Multilingual May Storytime Series

For Families
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Reading Library
Free with Museum admission

Join students from Tal Goldfajn’s Community, Storytelling, and Translation course at UMass-Amherst for this special series of interactive bilingual storytimes in Arabic, English, Mandarin, Quechua, and Spanish.

 

Multilingual May Storytime Schedule

 

May 3 at 11 am: Spanish and English

Little Owl Lost / Un poco perdido, by Chris Haughton

 

May 3 at 2 pm: Spanish and English

Kapow!, by George O’Connor

 

May 4 at 1 pm: Spanish and English

Señorita Mariposa, by Ben Gundersheimer and illustrated by Almada Rivera

 

May 4 at 2 pm: Spanish and English

Where the Wild Things Are / Donde viven los monstruos, by Maurice Sendak

 

May 6 at 11 am: Spanish and English

I Need a Hug / Necesito un abrazo, by Aaron Blabey

 

May 6 at 12:30 pm: Spanish and English

The Book of Questions / El libro de las preguntas, by Pablo Neruda and illustrated by Paloma Valdivia

 

May 6 at 2 pm: Spanish and English 

The Snowy Day / Un día de nieve, by Ezra Jack Keats

 

May 7 at 12:15 pm: Quechua and English

Atuqmantawan Mallkumantawa / The Fox and the Condor, traditional Tejido weaving from Bolivia 

 

May 7 at 1 pm: Arabic and English

What Shall We Play Now?, by Taghreed A. Najjar and illustrated by Charlotte Shama

 

May 7 at 2 pm: Spanish and English

Goodnight Moon / Buenas noches, luna, by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd

 

May 10 at 11 am: Spanish and English

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie / Si le das una galletita a un ratón, by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Patricia Bond

 

May 10 at 2 pm: Spanish and English

The Story of Ferdinand / El Cuento de Ferdinando, by Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson

 

May 11 at 11 am: Spanish and English

Pete The Cat: I Love My White Shoes / Pete el Gato: encanto mis zapatos blancos, by Eric Litwin and illustrated by James Dean

 

May 13 at 11 am: Spanish and English

My Papi Has a Motorcycle / Mi papi tiene una moto, by Isabel Quintero and illustrated by Zeke Peña

 

May 13 at 12:30 pm: Spanish and English

Let’s Go To San Juan / Vámonos a San Juan, by Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein, illustrated by Ana Godinez

 

May 13 at 2 pm: Mandarin and English

Summer, by Cao Wenxuan and illustrated by Yu Rong

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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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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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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.
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