Children’s Day, Book Day: Embracing Cultures, Community, and Books through Día

Authors

  • Beatriz Pascual Wallace

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.13n3.16

Abstract

Children’s Day, Book Day. El día de los niños/El día de los libros. Día for short. Día as an acronym for Diversity in Action. By either name, this commitment to and celebration of multicultural and multilingual literacy is a creative opportunity for libraries to help children build the awareness they need to get along in our increasingly global and diverse world. We will look at ways several libraries are successfully implementing this literacy initiative, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary next year.

Author Biography

Beatriz Pascual Wallace

Beatriz Pascual Wallace is a Children’s Librarian with Seattle (WA) Public Library and a former chair of REFORMA’s Mora Award committee.

References

“Día Children’s Day, Book Day/El día de los niños, El día de los libros,” Pat Mora, accessed May 20, 2015, http://www.patmora.com/whats-dia/.

Beatriz Pascual Wallace, “El día de los niños, El día de los libros: A Brief History,” accessed May 20, 2015, http://www.reforma.org/dia.

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Published

2015-08-31

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2015): Fall

Section

Features

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