The Worlds of Words Center has a collection of 40,000 books for children and young adults, but it offers much more than that.
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star There are good reasons the Worlds of Words Center at the University of Arizona is popularly known as “WOW,” and the acronym is only one of them.
Most visibly, it is a collection of 40,000 books. Look closer, and you see they are all written for children and young adults … and they introduce children from all over the world. Kits are available from Mexico, Peru, Chile, Korea, China, Somalia, Kenya, Nepal and the Middle East. These boxes are intended for grades second through eighth, but WOW also has picture book boxes for ages 4-5.One of WOW’s newer programs is called “Imagination Fridays,” a series co-sponsored by the Tucson Festival of Books. Authors and illustrators are featured in online presentations that are available free on the center’s website.
“It’s a fascinating story,” Short said. “During the Chinese Exclusion Act and for a time after that, Chinese people couldn’t come to this country unless they had a parent already living here. So for the right fee, someone would attest that a Chinese child was theirs … whether it was true or not … and give the government specific information about their past. The children would be tested on these points, and if they failed the test they were shipped back home.
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