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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

10th Anniversary of RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME

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Click over to Cynsations and read Cynthia Leitich Smith's reflections on Rain is Not My Indian Name . A gorgeous cover that I love to l...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Tim Tingle, ALA 2011

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On Sunday at ALA 2011, I went by the Cinco Puntos booth, hoping Tim Tingle might be there. He was scheduled for a session at 4:00 to talk...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

ROBOPOCALYPSE by Daniel H. Wilson

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A friend wrote to me yesterday to tell me about Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse . I looked it up and am blown away by the story a...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

ALVIN HO: ALLERGIC TO BIRTHDAY PARTIES, SCIENCE PROJECTS, AND OTHER MAN-MADE CATASTROPHES

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Editor's Note: My critique of Alvin Ho was posted on Saturday, June 18th, 2011. I let the author know about the critique. She responded....
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

"Chief Read Heap Much"

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I'm doing some research on Caldecott Medal books that include images of American Indians. Today I'm looking at The Rooster Crows: A ...
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Playing Indian, and, THE LOST ONES: LONG JOURNEY HOME (documentary)

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Periodically I have conversations with someone who is determined to figure out how to justify playing Indian. I understand the impetus. Movi...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Amazon deleted my review of Killen's NOT ME!

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***Update, 2:41 PM CST, June 14th. Please visit Killen's blog . She and I are talking with each other there about the book, Amazon, next...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

DAUGHTER OF WINTER by Pat Lowery Collins

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Daughter of Winter by Pat Lowery Collins is one of those books that a lot of people write to me about. I ordered a copy from the Urbana F...
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Nicola Killen's NOT ME!

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This morning, friend and colleague Thomas Crisp pointed me to Nicola Killen's Not Me! One look at the cover, and you know why he wro...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

WORSE THAN ROTTEN, RALPH by Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel

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As I move out of my campus office, I'm finding books I've meant to write about... Did you read Worse than Rotten, Ralph (1978) by ...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Australian cover for ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN

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Editors Note on Feb 25, 2018: Please see my  apology  about promoting Alexie's work. --Debbie This is the Australian cover for She...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Dang...

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Nothing quite like starting a new novel and running into 'native as in born here, not savage' on the first page. The book is What ...
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Teen-created cover for Alexie's PART-TIME INDIAN

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Editors Note on Feb 25, 2018: Please see my  apology  about promoting Alexie's work. --Debbie On the yalsa-bk listserv, a librarian in...
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"Others: 31%"

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The New York Times has an interactive mapping feature called Mapping America available where you can "Browse local data from the Cens...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

A Right to Justice: Native Youth Theater Play about Police Brutality

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Photo credit: Charla Bear, KPLU, Seattle The young people in this photograph are Native actors in A Right to Justice , a play being don...
Friday, June 03, 2011

TRIBES OF NATIVE AMERICA - series

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This morning a librarian in New Jersey wrote to ask about the Tribes of Native America series published n 2002 by Blackbirch Press. I don...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Tim Tingle and Matt Dembicki at ALA

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Tim Tingle, enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma , and author of some of my favorite picture books , and Matt Dembicki will be...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Very happy personal news

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Lack of posts to AICL are because I was at the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale for a week doing research, and after that...   I was at...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Who is this guy?

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This is the second time in the last couple of weeks that I have seen this photograph. I first saw it in December of 2010 on the cover of Bre...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

YA Poetry CD: Moccasins and Microphones

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On July 9, 2009 I pointed to the Spoken Word Team from Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS). At the time, they were scheduled to perform a...