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Roger Mello, Illustration for Contradança (Companhia das Letrinhas). Collection of Roger Mello. © 2011 Roger Mello.

CLICK! Bilingual Storytimes

For Families
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Reading Library

Free with admission

Join the Spanish & Portuguese Studies program at UMass for bilingual storytimes featuring books from the exhibition CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books.

Who You'll Meet
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Spanish & Portuguese Studies at UMass: Community, Storytelling, and Translation

A collaboration between the Spanish and Portuguese Studies program and The Carle, Tal Goldfajn’s Community, Storytelling, and Translation course seeks to strengthen community by celebrating linguistic diversity. Trained in The Carle’s Whole Book Approach, students are exploring how to use picture books to engage children in bilingual storytelling.
Spanish & Portuguese Studies at UMass
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Pipa Project

The Pipa Project is an initiative that promotes picture books in translation and is part of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UMass.
Pipa Project
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Tal Goldfajn

Tal Goldfajn is a linguist, translator and translation scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies department. Together with her students at UMass Amherst she founded the Pipa Project initiative for the promotion of translated children’s literature and multilingual storytelling.

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Current Exhibition

CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books

January 17 - June 7, 2026
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Event

Picture Books from Brazil: Bilingual Storytime

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Enjoy this special bilingual storytime in English and Portuguese.