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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Better Book Titles new title for INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD

Better Book Titles. The site is new (to me) and interesting...  Its description is
"This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through the cryptic crap and give you the mat of the story in one condensed image...."  
The blog archive reaches back to July 2010. There are Better Book Titles for a handful of children's and young adult books. To the right you see the Better Book Title for Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks, posted on April 5th, 2011.

For those of you who object to obscenity, you best not look at the site. For those of you who enjoy bawdy and edge humor, you can see thumbnails of the entire set here.

Relocation---for those who did not learn about it in school---was a federal government policy where the goal was assimilation that would also result in the weakening of tribal identity and thereby the ultimate demise of Native Nations.

The creator of the Better Title suggests that putting Indians under the full control of children, where the child has power over the life and death of an Indian by putting (relocating) that Indian in a cupboard, is worse than the actual Relocation policy.
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2 comments:

  1. Beverly SlapinMonday, April 11, 2011 at 10:36:00 AM CDT

    I also liked Mark Twain's THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN retitled as ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS IS BLACK.

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  2. AnonymousSunday, April 24, 2011 at 1:42:00 PM CDT

    You'll probably also appreciate this one: http://betterbooktitles.com/post/1691806537/thanksgiving

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