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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

AWESIINYENSAG, Wiigwaas Press, and the Minnesota's Best Read for 2011

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This is terrific news! Awesiinyensag , a book published by Heid and Louise Erdrich's Wiigwaas Press, was selected as Minnesota's B...
Monday, September 05, 2011

Julie Luecke on Nora Raleigh Baskin's THE SUMMER BEFORE BOYS

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Julie Luecke, an Associate Professor of Education at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, wrote to tell me about Nora Raleigh Baskin...
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

Gertrude Doederlein's LIVING WITH OUR CHILDREN

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Scarlett wrote to tell me about a blog post at Awful Library Books in which Holly Hibler (the blogger) wrote about Gertrude Doederlein'...
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Mercer Meyer's JUST ME AND MY MOM

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Bummer! (Using that word dates me, eh?!) Susan Santee-Buenger at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire wrote to tell me about this page i...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

New book! GRANDPA'S GIRLS by Nicola Campbell

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One of my favorite authors, Nicola Campbell, has a new book out. Titled Grandpa's Girls , I can't wait to see it! Here's the blu...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

CADDIE WOODLAWN... in Chinese

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Thanks, Minjie, for writing to tell me that Caddie Woodlawn is being published in China. Here's the cover: Regular readers of Americ...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

News about Richard Van Camp's THE LESSER BLESSED

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Great news! Richard Van Camp's acclaimed The Lesser Blessed is now available on Kindle .  A couple of years ago, I included his novel...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

New Beginnings and a Million Page Visits

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Earlier this week I began coursework in San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science . Most of you know I'v...
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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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