Please join us on Saturday, May 9 at 10:00 AM for story time and a fantastical drawing activity with special guest, Ruth Chan, to celebrate Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, Xiong Liang’s incredible new book. This event is ideal for ages 6-12. ✨RSVP at link in bio.✨
In this lush, dense fantasy, the first in a series of seven books, Little Yu discovers an enchanted forest and embarks on a daring adventure. With the dreamlike strangeness of Lewis Carroll and the wild otherworldliness of Hayao Miyazaki, Little Yu introduces us to a world as strange and beautiful as any in children’s literature. A classic fantasy that seems to have always existed.
The first in a series of seven, Xiong Liang’s Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, introduces us to a daring young girl named Little Yu. When Little Yu happens upon an enchanted forest on her last day in the countryside, it’s the towering trees and mystical lichen that beckon her inside. 🍃
“She enters the wilderness with curiosity, not fear, and soon befriends the unique forest dwellers guarding their home. Embarking on a fantastical journey that recalls elements of Lewis Carroll and Hayao Miyazaki, Little Yu must rely on instinct—and help from her mystical new friends—to overcome obstacles and return home.” —Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
Out from Archipelago’s children’s book imprint @elsewhere.editions this spring!
Just in from the printer: Xiong Liang’s Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, the first book in his seven-book series, Little Yu & the Treelings. Translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, readers of all ages will be moved by Little Yu’s unshakable bravery and precocious discernment. Out on April 7th, 2026 and available for pre-order on our website now!
Little Yu and the Treelings is the type of book that adults get nostalgic over, and children stay up to read. Set in a fantastical, luscious world, it’s an adventure that only Xiong Liang’s storytelling and intoxicating ink paintings can tell. Around every corner is a surprise, and we can’t help but follow Little Yu as she approaches each with utmost courage, curiosity and empathy. —Ruth Chan
Xiong has created a hauntingly beautiful journey, richly layered with characters, and myth. Children and adults alike will find themselves not wanting to leave this mystical hidden paradise. —Gracey Zhang
Calling all Ponti fans! Alyson Waters and Margot Kerlidou have brought another of his spectacular picture books to English.
The River is a book that delights in language, one that should be whisked to a quiet corner, letting figetpeas and feverlilies wash over you. It’s also a book that knows gender is fluid—in these floating villages, one can live a girl-life, a boy-life, or something in between. All the creatures know what truly matters: to feel the wind in one’s braid, a bundle of healiaherbs snug in a satchel, a friend adrift by one’s side.
The River is out March 24th from Archipelago’s children’s imprint @elsewhere.editions !
We hope the holidays bring you cozy armchairs, winter flurries, and lots of tea! Thank you all for being a part of Elsewhere’s vibrant community.
Pictured:
Tina Oziewicz’s What Feelings do When No One’s Looking, illustrated by Aleksandra Zajac and translated by Jennifer Croft (Poland)
Taras Prokhasko & Marjana Prokhasko’s Who Will Make the Snow?, translated by Boris Dralyuk & Jennifer Croft (Ukraine)
Hadi Mohammadi’s Amu Nowruz and his Violets, illustrated by Nooshin Safakhoo and translated by Sara Khalili (Iran)
Happy pub day to Xiong Liang’s Take a Walk With the Wind, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, from our children’s books imprint @elsewhere.editions
In this beautifully illustrated picture book, Xiong brings a puff of wind to life that knocks off the cap of a small treeling, taking him on a wild adventure through China’s ancient mountain forests. By drawing inspiration from classical Chinese poems, folk art, and stories, the universe Xiong creates within his work perfectly captures a childlike imagination (and penchant for mischief).
“Xiong takes inspiration from Guo Zhong Chan’s Memories of Xiang Zhou to spin this evocative, nature-centered story about a mythical miniature being . . . Active verbs describe the swirling chaos provoked by every encounter, while delicate paintings depict cranes getting twisted up, monkeys clinging to a tree, and more . . . Meditative depictions of the fanciful relationship cast an atmospheric spell.” -Publishers Weekly
You can now order Take a Walk With the Wind on the Elsewhere or Archipelago sites!
