Janelle Mathis | Worlds of Words: Center for Global Literacies and Literatures (University of Arizona)

Janelle Mathis

Three people walk through a snowy Arctic landscape to enter a metal building.

WOW Recommends: Just in Case

A misty cemetery with a full moon in the background.

WOW Recommends: Spirit Sleuths, How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes

A lion stands next to a flower under the sun, both of which look like the lion.

WOW Dozen: Visual Storytelling with a “Pop” of Yellow

the girl who heard the music

WOW Recommends: The Girl Who Heard The Music

Children playing homemade instruments

WOW Dozen: Picturebook Biographies of Musicians

To young people race downhill on a moped

Bookbird as a Resource for Contemporary Themes and Issues in Literature

Looking through cage wires at a zoo enclosure that includes a climbing aparatus and a slide

Bookbird as Resource: Exploring the Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominees

A young girl with braids holds a basket full of fruit on her head. She stands in front of a field of pink flowers, and two mountains in the background frame the cover.

WOW Recommends: Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua

Chapter Books on the Loss of a Family Member

Children's Picturebooks on Social-Emotional Challenges

Cover of All Because You Matter depicting a young black boy looking out to the viewer with colorful leaf cutouts in the background.

Picturebooks That Focus on Black Children and Their Families

Picturebooks Created by Authors and Illustrators Outside the USA

Cover of Stormy features a small, curly-haired dog and his ball created in soft hues with pencil and watercolor

WOW Recommends: Stormy

Timbaland cover features an African American child with a cupped hand to his ear, listening to the city generally and specifically to the subtitle text Nighttime Symhony curving into his ear.

Cognitive Relationships between Music and Language

Mama Mable cover is done in collage-style with lots of people playing instruments and dancing around Mama Mable

Books Provide a Glimpse of History through Music

Freedom Soup cover shows a Haitain grandmother in a head scarf dancing in kitchen with child in braids.

Literary Insights to Social, Traditional and Cultural Aspects of Music

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