Childhood: Books for or about children in different cultures around the wor

thorold: Small boy in PR Congo

markon: Told from the perspective of a 15-yo girl, the child of a family in which her father is a devout Christian & respected businessman on the outside & a rigid & violent man in the household.

kidzdoc: author's childhood in Nigeria

thorold: Growing up in Zimbabwe

spiralsheep: Classic autobiographical novel of childhood in colonial French Guinea. Note: my copy is titled The African Child.

Dilara86: Growing up in West Africa, in the first part of the 20th century

nrmay: coming of age in Tehran

Dilara86: A Kyrgyz childhood

merrystar: a childhood in Australia

thorold: Rushdie’s take on the Arabian Nights

spiralsheep: Children's book about the first female drummer in Cuba.

thorold: First part of Coetzee’s fictionalised autobiography

LolaWalser: Russian/Soviet children's classic by a great modernist writer (not a children's author). Made into a play, film, ballet etc.

ahef1963: I used to own a copy of this. I bought it as a child at the Russian exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. I wonder where this book is now?

kidzdoc: Author's account of his childhood in colonial Kenya

karenb: A young kid being a kid in Côte d'Ivoire, in a series of vignettes. Akissi is Aya's young sibling.

kidzdoc: lovely story about a young girl and her grandmother on a small island in the Gulf of Finland

nrmay: teenage boy in Damascus, Syria. YA

Dilara86: Hampâté Bâ's childhood memoirs

Dilara86: Or any other book from Dorling Kindersley's Children Just Like Me series

markon: Coming of age in Nigeria during civil war. Ijeoma learns that love between girls/women is taboo.

spiphany: Adventures in 1920s Germany. Kästner also wrote an autobiographical text about growing up in pre-WWI Dresden, "When I Was a Little Boy", as well as numerous other classic children's books.

spiphany: How the modern concept of childhood emerged in the first place.

spiphany: Because the idea of "childhood" as a separate phase of life isn't the same everywhere or at all periods of history

merrystar: Children in rural Sweden; a wonderful book by the author of Pippi Longstocking

kidzdoc: 2020 Booker International Prize novel narrated by a young girl in a family in grief after the accidental death of the oldest son.

thorold: Germany, 1930s, perfect title for this theme!

cindydavid4: Really that is a perfect tite for this theme!

nrmay: Afghanistan. 1st of 4 in the series.

thorold: You don’t have to approve, but it is the book that gave millions of westerners an idea of what it might be like to be a child in India

LolaWalser: Gorky's masterpiece, lyrical and brutal, with a grandmother as magnificent and important as Proust's.

LolaWalser: Fantastic series of graphic novels about a Franco-Arab boy's childhood between Libya, Syria and France.

merrystar: Fictionalized autobiography of an American child living in China

kidzdoc: A group of reform school boys are forced to fend for themselves after their community is evacuated due to a plague

spiralsheep: Novel about a privileged childhood in Burundi disrupted by civil war.

markon: First in a children's series written by Native American about Native Americans.

karenb: A young Maori girl in Aoteroa New Zealand. (The movie was based on this book.)

nrmay: children in Japanese-occupied Korea, WWII era.

merrystar: Autobiography of the author's childhood in British-ruled India

cindydavid4: Her Far Pavillions is one of my all time fav books and itself a book that could be included in the theme. This title looks very interestijg and i want to read it

spiralsheep: Mythic children's fantasy. Mexican author and illustrator.

Dilara86: Children growing up in an Angolan shanty town

spiralsheep: Children's retelling of a traditional Greenlandic Inuit story.

spiralsheep: Children's story by Nicaraguan author. Translated into several languages.

Dilara86: Mongolian childhood

nrmay: Japanese family flees Korea at the end of WWII.

spiralsheep: Children's story by the first woman Pacific Islander to publish a book. Frisbie also wrote the autobiographical novel Frisbees of the South Seas.

nrmay: Hindu child living during the 1947 partition of India. Newbery Honor Book.

spiralsheep: Children's book set in what is now the Central African Republic. I haven't read it but it's reputedly a classic.

nrmay: Arranged-marriage in India. National Book Award winner. YA

spiralsheep: Childhood in El Salvador.

kidzdoc: semi-autographical account of a childhood in Algeria

kidzdoc: A group of brothers in Nigeria disobey their father's instructions and fish in a dangerous section of their town's river

nrmay: gay teenage girls in Iran. YA

spiphany: Teenage Russian immigrant in Germany; several other books by the author feature teenage protagonists, e.g. "Just Call Me Superhero".

nrmay: young boy in war-torn Cambodia.

nrmay: India. YA

LolaWalser: American childhoods. African American boys in Alabama who were sent to juvenile institutions, often for little reason, and subject to abuse.

spiralsheep: Novel about growing up in Antigua.

kidzdoc: A 9 yo Mauritian boy of Indian emigrants befriends another boy of his age, who is also an emigrant from another, very troubled, background.

LolaWalser: Abdeslam, a Moroccan boy of 11 and a runaway narrates his adventures. The story was shaped by Paul Bowles, who "discovered" Mrabet.

LolaWalser: An unusual work within the opus of the Caribbean (Trinidad) Marxist historian C. L. R. James.

nrmay: Africa. Newbery Honor Book. YA

Dilara86: Tuvan-Mongolian childhood

nrmay: Teens fleeing Guatemala. YA

nrmay: Teenage girl in Nigeria.

nrmay: children in Sudan.

nrmay: Nepali girl sold into sexual slavery in India. YA

spiralsheep: Children's book. I've never read this but am assured by RG members LW and AM that it's good.

nrmay: Jewish children in German-occupied France, WWII. And others by Matas.

nrmay: Lithuanian family sent to Siberian labor camp, WWII. YA

nrmay: 12-year-old boy in Bolivia. Sequel is [Sacred Leaf]

nrmay: young girl in Pakistan; 1st in a series. YA

nrmay: Refugee Afghan girl in Pakistan. YA

nrmay: Ireland during the Potato Famine, 1845. 2 more in the series.