Hunt is on for the new Pippi Longstocking

Publishing project In Other Words aims to introduce young British readers to the next generation – after Asterix and the Moomins – of international literary heroes

Pippi Longstocking, from Sweden; the Moomins from Finland; that diminutive Norwegian, Mrs Pepperpot; or Heidi, fresh from her Swiss mountainside – these foreign stars of children’s literature were popular fixtures on British bookshelves at the end of the last century. So where are the new international children’s stories for tonight’s bedtime reading?

In a push against the complacent view that work first written in English is enough for Britain’s children, the country’s foremost early reading charity is to launch a campaign to bring over translations of more books from around the globe.

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