Tucson Festival of Books

Jeanne Gilliam Fain (she/her/hers)


Jeanne Gilliam Fain is a professor in the College of Education and Director of Multilingual Learners/ELL and Literacy Programs at Lipscomb University. She studies critical conversations around global texts with multilingual learners and their families in school partnerships.


Scheduled events:
Reading the World: Exciting New Global Books
Explore the most recent global and international award-winning books that invite K-8 readers to read the world. The presenters share the most recent award-winning books for the 2024 Notable Books for a Global Society and the Batchelder Award Books for best translated books.

Education Room 333: Parent Educator (Seats 44, Wheelchair accessible)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sat, Mar 9, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Children
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Jeanne Gilliam Fain, HeeYoung Kim, Ruth McKoy Lowery
Moderator: Kathryn J. Chavez
Bold Hearts: Tales of Courage and Resistance
When facing difficult situations, children need courage and a bold heart to engage in resistance to create change. Sayantani DasGupta's Secrets of the Sky series is set in a fantasy world dealing with climate change, while Dan Gemeinhart's "The Midnight Children" is a realistic fiction novel that involves a mystery of six runaway children, and Jennifer Nielson focuses on Polish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust in "Uprising."

Education Room 353 (Seats 92, Wheelchair accessible)  View this venue on the Festival map
Sun, Mar 10, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Children
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)  View this venue on the Festival map

Panelists: Sayantani DasGupta, Dan Gemeinhart, Jennifer A. Nielsen
Moderator: Jeanne Gilliam Fain