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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

AICL Cringes: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS is the all-time best selling Newbery Medal winning book.

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Editor's Note: On 2/24/2014, I inserted "AICL Cringes" to the initial title of this post, to clarify how I feel about ISLAND b...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Native authors at Tucson Festival of Books

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The Tucson Festival of Books is coming up next month (March). If you're going (I wish I was!!!), check out this panel: Destiny & ...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

BUFFALO BIRD GIRL: A HIDATSA STORY, by S.D. Nelson

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The subject of most biographies of Native women are Pocahontas and Sacajawea. I did a search of the Comprehensive Children's Literature...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Dear John Segal, author of PIRATES DON'T TAKE BATHS

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On AICL, there's a page of " the foul among the good " that catalogs books in which Native people are stereotyped, objectified...
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DANCES WITH WOLVES: A STORY FOR CHILDREN

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Last night (Feb 21, 2013), I joined a Readers Advisory chat on Twitter. Held every first and third Thursday evening at 8:00 PM Eastern Time,...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

LITTLE YOU, written by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Julie Flett

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Richard Van Camp has another terrific book out... I've written before about his board books, his picture books, and his young adult nove...

Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's WHEN I WAS EIGHT

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The most powerful stories are those that pull you in such that you feel the emotions of the character(s) in the story and when you come to t...
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Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without American Indians

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On May 3rd and 4th, 2013, the Newberry Library in Chicago will host a seminar titled "Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without Ame...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Naomi Bishop: Publishing and Diversity

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Editor's Note: Today's blog post is by Naomi Bishop. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in ...
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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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