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Saturday, June 07, 2014

Martha Stackhouse's review of Barbara Joosse's MAMA DO YOU LOVE ME

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In the spring of 2004, students in Education 493: Examining Alaska Children's Literature. The course was taught by Esther A. Ilutsik for...
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Friday, June 06, 2014

Rubbing noses in Katherine Kirkpatrick's BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

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Katherine Kirkpatrick's Between Two Worlds is another fail from Random House, a major publisher. Published in 2014, it is getting good r...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

About the much celebrated Oregon Trail...

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A couple of weeks ago, Oregon's ban on same sex marriage was struck down. I was happy about that. In my timeline on Twitter, I saw this ...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

"War whoop" in Gayle Forman's IF I STAY

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One of the big names right now is Gayle Forman. Her book, If I Stay , is big and gonna be a movie, too. So--I figured I ought to take a look...
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Monday, June 02, 2014

AICL Stands With We Need Diverse Books and Small Publishers

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Saturday morning (May 31, 2014) I woke early with a feeling of joy and excitement. Several hundred miles away from me, a group of eight men ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

WHERE'S WALDO being added to The Foul Among the Good

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Last week, Sharon H. Chang tweeted a couple of images from a 1987 copy of Where's Waldo (by Martin Handford, published by Little, Brown)...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

COPPER MAGIC by Julia Mary Gibson, or, an emphatic "Cut it out!" from AICL

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In Copper Magic , twelve-year-old Violet Blake is digging by a stream near her house in Michigan and finds a "talisman" -- a coppe...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Arigon Starr's SUPER INDIAN

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If you're Kickapoo author/illustrator Arigon Starr, you gotta be dancing every time you pick up Super Indian and read what Charlie Hill,...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

SWEETEST KULU by Celina Kalluk

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Sweet! Sometimes, that exclamation (Sweet!) means something is endearing, and sometimes, it means something is way cool. Both meanings apply...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Dear First Book: Step Up Your Game!

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Editor's note, May 22, 2014: In response to concerns I raised about the information on First Book's Native American Heritage Month p...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

San Jose State University, College of Applied Sciences, School of Library and Information Science, recognizes Debbie Reese for Exemplary efforts to enhance equity and diversity

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" According to her nomination form, she was the recipient of the 2013 Virginia Matthews Scholarship Award for her “sustained inv...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Another 'thank you' to Cynthia Leitich Smith

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A few hours ago, my daughter called to tell me she'd finished her last exam of the semester. With joy and enthusiasm, she said she was f...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Why I Advocate for Books by Native Writers and Illustrators/Gallery of Native Writers and Illustrators

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Editor's Note: Scroll down to see the photo gallery of Native writers and illustrators. I spent an hour today in a twitter chat hoste...
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