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Friday, November 13, 2009

First response: HOUSE OF NIGHT SERIES

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For some time now, I've been aware of the HOUSE OF NIGHT series of vampire stories. I picked one up in a bookstore and skimmed it, but p...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Erdrich does THRILLER

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On Louise Erdrich's blog is a video of Erdrich, staff of her store, and people in the neighborhood, doing Jackson's zombie dance. Fu...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Indians in Daugherty's DANIEL BOONE

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Peter D. Sieruta's blog is called Collecting Children's Books. I read it from time to time. Today, I read "The Mural in the Gym...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

Back from Madison, and, Sewell Illustrations in LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE

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Yesterday afternoon I was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Janice Rice. We were there at the invitation of Ryan Comfort of the Am...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Analysis: PETER PAN IN SCARLET

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After spending the last 24 hours re-reading and making notes on Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet , I feel a bit like the cha...
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Notes and Summary: PETER PAN IN SCARLET

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Back when Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet (nearly everytime I type the words "Peter Pan" I have to fix a typo......
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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Edit(s) to 1935 edition of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE?

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While doing research on Syd Hoff's Danny and the Dinosaur , I came across information about a revision to Laura Ingalls Wilder's L...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

George Littlechild's THIS LAND IS MY LAND

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Among my favorite books is George Littlechild's This Land Is My Land , published in 1993 by Children's Book Press. Written and il...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Has Stephanie Meyer read this?

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I do not recall seeing "Please read Indian Country Etiquette " on the Quileute Nation website last time I was on there...  Clickin...
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"Evolution" video

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Have you seen the video that shows a girl being made-up, photographed, and then the photograph retouched for use in an advertisement?  It...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving

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Available in a pdf from the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving . Ten pages in len...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Who is John Smelcer (author of THE TRAP and THE GREAT DEATH)

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John Smelcer, author of The Trap , has a new young adult novel out ( The Great Death ). Many believe he is a good writer. That may be the ca...
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News about Nicola Campbell's SHI-SHI-ETKO

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Nicola Campbell's picture book, Shi-shi-etko , was recently released as a short film. Here's the trailer. As soon as I have info on...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Ann Rinaldi's LEIGH ANN'S CIVIL WAR

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Last week I made some preliminary notes about Ann Rinaldi’s Leigh Ann’s Civil War. I’ve finished reading the book and am sharing some thoug...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Joy Harjo

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Joy Harjo was our Artist in Residence this semester. We (faculty, staff, students of UIUC's Native American House and American Indian...
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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Trying to catch up! Watching: Richard Peck, Ann Rinaldi, and John Smelcer

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Lot of action of late... My last post was about Richard Peck's new book A Season of Gifts . I've got more to say, but not suffici...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Richard Peck's A SEASON OF GIFTS

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I've had a flurry of email of late, asking if I've read Richard Peck's new book, A Season of Gifts . For my readers outside of c...
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