BOOK HUNGER
More than one billion children lack story books in their mother tongue.
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More than 55,000 picture books are for sale in English, but just 2,000 in Portuguese and a mere 500 in Zulu. Most of the world's languages have no children's books.
It simply is not profitable to publish outside of a handful of the most dominant languages.
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Yet thousands of globally appropriate, gorgeous books already exist. They simply need to be translated.
The Campaign to End Book Hunger empowers authors, illustrators, publishers, and nonprofits to put their creations to charitable use in any language.
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TOGETHER, WE CAN END BOOK HUNGER.
Because every child has the right to read.
ENDING BOOK HUNGER
Prof. Lea Shaver
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An eye-opening account of the unmet need for access to books, and the nonprofit organizations working for change.
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Forthcoming from Yale University Press in Fall 2019.
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Prof. Lea Shaver
Indiana University
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Indianapolis, IN 46202