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October 2019
WOW Book Fiesta: CREATE Story Journey Around the World
Join CREATE for hands-on activities from our Global Story Boxes featuring American Indians from the Southwest, Caribbean Islands, China, East Africa, France, India, Mexican American, Mexico, South Korea, Southwest Sonoran Desert, & West Africa. Free professional development is also available for teachers. Snacks will be provided! Free parking is available at the surface parking lot north of the intersection of First and Vine. Paid parking is available at the Second St. Garage next door to the College of Education. Located…
Find out more »November 2019
WOW Book Fiesta: Stevie Lewis and Moon
We can't wait for our visit with Stevie Lewis, illustrator of Moon! Earth's Best Friend! Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock—she's Earth's rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her friend (literally: she's always facing Earth with the same side!). These two will stick together forever. Stevie will share her techniques for illustrating books on the sun and on the earth, and we will create our own collages. Enjoy light…
Find out more »January 2020
WOW Book Fiesta with Dianne White
WHO EATS ORANGE? A bunny? A chicken? Maybe you? This lively journey around the world explores the rainbow of colorful foods eaten by animals, from the familiar to the exotic. In this workshop, author Dianne White will lead us in singing and mixing up an "orange stew," making masks, writing poems or stories from the point of view of a favorite animal, and creating a rainbow of colorful foods. Enjoy light refreshments, listen to read alouds and explore Dianne's books. The University…
Find out more »February 2020
WOW Book Fiesta with Lori Alexander
Meet Sibert Honor Book author Lori Alexander and explore what's All In a Drop! Feed your curiosity and explore the world up close. Join us for science centers around magnifying glasses and microscopes. We will go on a nature scavenger hunt, make microbe models and look at everyday objects up close--very close! Antony van Leeuwenhoek never took a science class. He didn't speak Latin like all the other scientist of the day. Yet, through his curiosity and perseverance, he engineered…
Find out more »September 2020
Imagination Friday with Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg
Watch (or re-watch) Imagination Friday with Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg below! Meet the author and illustrator of AstroNuts, a new series by Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg. This laugh-out-loud series with jet-propelled zaniness also has a serious side with facts about climate change and the environment. This high-energy book contains full-color collages and follows the AstroNuts on a new mission to find a planet fit for human life after we have finally made the Earth unlivable. Jon and Steven…
Find out more »Imagination Friday with Rashin Kheiriyeh
Watch (or re-watch) Imagination Friday with Rashin Kheiriyeh below! Join WOW and the Tucson Festival of Books to meet Rashin Kheiriyeh, author/illustrator of a new picturebook, Bahar the Lucky. Bahar is determined to help her family earn more money than what she makes selling rugs at the local bazaar. So, she decides to become a fortune teller. After some lucky "accidents" telling correct fortunes, the king has summoned her to the palace to be his fortune teller. At this event,…
Find out more »October 2020
Imagination Friday with David Bowles and Charlene Bowles
Join us for an amazing adventure! At this event, David and Charlene will talk about their graphic novel, Rise of the Halfling King. This middle grade graphic novel follows the adventures of a magical boy from Maya mythology and is the first of a series based on ancient Mesoamerican myths and legends. After their presentation, Davide and Charlene will invite children to complete an activity. Imagination Fridays participants can order signed copies of the books featured at https://shop.uabookstore.arizona.edu/main/wildcats/TFOB/Children. Host: Kathy…
Find out more »Imagination Friday with Adam Rex
How do you get gum out of your hair – a pair of scissors? Butter? The cat? Call your aunt – she'll know what to do. She doesn't? Try the fire department! In this book, the best intentions lead to some of the worst (and funniest) ideas! With each page turn, this situation – relatable to any family – grows stickier and more desperate. Discover the solution to this sticky situation! At this event, Tucson's Adam Rex will talk about…
Find out more »Imagination Friday with Christina Soontornvat
Join Christina in this exciting presentation of her book All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Boys Tai Soccer Team. Combining material from community interviews with in-depth science content and details about the region's culture and religion, All Thirteen paints two scenes of unflagging perseverance: Aboveground, a global rescue team of military personnel, engineers, medics, cave divers, and other volunteers races to find the trapped boys. Almost half a mile below, a similarly heroic effort is taking place in…
Find out more »Imagination Friday with Sherri Duskey Rinker
Join your favorite Construction Site crew in their next, new adventure! At this event Sherri will present Construction Site Mission: Demolition!, then invite children to participate in an activity. Download the Construction Site Mission: Demolition Activity Kit from Chronicle Books for this event. Imagination Fridays participants can order signed copies of the books featured at https://shop.uabookstore.arizona.edu/main/wildcats/TFOB/Children. Host: Kathy Short, Professor of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies and Director of WOW. Panelists: Sherri Duskey Rinker Co-Sponsor: Tucson Festival of Books Sherri…
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