Back in 2006, I posted Beverly Slapin's comparison of Ruth Bornstein's Indian Bunny and her Brave Bunny. I'm expanding on it a bit today by adding photographs I took of the cover and one inside page. Here's the cover:
Note how that bunny is playing the drum with his hands? That is not an accurate depiction of how Native peoples in the U.S. play the drum. It is accurate, however, if the bunny is Hawaiian. He isn't. He's just a bunny playing Indian. Later in the book he's inside a tipi. Here's the page where he decides what he's going to do:
Want to know what all he'll do? Go read Slapin's review.
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Saturday, April 04, 2015
Following up: Ruth Bornstein's INDIAN BUNNY
Labels:
Indian Bunny,
not recommended,
Pub year: 1973,
Ruth Bornstein
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