Last month I joined
seven other children’s book editors on a week-long trip across Germany, sponsored
by the German Book Office of New York. The program nurtures Germany’s
relationships with publishers around the globe, as Deutschland
imports roughly 50% of its children’s books from other countries.