The Wish Prince Project / Teachers / Students and Parents / Rotary Clubs / Donors / About the Author
Bringing The Wish Prince Project to fruition has taken time, talent and treasure. Would you like an opportunity to help fund this unique literacy project and life-changing effort? Please contact Beaverton Rotarians Maureen Wheeler, 503-888-3717 or Doug Taylor, 503-421-5329 for more information about how you can get involved.
About the Project
The Wish Prince is a project of the Rotary Club of Beaverton. It brings The Wish Prince bilingual (Spanish/English) book to third grade students within the Beaverton School District. The book is artfully designed in bilingual form and features colorful graphics and English and Spanish rhyming text. School assemblies are coordinated with school leaders to distribute the books for free. This is a charity project in service to children and building literacy in partnership with the Beaverton Rotary Foundation.
The book’s purpose is to help students learn to set goals by following five simple daily steps to develop the mindset and skills to achieve their goals and live their dreams. Secondary objectives are to support reading and to aid the transition from Spanish to English.
Janet Chvatal is the principal creative contributor to the Wish Prince Project. Janet received her elementary and secondary education in the Beaverton School District, trained in opera at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and studied opera at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna through winning a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship. Janet has participated in many charitable activities in the Beaverton area and with the Rotary Club of Beaverton.
The Wish Prince Project carries on from prior Wish Prince activities in the Beaverton School District and in Germany. The Wish Prince was first written in German and has been presented to 4,000 students in Germany. In 2019, an English language edition of The Wish Prince was produced, and with the aid of members of the Rotary Club of Beaverton, more than 500 copies have been given out to students in Beaverton schools. This effort was supported by the late Howard Hedinger, a Portland philanthropist.
The artful presentation is designed to capture the students’ interest, engage parents and families to become involved in helping their child remember and use five simple daily steps described in the book. In addition, there will be supplemental materials available to teachers, parents and others on The Wish Prince website including free drawing downloads, songs, and additional methods and ideas to accompany the tools offered in the book.