Kathy Short | Worlds of Words Center for Global Literacies and Literatures (University of Arizona)

Kathy Short

Two Indigenous people pass a plate for Frybraed between each other as others cather down a dirt road to share food.

Grow Your Book Stack at the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books

2025 Trends in K-12 Global Literature

Two children look up in delight as an android projects an image of the cosmos from its chest.

WOW Recommends: Oasis

A teen boy looks back at the viewer. His body is cut out to show the flag of the United States.

Come to the Tucson Festival of Books on March 15-16, 2025

Eliette (7th grade) considers an illustration from the book Sumo Libre.

Cepeda Stories: Everyone Has a Story to Tell

WOW Recommends: The Rock in My Throat

2024 Trends in Global Literature: Food as the Language of Love

Girl in frilly top regards the reader from a field of red flowers

2024 Trends in K-12 Global Literature

Concept art for Gibberish on a table easel displayed with a final copy of the book

Worlds of Words Center Expands Holdings of Original Picturebook Illustrations

Two middle school boys present a picturebook to a crowd

WOW Reads: Bonus - Predicting the 2024 Caldecott Award

Celebrating New Authors and Illustrators at the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books

Experience the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books

Worlds of Words Center Launches First Crowdfund Effort to Bring Global Stories to Life

A young girl paits a vibrant blue and green bird flying away as she smiles at a young boy, playing the guitar. A variety of colorful birds surround them.

2023 Trends in Global Literature: Climate Change and the Environment

A silhouette of the African continent surrounded by people, cities, insects and animals all found within in.

2023 Trends in Global Literature: Books Set in African Countries

A young girl and her little brother are surrounded by a shite dragon. A faceless dryad with glowing eyes looks at the viewer above them.

2023 Trends in Global Youth Literature

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