Building Internationally Literate Communities

Abstract

How can we as librarians bring children and books from a variety of cultures and backgrounds together to create a more internationally literate community? This workshop addresses that question with a discussion of what it means to be internationally literate as well as internationally-minded, followed by an outline of some evaluation criteria useful in selecting international children's literature. Examples will be offered of what a school library network can do to promote wider reading of literature from around the world. All supporting materials, including booklists, for this workshop can be found online (after 30/09/10) at Kids Global Read website.