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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Public Lecture: Native American Misrepresentation in Books and Media

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What are you doing on March 6, 2013, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time? If you're near Cal State Polytechnic University in Pomona, consider attend...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

THE STUPIDS STEP OUT; THE STUPIDS HAVE A BALL; GEORGE AND MARTHA, ENCORE

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Upon learning that Champaign Public Library's 110 Books for Every Child included books with blackface and that stereotype American India...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

International Book Giving Day

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The people who established International Book Giving Day asked me to recommend books for their book giving project. Their post with recommen...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Open Letter to Champaign Public Library Regarding "110 Books for Every Child"

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February 6, 2013 Dear Librarians at Champaign Public Library, While reading The News Gazette yesterday, I read that you had prepared a l...
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Monday, February 04, 2013

The True Book of Little Eskimos

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Have you ever visited the blog, Awful Library Books: Hoarding is not Collection Development ? Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner are public librari...

Julia Alvarez's RETURN TO SENDER

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Yesterday, I started reading Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender . I'm taking a minute this morning to say a couple of things about i...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Herman Parish's AMELIA BEDELIA TALKS TURKEY

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Over at the Greenwillow blog, there's a post about it being Amelia Bedelia's 50th birthday. Here's the tweet that sent me there...
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A Peek at American Indians in Children's Fiction Published from 1955-1965

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Nancy Larrick's article,  The All White World of Children's Book , was published in 1965. I wondered what I might find if I did a se...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

GIRL MEETS BOY, edited by Kelly Milner Halls

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Update on Sep 30 2023: I (Debbie Reese) no longer recommend Bruchac's work. For details see  Is Joseph Bruchac truly Abenaki? In the clo...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Playing Indian - Vintage Valentine's Day Cards

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Over at BuzzFeed, Leonora Epstein posted 15 Unbelievably Racist Valentine's Day Cards . I'm sharing two of them in this post. Before...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures: The Mount Rushmore Calamity

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In 1964, Jeff Brown introduced readers to a character named Flat Stanley: Flat Stanley's name is actually Stanley Lambchop, but a ...
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