We’ve got a vibrant September lined up at Archipelago!
⭐️September 15th, 6:30pm, at Sullaluna Books (41 Carmine St, NYC): Xiong Liang will present Take A Walk With the Wind, which Elsewhere Editions will publish in a translation by Chloe Garcia Roberts on September 30th. He’ll be joined by Jia Sung, with Roxanne Feldman interpreting between Chinese and English.
⭐️September 16th, 3pm, at the Chatham Square Library (33 E Broadway, NYC): A storytime and collaging activity with Xiong Liang! For children and adults alike.
⭐️September 17th, 9pm, at Cafe Gitane (70 Hudson Ave, Brooklyn): Have you secured your tickets to our annual fete afterparty? Join us for wine, South Indian fare, and some special raffle prizes.
⭐️September 21st, 10am - 6pm(Borough Hall, Brooklyn): Find us at Brooklyn Book Fest’s Literary Marketplace—we’ll be at both 432 selling books at a discount.
⭐️September 23rd, 6:30pm, at Flatbush Library (22 Linden Blvd, Brooklyn): Emmelie Prophète and Jessica Rankin discuss Prophète’s Cècè, which Archipelago will publish in a translation by Aidan Rooney on September 23rd. Food and refreshments will be provided by BunNan BK.
⭐️September 24th, 7pm, at Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St): Emmelie Prophète and Aidan Rooney discuss Cècè, with Enzo Silon Surin.
Visit our website for RSVP details.
Correction: The Sunset Park Library event has been changed to a private event in a local school. All those hoping to attend a reading and craft with Xiong should report to the 3pm Chatham Square Library event on September 16th. Thank you!
Finished copies for Xiong Liang’s Take a Walk With the Wind have landed at our office 🍃
Hannah DeCamp of @avidbookshop writes, “This magical adventure is equal parts zany and beautiful, following a tiny Treeling (akin to a gnome) who is awoken and ushered outside to roam by the impatient wind... Xiong’s soft silk paintings are joyfully full of movement and spirit, tumbling across the page with the story.”
We’ll publish Xiong’s picture book, in Chloe Garcia Roberts translation, on September 30th! You can pre-order your copy on our Elsewhere or Archipelago site.
Today Elsewhere publishes Marika Maijala’s A Magician’s Flower, translated by Mia Spangenberg. This vibrant picture book follows Willow and her poet-friend Aspen in a quest to help a tiny seedling grow. In their world, everything is buzzing—flowers peer from pleated petals, cats pace sunlit sills, and Eulalia (the friends’ faithful pet chicken) struts and clucks most regally. As with her latest picture book with us, Rosie Runs, Marika leads with her heart, attending to the tiniest voices and letting life’s mysteries bloom.
You can now order A Magician’s Flower our the Elsewhere or Archipelago site!
What a joy to see Mafalda in the pages of the latest New Yorker! Daniel Alarcón beautifully traces Mafalda’s bighearted politics that speak directly to crises we face today.
“She was a little girl who read the newspaper and had opinions on current events. She cornered her parents with uncomfortable, often bewildering questions, and approached life with bemusement, pondering the mediocrity of the adults crafting the world she would inherit, people who, for the most part, disappointed her but whom she was still generous enough to love."
Order your very own Mafalda from our Elsewhere or Archipelago site ♥️
Place your bids before 9pm tonight to help us continue publishing curious and inspired picture books from all over the world! Inês Viegas Oliveira’s “The Birds”
Oil, watercolor, graphite, dry pastel, 4.9 x 7.5 in
Inês Viegas Oliveira is a Portuguese children’s book illustrator whose drawings ripple out from the page. Dissolving the lines between science and art, Oliveira depicts bodies, birds, and butterflies that pulse with immediacy. With “The Birds,” Oliveira makes day and night porous as she shifts between a velvety black and green. Pulled through time, we glimpse a flock of birds in varying states of presence. Some are ghostly, disintegrating; some outlined in an enlivening, electric blue. The image that results is a composite one; we’re lost between absence and presence, stillness and buoyancy, trapped with our wings fluttering.
