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Jose Pimienta's books provide a range of readers multiple ways to connect. In this profile, they reflect on these connections, their approach to life & work, & their favorite ways to engage with readers. wowlit.org/blog/2025/12...
Author's Corner: Jose Pimienta • Worlds of Words
This author's corner explores the work of Jose Pimienta, an author/illustrator who visited Tucson to meet with the Middle School Reading Ambassadors.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Jose Pimienta's books provide a range of readers multiple ways to connect. In this profile, they reflect on these connections, their approach to life & work, & their favorite ways to engage with readers. wowlit.org/blog/2025/12...
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‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
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Meaningful inclusion in play & conversation among children of all abilities starts with every day activities. These 12 picturebooks & novels provide perspectives on & approaches to invitations between children with disabilities & their typical peers.
#Books #EduSky
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#Books #EduSky
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WOW Dozen: Engaging with People of All Abilities • Worlds of Words
This WOW Dozen presents twelve titles that offer examples, and sometimes instruction, on initiating conversation and play between people of all abilities.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Meaningful inclusion in play & conversation among children of all abilities starts with every day activities. These 12 picturebooks & novels provide perspectives on & approaches to invitations between children with disabilities & their typical peers.
#Books #EduSky
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#Books #EduSky
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If you think Spirited Away inspires cool costumes, consider its recently-translated inspiration, The Village Beyond the Mist. Any one of its wise and caring characters serves as inspiration. Read more in this month's WOW Recommends by @reblnation.bsky.social. #MGLit
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WOW Recommends: The Village Beyond the Mist • Worlds of Words
This month, Rebecca recommends the inspiration for Studio Ghibil's Spirited Away: The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you think Spirited Away inspires cool costumes, consider its recently-translated inspiration, The Village Beyond the Mist. Any one of its wise and caring characters serves as inspiration. Read more in this month's WOW Recommends by @reblnation.bsky.social. #MGLit
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Last year, the WOW Reading Ambassadors distributed 250 books, met 7 authors & recorded 10 podcast episodes. Don't ask how many bagels we ate! Checkout their interactive graphic for how we fund this free program for middle & high school students.
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Crowd Funding - WOW Reading Ambassadors '25
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October 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Last year, the WOW Reading Ambassadors distributed 250 books, met 7 authors & recorded 10 podcast episodes. Don't ask how many bagels we ate! Checkout their interactive graphic for how we fund this free program for middle & high school students.
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These 12 #picturebooks show children the ways they can be empathetic towards their peers and encourage kinder, more involved communities. The stories show people working towards empathy through policy, societal change and inclusion.
#WOWDozen #booksky
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#WOWDozen #booksky
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WOW Dozen: Picturebooks to Encourage Empathy and Helping • Worlds of Words
August's WOW Dozen brings together a dozen picturebooks on empathy, showing how children can help others and encouraging helping in communities.
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August 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
These 12 #picturebooks show children the ways they can be empathetic towards their peers and encourage kinder, more involved communities. The stories show people working towards empathy through policy, societal change and inclusion.
#WOWDozen #booksky
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#WOWDozen #booksky
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In a special combined group of middle & high school readers, the Reading Ambassadors came together where story worlds collide - in this strange case: DC Comics, Robert Lewis Stevenson & @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
WOW Reads: S3, E7 - RAP Reads The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley by Melissa Marr
Podcast Episode · WOW Reads · 06/18/2025 · 24m
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June 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In a special combined group of middle & high school readers, the Reading Ambassadors came together where story worlds collide - in this strange case: DC Comics, Robert Lewis Stevenson & @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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The award-winning @andrealrogers.bsky.social discusses art, family & futurism in an #AuthorsCorner that speaks to educators. #EduSky #ChoochHelped #TheArtThieves
Author's Corner: Andrea Rogers • Worlds of Words
In this installment of Author's Corner, Andrea L Rogers discusses her latest books and the parts of her life and philosophy that she adds to her work.
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March 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The award-winning @andrealrogers.bsky.social discusses art, family & futurism in an #AuthorsCorner that speaks to educators. #EduSky #ChoochHelped #TheArtThieves
Yours truly!
Learn more about the Worlds of Words Center Reading Ambassador program, which offers middle and high school students a free college experience that focuses on books written for their age group, on the ALSC blog! #kidlit #yalist #libraries
Reading Ambassadors: A Model for Youth Programming In a University Collection
Learn how the Reading Ambassador program Reading Ambassador program furthers the mission of expanding perspectives through literature
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March 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Yours truly!
