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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

Coming Home a Hopi Resistance Story

The Importance of Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story

Jose Pimienta

Invest In Youth as Readers 2025 Final Update - We Did It!

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Promoting Global Literacy with Manga Inside and Outside the Classroom

WOW Currents

Resilient Children in International Literature

Connecting Text and Illustrations

Learning to Read the Written and the Pictorial

Reading Multimodally

Resources on the Life and Work of Francisco Jiménez

WOW Currents

Part 4 – His words to you: quotes from Francisco Jimenez

Part 3 – Students' Correspondence with Francisco Jimenez

Part 2 – Reading the words of Francisco Jimenez

WOW Currents

Part 1 – Discovering the words of Francisco Jiménez

Visual Symbolism as Meaning-Making

Conveying Meaning through Visual Elements

Cultural Issues in Reviewing Illustration