Reading Diary: Levine Querido Publishers

After I got the synopsis for Sheine Lende from the publisher's website, I scrolled through to see what other books they have. The publisher, Levine Querido, is an independent publisher of children's and YA books that was founding in 2019. In an interview at the World Kid Lit blog, editor Nick Thomas says the goals for LQ are to publish books by underrepresented voices and books in translation. They have lots of LGBTQ books, but they also have books by indigenous American authors, such as Darcie Little Badger. They also published When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb, which is one of the best books I read last year, and indeed, in a long time. I saw that they are publishing Lamb's next book in October, so I gotta pre-order that!

Anyway, I hopped on my library website to see if they had some other LQ books. My hometown library didn't have many on the shelf, but we're part of a larger network in Southern Idaho which shares books, so I simply placed holds on a bunch of books which will soon be shipped to me! Well, to my hometown library.

Holds

• The Boy From Clearwater, vol 1/2 by You Peiyun (graphic novels about a boy growing up in Taiwan in the 1930's-1940's)


• 49 Days by Agnes Lee (a graphic novel about a Korean American girl who must travel for 49 days after her death until she can cross over)


• Brooms by Jasmine Walls (graphic novel set in a 1930's Mississippi where magic is controlled and only allowed to be used by certain people)


• The Queer Girl is Going to be Okay by Dale Walls (contemporary YA fiction)


• Pardalita by Joana Estrela, translated by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (contemporary YA fiction set in Portugal)


• Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera (middle grade speculative fiction)

I also bought The Days of Bluegrass Love by Edward van de Vendel (translated by Emma Rault), a book originally published in the Netherlands in 1999. It was on sale for $1.99 on Kindle, so I decided to snap it up.

I'm really looking forward to zipping through these books in my last month at home. Hopefully, they will keep me from being too anxious about packing and moving. 😬