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Showing posts with label not recommended. Show all posts
Showing posts with label not recommended. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2024

Not recommended: KOKOPELLI'S FLUTE by Will Hobbs

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Years ago, someone asked me about  Kokopelli's Flute by Will Hobbs. It wasn't the first ask but it is on my mind lately. I can't...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Not Recommended: STORIES CALIFORNIA INDIANS TOLD by Anne B. Fisher

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Several readers have asked me about Stories California Indians Told by Anne B. Fisher, illustrated by Ruth Robbins. It came out in 1957 from...
Monday, July 08, 2024

NOT RECOMMENDED: BACK IN THE BEFORETIME. TALES OF THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS by Jane Louise Curry

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A reader wrote to ask if I've read Back in the Beforetime: Tales of the California Indians by Jane Louise Curry.  The answer? I had not,...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

NOT RECOMMENDED: Lois Duncan's STRANGER WITH MY FACE

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I begin with a sample of the book covers for Duncan's  Stranger With My Face , overlaid with the red X that I use to signal that a book ...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

NOT RECOMMENDED: "California Native American Tribes" series by Mary Null Boulé

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If your library has a copy of one of the 26 books in the "California Native American Tribes" book series, get it off the shelf. Le...
Monday, March 06, 2023

Debbie--have you seen SWIFT ARROW by Josephine Cunnington Edwards?

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Some time back, a reader wrote to ask if I had read Swift Arrow by Josephine Cunnington Edwards. It was published in 1997 by a publisher I w...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Not Recommended: The Little Indian Runner

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Yikes! You know how you get a request and think you'll take care of it 'tomorrow' and then suddenly, time has passed and it sits...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Nostalgia for Margaret Wise Brown's DOCTOR SQUASH THE DOLL DOCTOR

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Yesterday (Monday, Jan 17, 2023) this image appeared on the timeline of my Facebook account. Specifically, it was shared to a Facebook group...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

"Never fear," said Gramps. "My great, great grandmother was one quarter Native Bear and I am ready to share."

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This morning on Twitter, I saw a tweet that included a photo of a page from a Berenstain Bears book. The person who shared it characterized ...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Not Recommended: BAREFOOT BOY by Gloria D. Miklowitz and Jim Collins

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Barefoot Boy by Gloria D. Miklowitz, illustrated by Jim Collins, came out in Follett's "Beginning to Read" series in 1964. A r...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

Debbie Reese responds to Kent Nerburn

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Dear Kent Nerburn,  On April 13th, the  MinnPost ran an interview that Jim Walsh did with me. In it, Walsh asked me what I find most bother...
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