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Saturday, August 06, 2011

Playing Indian and Catherine Bateson's BEING BEE

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A reader of AICL wrote to tell me that the main character in Catherine Bateson's Being Bee plays Indian at one point in the novel. On p...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"Buffalo Dusk" by Carl Sandburg

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Some years back, I came across "Buffalo Dusk" by Carl Sandburg. The poem is in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children: A T...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

AICL reader on McClure's THE WILDER LIFE

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Editor's Note: Today's post is by a Teacher Librarian, NW of Chicago. She writes: I have spent a long time pondering your comme...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

CHICKADEE, Erdrich's next book in BIRCHBARK HOUSE series

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Back in May, Louise Erdrich blogged about Chickadee , the next book in the Birchbark House series. In it, Erdrich writes, Omakayas and her f...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

"Indians in the House" episode of LHOP TV show---deleted or not?!

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Many of you may know that I've written about the "Indians in the House" scene of Little House on the Prairie. I don't thi...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Anita Silvey recommends LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS

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Yesterday (July 10, 2011) at "Children's Book-A-Day Almanac," Anita Silvey featured Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in...
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Friday, July 08, 2011

Recommended! RETHINKING POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA

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Rethinking Schools is an excellent source of materials for anyone who looks critically at schooling. Their newest item is Rethinking Popu...
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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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