Last Chance: Apply for Our Storytelling Mini-Course with the Academy for Teachers!
Posted on February 03, 2025
Beyond "Story Mountain": Global Approaches to Inspire New Writing
Helping Students Deal with Disasters
Posted on January 10, 2025
This weekend marks fifteen years since the destructive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. In remembrance of the tragedy, we're rereading a reflection from Haitian author Lyonel Trouillot, who survived the quake. The anniversary also coincides with devastating forest fires in the United States and ongoing cleanups from many other recent natural disasters across the world. Reading global literature responding to past disasters may help students living through current ones feel less alone as they process these events. This blog post from 2024 offers some trauma-informed strategies for reading and teaching the literature. —Eds.
Off-Campus: Bringing Diverse Lit to Young Readers with Promised Protagonists
Posted on December 16, 2024
In the second installment of our interview series "Off-Campus," WWB's Maggie Vlietstra spoke to Katie Lin, high school student and founder of the youth-led organization Promised Protagonists, which aims to help kids feel reflected in the literature they read. Katie spoke to us about connecting to heritage through books, underrepresented countries in middle-grade lit, and what she’s reading right now.
10 Stories and Poems for Reading Africa Week
Posted on December 02, 2024
During the first week of December, WWB Campus is #ReadingAfrica! Started by indie publisher Catalyst Press in 2017, Reading Africa Week “bring[s] attention to writers who are doing diverse and genre-spanning work from every corner of the African continent.” It’s a great opportunity to introduce students to literature from a part of the world that is often overlooked on classroom curricula. Here are 10 works of literature from Africa that cover a range of countries, languages, and genres to start you on your reading journey:
A Tour of Latin American Kid Lit in 15 Translations
Posted on November 17, 2024
Looking for Latin American reading beyond the usual favorites? A panel of children's translators has identified fifteen great new books, spanning the Caribbean and Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and more: