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Friday, March 13, 2015

Open Letter to David Arnold, author of MOSQUITOLAND

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Friday, March 13, 2015 Dear Mr. Arnold, Thank you for responding to my critique of the "Cherokee" content in Mosquitoland.   ...
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Saturday, March 07, 2015

David Arnold's Cherokee protagonist in MOSQUITOLAND

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Note: Please scroll down to see David Arnold's response to this review. See Open Letter , too, which also has a response from David Ar...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

Seed beads, Indian Camps, and Black Indians in Cynthia Leitich Smith's RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME

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A request for a blurb about a favorite book with a Native teen character prompted me to re-read Cynthia Leitich Smith's Rain Is Not My...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

CAMP CREEPY (NANCY DREW AND THE CLUE CREW) by Carolyn Keene and Macky Pamintuan

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A teacher wrote to me, asking for books about Taos Pueblo. I know about Clark's Little Boy With Three Names but haven't read it yet,...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

A BOOK OF AMERICANS by Rosemary Benet and Stephen Vincent Benet

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Woah! That is my thought as I sat down to share some photos of pages from Rosemary Benet and Stephen Vincent Benet's A Book of America...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Books Not Yet Read/Reviewed at AICL

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With this post, I'm pointing to a list of books I started on Google Drive. It is an effort to keep track of all that is out there, by Na...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Pamela Penza's review of Tricia Stirling's WHEN MY HEART WAS WICKED

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Last year, Pamela Penza wrote to me about Nick Lake's There Will Be Lies . Pam is a young adult librarian and blogs at Pamelibrarian . I...

Some context for "Are we doing it white" at Read Roger

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I participated in the "Are we doing it white?" conversation at Read Roger (Roger Sutton's blog at Horn Book; Sutton is the ex...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

CCBC Statistics for 2014: Books by/about American Indians

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Today (Feb 18, 2015), the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, released stati...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Going to Hawaii Association of School Librarians Spring Conference!

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Dear HASL Librarians, I am looking forward to spending time with you at your spring conference! I've been working on my remarks. If ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Stereotypes in Wilder's THE LONG WINTER

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Earlier today, I saw a post on Facebook in which a person said, of Wilder's The Long Winter , "this is the only book that can put w...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY, by Adam Rex

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Note on 2/20/2015: Children's literature scholar Perry Nodelman submitted comments that I am inserting in the body of this post, below t...
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