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El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Día) is an international celebration of youth, cultures, languages and literacies. Día provides young people with meaningful, life-changing experiences with books, famous authors/poets/storytellers, the opportunity to tell their own stories and connect to the ASU experience.
Since 2011, we have been hosting Día on the ASU Tempe campus. At our inaugural celebration we welcomed 200 students to campus for a morning of books and storytelling. Each year our celebration has grown, winning the 2013 Raul and Estele Mora Award for the best Día event across the country. Last year, our event reached capacity, and we had to turn away kids, but we are working to make sure that this does not happen again.
On May 2, 2016, 625 middle and high school students from throughout Arizona will visit the ASU Tempe Campus for our 6th annual Día celebration. René Saldaña, author of A Good Long Way, winner of the 2011 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, and Isabel Quintero, author Gabi a Girl in Pieces, winner of the ALA's William C. Morris Award, will provide keynote addresses and a host of Young Adult (YA) authors will be presenting hands-on interactive literacy workshops. All students will receive a free book written by our featured keynote authors.
Your contribution will help provide a life-changing literacy experience to hundreds of young people.
A donation of this amount could cover the honorarium of one local author.
A donation of this amount represents a dollar for every student that will be attending the event.
A donation of this amount could cover the cost of travel expenses for both keynote authors.
