The UC Davis School of Education’s annual Words Take Wing event
is a celebration of children’s literature as art. The focus is on
the diversity of stories and characters found in works by authors
from different cultures who explore and create settings that
reflect a wide range of perspectives and world views.
Sutter Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, is the
School of Education’s Co-Sponsor of Words Take Wing: Honoring
Diversity in Children’s Literature.
The following donors made the 2013 program possible:
Organizations
Sutter Children’s Center, Sacramento
UC Davis Children’s Hospital
Raley’s
Woodland Sunrise Rotary Club
Individuals
Jamal Abedi & Fereshteh Hejri
Joanne & Michael Banducci
Delee & Gerry Beavers
Judith Blum
Shannon Cannon
Kim & Eugene Cole
Michele Leonard-Fortes
Ken Gelatt & Sandi Redenbach
Paul Heckman & Viki Montera
Donna & Mark Justice
Anna & Dennis Kato
Floyd and Ruthie Shimomura
Margarita Engle, the 2013 featured author in the School’s annual
Words Take Wing children’s literature lecture series, is the
focus of this article by
Jeff Hudson of the Davis Enterprise. Engle will speak on
campus on Tuesday, February 12. Tickets are still available for
the evening lecture.
It’s so easy to help a teacher and her class attend Words Take
Wing.
For just $650, you can support a class of thirty attend the
Words Take Wing: Honoring Diversity in Children’s
Literature Presentation by Margarita Engle at UC Davis on
February 12, 2013. Many teachers are finding it difficult to pay
for field trips. Generous supporters in the past have sponsored
elementary classrooms filled with children who have never met an
author and many who have never visited a college campus.
If you are interested in helping to support a teacher’s ability
to bring students to UC Davis for this once-in-a-lifetime
experience, please contact Adrienne Capps at
adcapps@ucdavis.edu.
Beginning in 2005, the School of Education’s children’s lecture
series has presented eight highly regarded authors. Each author
represents a different worldview–from Chinese-American history
and myth, to African-American porch stories, to novels about
Chicano identity and emigration, to retellings of well-known
fairy tales from around the world.
