"Open a Book... Open a Door... Open your Mind... to the World" is an annual celebration of International Children’s and Young Adult Literature sponsored by the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium.
This 8th annual all-day celebration will be on Saturday, November 21, featuring three award-winning authors Sylviane Diouf, Rachna Gilmore and James Rumford, and a scholar of Russian History, Kelly Herold.
The opening speaker, Megan Schliesman, is a librarian at the UW's Cooperative Children's Book Center. Sixy-five participants from Wisconsin and Illinois will attend this year's event.
Held in celebration of International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, the aim of this workshop — designed for teachers, school and public librarians, students and faculty of education and library science — is to encourage the internationalization of school curriculum by incorporating literature about cultures from around the world that depicts unbiased and educated information.
Diouf, Gilmore, and Rumford were also invited by First Lady Jessica Doyle to participate in a "Reading Day." School children from Albany, Cambridge, Lodi and Madison will convene at the Governor's Mansion on Friday for a one-on-one reading with the author whose book was chosen by the First Lady for her Read on Wisconsin Initiative.
For more information contact Rachel Weiss at (608) 262-9224 or rweiss@southasia.wisc.edu