Today, I've the very great pleasure to be talking with Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Editorial Director Kathleen Merz alongside the award-winning translator Lawrence Schimel about the EBYR Stories from Latin America series that's coming out this year.
Here's a person you should probably meet. We discuss translating puns, how to avoid gendering characters, shifts in public perceptions of translation here in the States, and what happens when your same-sex family board books are simultaneously attacked by the governments of Hungary and Russia.