If you happen to be in Columbus this coming weekend (July 11-12 between 10 a.m. And 4 p.m.), be sure to stop by the Columbus Book Festival in Topiary Park!
Each year the Columbus Book Festival attracts 30,000-40,000 visitors and this year, OSU's community-engage program Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture children's heritage books series in collaboration with the Bexley Public Library has its own tent! Look for us in Tent #73!
Over the last two years, with wide-ranging co-sponsorships from Bexley Public Library, Bexley Women’s Club, Ohio State’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement, Office Academic Affairs, Humanities Institute, Center for Languages Literatures and Cultures, OSU Libraries, Center for Ethnic Studies, and Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes “Archival Imaginations,” the Bigger Than Me series produced 16 books written by children and their families:
The Dynamic Duo and the Journey Through the Past by Helene Claire Afia Osei
Это Family שֶׁלִי Etah Family Sheli This is My Family by Sam Gorelik
The Hidden Time Door: Abe and the Desert of the Past الباب الخفي عبر الزمن ; آبي وصحراء الماض by Abe Alhashimi
Chasing the Ball, Finding Ghana by Jude Osei
Becoming Jayden: It's Bigger Than Me by Jayden A. M. Jones
All the Sparkles That Made Me by Jurnee Miller
The Stories that Live in Me by Mira Wells
Because of You by Lila Wells
Leaves of Legacy by Edward Fahey
sky سماء by Jacob Alhashimi
A Portrait of Me by Maya Letostak
My Shabbat Table by Kayla Gorelik
Mighty Mattox Saves the Day by Mattox Burrell
Generations of Samuel/Les générations de Samuel by Samuel Arner
The Hidden Time Door : Abe and the City of the Future بوابة الزمن الخفية: آبي ومدينة المستقبل by Abe Alhashimi
Getting Ready for Losar by Yangsi Thurston
The Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture program uses alternative pedagogies to equip participants with interdisciplinary research methods that empower children ages 7-14 and their families to tell their personal stories within broader family and cultural histories.