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Friday, April 22, 2011

Are your kids going to Summer Camp?

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Today's post is prompted by Nicole, a reader who wrote to tell me about an article called Boys Gone Wild in baystateparent: Massachuset...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Top Board Books for the Youngest Readers

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Update on Oct 17, 2022: We add to this list, first posted in 2011. If you have additional recommendations, let us know in a comment and we...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Jacques Duquesne's OUKALA LE PETIT INDIEN (Oukala the Little Indian)

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Cover, propped up on laptop Yesterday at the local library book sale, I picked up Oukala le Petit Indien by Jacques Duquesne, illustrat...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Audio archive of "An Indigenous Scholar's Use of Social Media"

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On Wednesday (two days ago) I gave a lecture at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. It was cospon...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Free lecture: An Indigenous Scholar's Use of Social Media

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On Wednesday at 3:00 4:00, I'll be giving a lecture at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illi...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Better Book Titles new title for INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD

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Better Book Titles. The site is new (to me) and interesting...  Its description is "This blog is for people who do not have thousands ...
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Update on Berenstain Bears Give Thanks

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Last week I published an excellent letter from Kim , a reader who wrote to tell me about The Berenstain Bears Give Thanks . I ordered a co...
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Saturday, April 09, 2011

Did you see... PaperTigers post about Larry Loyie's books?

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Larry Loyie's As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer before Residential School is on my list of recommended books . It is nice to se...

Do you read CYNSATIONS? And have you read JINGLE DANCER?

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Yesterday I was at Urbana Free Library (my local library) and was happy to see Cynthia Leitich Smith's new novel, Blessed, on the TE...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Unexpected intersections: Thanksgiving and Karen Russell's SWAMPLANDIA!

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Earlier this week a reader wrote to ask me about Karen Russell's Swamplandia! Not familiar with it, I read reviews and learned that it ...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

2011 New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference

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On April 26th I'll head home (yeah!) for the 2011 New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference . It will be in Albuquerque. I'm...
Monday, April 04, 2011

A reader writes to me about Jon Scieszka's TRUCKSGIVING

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Amongst the email I received this morning is one from Danielle, who wrote to ask if I'd seen Jon Scieszka's Trucksgiving .  While at...
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Letter from reader about THE BERENSTAIN BEARS GIVE THANKS in which the Bears fatten up Squanto (their turkey)

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Last week, Kim in Canada wrote to me... ------------- Hi Debbie, Here's another book to add to your poison pile of inappropriate,...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Dear Mr. Goble: Questions for Paul Goble about THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES

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Paul Goble's The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses was published in 1978. It won the prestigious Caldecott Medal. Due to the popularity of h...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Nodelman on WHERE THE GREAT HAWK FLIES

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In 2007, I published Beverly Slapin's review of Liza Ketchum's Where the Great Hawk Flies . Today I'm pointing you to Perry Nod...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

"Multiracial" identity and American Indians

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The US Census released 2010 demographic data a few days ago. Among the data being pointed to in articles and essays is that "...America...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

"Settler ponies" and buffaloes in MY LITTLE PONY (new TV series)

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I did not know that there is a new My Little Pony television show being aired...  I watched a segment today, prompted to do so by reader, ...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Peter Sieruta on Laura Adams Armer's WATERLESS MOUNTAIN

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Peter Sieruta publishes the blog, Collecting Children's Books . On Friday, March 25, 2011, he wrote about Laura Adams Armer's Waterl...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

"Wounded Bird" in RANGO, and a note about Johnny Depp playing Tonto

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Several people have written to ask me if I've seen Rango. I haven't, but I just came across a critique of the character, Wounded B...
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News on Scholastic's "Dear America" series

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Are you a fan of the Dear America series of historical fiction diaries published by Scholastic? Many of the students in my classes at the ...
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