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Picture Books from Brazil: Bilingual Storytimes

April 26, 2026 at 2 - 3:30 pm

Reading Library

Free with Museum admission

Enjoy Brazilian picture books and music.

Join the Spanish and Portuguese Studies program at UMass Amherst for bilingual English and Portuguese storytimes featuring Brazilian picture books, and Brazilian music from the band BR413.

Schedule

2:00pm: Bilingual Storytime featuring Chupim, by Itamar Vieira Junior, with illustrations by Manuela Navas

2:30pm: Brazilian music by BR413

3:00pm: Bilingual Storytime featuring Contradança, by Roger Mello (featured in CLICK!)

Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UMass

Who You'll Meet

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

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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