WOW Stories

WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom is a regular on-line publication of WOW containing vignettes written by classroom educators about children’s experiences reading and responding to literature. If you would like to submit to WOW Stories, please see our current call and guidelines.

Editor

Janine Schall, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX

Editorial Review Board

Mary Starrs Armstrong, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
Deanna Day, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
Charlene Klassen Endrizzi, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Jeanne Fain, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Lauren Freedman, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Sandy Kaser, Tucson Unified School District, Tucson, AZ
Julia López-Robertson, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Judi Moreillon, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Yuriko C. Wellington, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI

Volume I — Issues from Intercultural Project at Van Horne Elementary School
Volume I, Issue 1 – Developing Intercultural Understandings Through International Children’s Literature
Volume I, Issue 2 – Opening the World through Literature
Volume 1, Issue 3 – Reading Critically through Global Inquiry

Volume II and III – Peer-Reviewed Issues of WOW Stories
Volume II, Issue 1 – Creating Connections with Latino Texts
Volume II, Issue 2 – Literature as a Means to Facilitate Personal Response and Inquiry

Our Current Issue
Volume III, Issue 1 – Exploring the Diversity that Surrounds Us

  • News

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    Visiting Author: Rosemary Wells

    On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
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    2011 Tucson Festival of Books

    The list of visiting children’s authors for the 2011Tucson Festival of Books is nearing completion. Make your plans to attend the festival on March 11th and 12th. Some of the authors already committed are David Wiesner, Rafael Lopez, Thacher Hurd, E. B. Lewis, Mike Lupica, Margaret Read McDonald, and Lauren Myracle. For more on the book festival . . .

    Keep an eye on the Calendar for more WOW events!

    New format for WOW Stories

    Submit your proposal to share stories from your literacy community. See our call and guidelines for more information.