What a delight this morning (July 5, 2025) to see art by Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) on the cover of the July/August 2025 The Horn Book Magazine! As I study the cover, I see a Cherokee child, reading for a book about a Cherokee family. A rare book, in fact. I think it is the only book written and illustrated by two women of the same Native Nation.
Kunz's work has layers of meaning and I thoroughly enjoyed reading her Caldecott Medal Acceptance speech. Read it, and get the book she illustrated, Chooch Helped. Written by Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation), it is heartwarming, delightful, poignant, fun... and I hope the two women collaborate again. Chooch Helped is such a special book!
Kunz's work has layers of meaning and I thoroughly enjoyed reading her Caldecott Medal Acceptance speech. Read it, and get the book she illustrated, Chooch Helped. Written by Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation), it is heartwarming, delightful, poignant, fun... and I hope the two women collaborate again. Chooch Helped is such a special book!
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