Global Read Webinar Series

Once a month in the spring, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Children’s Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award) sponsor a 60-minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards. Each webinar features a presentation by an award-winning author with discussion on how to incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. 

All sessions are free and open to the public.

2026 Global Read Webinar with author Jordan Ifueko

Thursday February 12th, 2026, 7 PM – 8PM ET.

Registration to be posted soon!

Award-winning author Jordan Ifueko will discuss her latest book, The Maid and the Crocodile, which won the 2025 Children’s Africana Book Award for best chapter book.

Register here

Past Global Read Webinars featuring Children’s Africana Book Award winning authors

2025 Global Read with Lesley Younge

 

2024 Global Read with Rimma Onoseta

 

2021 Global Read with Adrienne Wright

 

2020 Global Read with Elizabeth Zunon

2019 Global Read with Arushi Raina

2018 Global Read with Meja Mwangi

Check out the list of all World Area Book Award winners over time.

Sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, the Middle East Outreach Council, and African Studies  Outreach Council, The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.