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You can either support the United States of America and our democracy, or you can support trump.
You cannot do both.
You cannot do both.
February 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You can either support the United States of America and our democracy, or you can support trump.
You cannot do both.
You cannot do both.
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Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
February 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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“...we all want what’s best for kids, and we all worry that our kids will hear things that we don’t agree with. But the answer isn’t censorship — the answer’s connection. We have to have conversations with our children.” — Author Elisa Stone Leahy
#UniteAgainstBookBans
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#UniteAgainstBookBans
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Literacy advocates in Ohio defend difficult texts as they mark Toni Morrison Day
Ohio lawmakers and literacy advocates used the birthday of one of America’s most frequently banned authors to defend difficult texts.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“...we all want what’s best for kids, and we all worry that our kids will hear things that we don’t agree with. But the answer isn’t censorship — the answer’s connection. We have to have conversations with our children.” — Author Elisa Stone Leahy
#UniteAgainstBookBans
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#UniteAgainstBookBans
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Step 1: Fire FAA workers.
Step 2: 5 plane crashes occur culminating in 86 deaths.
Step 3: Hand new air travel contract to Musk/SpaceX.
Step 4: Pretend it’s about ‘safety.’
Step 2: 5 plane crashes occur culminating in 86 deaths.
Step 3: Hand new air travel contract to Musk/SpaceX.
Step 4: Pretend it’s about ‘safety.’
February 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Step 1: Fire FAA workers.
Step 2: 5 plane crashes occur culminating in 86 deaths.
Step 3: Hand new air travel contract to Musk/SpaceX.
Step 4: Pretend it’s about ‘safety.’
Step 2: 5 plane crashes occur culminating in 86 deaths.
Step 3: Hand new air travel contract to Musk/SpaceX.
Step 4: Pretend it’s about ‘safety.’
If airlines continue with busy flight schedules in light of the diminished FAA capacity, they put their staff, passengers & cargo at risk.
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
February 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If airlines continue with busy flight schedules in light of the diminished FAA capacity, they put their staff, passengers & cargo at risk.
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The fact that people are cowering to someone who got handled by a 4 year old telling him to ‘shut the fuck up’ and ‘you’re fired’ and asserted his dominance by boogering his desk is weird to me.
February 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The fact that people are cowering to someone who got handled by a 4 year old telling him to ‘shut the fuck up’ and ‘you’re fired’ and asserted his dominance by boogering his desk is weird to me.
If you work(ed) in a DEI space & want a place for dialogue & community, sign up for Intragroup, a virtual group meeting space with Sherard Robbins, founder of Visceral Change. www.visceralchange.org/intragroup
February 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If you work(ed) in a DEI space & want a place for dialogue & community, sign up for Intragroup, a virtual group meeting space with Sherard Robbins, founder of Visceral Change. www.visceralchange.org/intragroup
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It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
February 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
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Anything they want, hide it or mislabel it. Anything they plug in, unplug it. Remove light bulbs. Move cubicles around so they hide some of the doors and when they leave the room move them again so they hide different doors. Play really loud music. Think like a cat and sabo tabby yourself a mess
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Anything they want, hide it or mislabel it. Anything they plug in, unplug it. Remove light bulbs. Move cubicles around so they hide some of the doors and when they leave the room move them again so they hide different doors. Play really loud music. Think like a cat and sabo tabby yourself a mess
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
In this episode, teens talk about the joys of banter between friends, complicated family interactions & how music connects us regardless of the decade. We, like Bill Konigsberg, hope everyone finds love in a beautiful way.
#lgbtqia+ #BookSky @worldsofwords.bsky.social
#lgbtqia+ #BookSky @worldsofwords.bsky.social
WOW Reads: S3, E3 - TRAP Reads Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg
Podcast Episode · WOW Reads · 01/23/2025 · 24m
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February 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
In this episode, teens talk about the joys of banter between friends, complicated family interactions & how music connects us regardless of the decade. We, like Bill Konigsberg, hope everyone finds love in a beautiful way.
#lgbtqia+ #BookSky @worldsofwords.bsky.social
#lgbtqia+ #BookSky @worldsofwords.bsky.social
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Just saying.
February 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Just saying.
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Sorry boss, I was unproductive this afternoon because there's a sneaky little coup, and the US economy is about to drive off a cliff. That staff newsletter will just have to be a Monday problem.
January 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Sorry boss, I was unproductive this afternoon because there's a sneaky little coup, and the US economy is about to drive off a cliff. That staff newsletter will just have to be a Monday problem.