Sophie Heywood (she/her)
@sophieheywood.bsky.social
Associate Professor in French at Uni of Reading (UK) Co-Director: Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing: @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social Children's Publishing in Cold War France: https://tinyurl.com/27x5c6kf Children's 68: https://children68.hypotheses.org/
“While many children in the UK live their lives using more than one language, this has rarely been acknowledged in the novels that are published.” Latest BtSG column @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/beyo...
Beyond the Secret Garden: Multilingual Children’s Literature – Books For Keeps
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From literary fiction to children’s books, Latin American entrepreneurs are working to make offerings for Spanish-language readers more varied and visible in the U.S.
Growing Business Get Creative to Bring Spanish Books Stateside
Gaby Adamo of Líneas del Sur and Adriana Roca of Pichoncito are respectively working to bring literary fiction and children’s books in Spanish to readers in the U.S. amid a fraught political moment.
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The latest issue of 'Mémoires du livre/ Studies in Book Culture' is out, and it looks brilliant: www.erudit.org/fr/revues/me...
Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, numéro 2, automne 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
Consultez le sommaire de ce numéro de la revue Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture sur la plateforme Érudit. Discipline : Études littéraires, Histoire.
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REPOP: la retraduction en régime populaire: contraintes et pratiques magasindesenfants.hypotheses.org/17264
REPOP: la retraduction en régime populaire: contraintes et pratiques
Nous relayons cet appel à communications qui peut tout à fait concerner la littérature pour la jeunesse. Colloque international 28-29 mai, Université Paris Nanterre, salle de séminaire 2, bâtiment Max...
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Call for papers for CBCP's 2026 conference, in collaboration with the British Academy of Management. The conference theme is "People in Publishing: Diversity, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures". To be held by the University of Reading on 29 June 2026. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CfP: People in Publishing: Diversity, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
People in Publishing: Diversity, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures Monday 29th June 2026 University of Reading, UK Call for Participation This symposium aims to critically examine the structural and...
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Join us Thurs 11 Dec 5pm UK time for Centre for Book Cultures x Outside on World webinar series on translation for children: The Aarhus Uni team 'PUBLISH' will talk on: 'Publishing Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations' research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CBCP x OIW Webinar: Publishing Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
CBCP x OIW webinar ‘Explorations in Translation for Children’ is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (University of Reading) in partnership with Outside in...R...
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The recording of the latest in the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation: ‘Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101’ is now available on the CBCP Youtube channel: youtu.be/cQcvMFTDGIU?... #worldkidlit #translation
The new #ChildrensBookerPrize will included translated works! Here are literature researchers @sophieheywood.bsky.social and Emma Page's 5 recommendations for excellent translated books to get kids passionate about reading! @thebookerprizes.com 🔗 rdg.ac/4qQHv1M
The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited
Translations will expand the reading worlds of children.
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The new Children's Booker Prize is brilliant for kidlit - did you know that even more brilliantly, translations are included? This is a big step towards recognising the contribution translation makes to UK children’s literature. Read my article with Emma Page here 👇 tinyurl.com/52uva3mr
The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited
Translations will expand the reading worlds of children.
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We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams
CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams, Thu 23 Oct 2025 - 'Explorations in Translation for Children' is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cult...
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The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing's autumn events schedule is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing autumn events is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us1 research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CP: upcoming issue about Self-Translation in Children's and Young Adult Books, by editors Mirella Piacentini, Roberta Pederzoli and Fabio Regattin. Submit proposals (French/English) to strenae@afreloce.fr by Dec 1, 2025. journals.openedition.org/strenae/11837
SELF-TRANSLATION IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Deadline for abstract submission : December 1, 2025 As a practice that has always existed and has long been acknowledged, self-translation has drawn attention at least since the second half of the ...
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Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
CBCP will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd Sept 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon, but in the meantime, please save the date. More info here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd September 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon,...Read...
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Memorias del Exilio: Los Niños Vascos del 37 is a graphic novel by Begoña Garrido, PhD alumna. It stems from her doctoral fieldwork and draws on testimonies about the 1937 mass evacuation of Basque children. The book and related exhibition materials are currently on display in the Library foyer.
It’s cover reveal time! Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social
Support WNDB's newest round of bookish care packages, which focus on showing queer and trans youth that their stories are magic — and that #MagicStoriesAreForEveryone! 🏳️⚧️ bit.ly/MagicCarePack...
5e épisode de ma lecture du formidable livre de Sophie Heywood: elle nous fait entrer dans la fabrique des romans jeunesse Hachette pendant la guerre froide! #LitteratureJeunesse Fabriquer des livres pour enfants chez Hachette album50.hypotheses.org/9800
Fabriquer des livres pour enfants chez Hachette
Ce billet fait partie d’une série dans laquelle je propose un long compte rendu de l’ouvrage de Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Contro...
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3e épisode: où Sophie Heywood nous parle de l'affaire de la disparition du journal Tarzan. L’affaire “Tarzan” album50.hypotheses.org/9784 #LitteratureJeunesse
L’affaire “Tarzan”
Ce billet fait partie d’une série dans laquelle je propose un long compte rendu de l’ouvrage de Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Contro...
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Episode 2: Sophie Heywood nous dit tout ce qu'on voulait savoir sur la loi de 49 et les conditions dans lesquelles elle est votée. On connaissait cette loi depuis les travaux des historiens de la BD (Th. Crépin), mais ici c'est vu sous le filtre de l'édition jeunesse! album50.hypotheses.org/9779
La loi de 49 sur les publications destinées à l’enfance
Ce billet fait partie d’une série dans laquelle je propose un long compte rendu de l’ouvrage de Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Contro...
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Congratulations @buxiduan.bsky.social!
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading@cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social · last yr.We are excited to announce that our CBCP Visiting Research Fellow, Buxi Duan, received an honourable mention in the Society of Textual Scholarship’s 2025 Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for his scholarly edition of D. H. Lawrence’s short story, published last year. textualsociety.org/sts-prizes-a...
Weds 18 June, 5.15pm GMT join us for the book launch of this powerful graphic novel on mass evacuation of Basque children during the Spanish civil war, by Begoña Garrido & Oskar Gorroño, from Begoña's PhD in Spanish at the @unirdg-phd.bsky.social To join online: tinyurl.com/mvrbsu88
The first review (in French!) of my book is now live... and I'm super proud as it's by Cécile Boulaire, whose pathbreaking book on Little Golden Books in France in the Cold War (see it here: pufr-editions.fr/produit/les-...) served as such an inspiration for my own work 👇
Cécile Boulaire@cecileboulaire.bsky.social · last yr.Lecture du moment: l'excellent essai de Sophie Heywood sur Hachette et les livres pour la jeunesse en temps de guerre froide album50.hypotheses.org/9752 #LitteratureJeunesse #BookHistory
We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃
Jenny Crane@jennycrane.bsky.social · last yr.Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing. Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces. 12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians
This Sunday May 11, 8pm GMT/ 3pm EST Julie Fette and I are in conversation on French Presse to discuss our new books offering transatlantic perspectives on the development of literature, book cultures and publishing for the young in contemporary France. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/frenchpres...
Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.
I’ll be in conversation with the superb Kandace Chimbiri at New Beacon Books on May 14th, talking about Beyond the Secret Garden (coauthored with @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social ) & the representation of Black people in British children’s books. Register www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...
