Books ready for free download this year include today’s release of Keiichiro Hirano’s bestseller in Tokyo, ‘At the End of the Matinee.’
‘This Complex Diversity’
The author of
At the End of the Matinee leans in and sports a slightly impish smile when he hears a question he likes to answer.
Better in English than he gives himself credit for being, Keiichiro Hirano, has heard the phrase “language of relationships” in an interview with
Publishing Perspectives from his home in Japan. He’s being asked through interpreter Beth Cary about the modulating personalities in his books–intelligent, shifting souls who seem to surprise themselves as much as his readers as they move from one guise to another.
On IBBY’s International Children’s Book Day: books on Amazon Crossing Kids’ list this year include titles from Asia for the first time, as editor Marilyn Brigham looks to expand the imprint’s range.
A detail from the illustrations by Ramón París for María Eugenia Manrique’s ‘The Caiman,’ releasing July 1 from Amazon Crossing Kids. Image: ACK
Update: Today (April 2) is International Children’s Book Day, as designated by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Read more about the focus here.
Marilyn Bingham: ‘The Connectedness of All People’
Something we touched on in our March 22 interview with Enchanted Lion Books’ Claudia Zoe Bedrick quickly comes to mind as Amazon Crossing Kids editor Marilyn Brigham talks through the imprint’s list of titles for 2021.