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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Debbie Reese's Open Letter Regarding USBBY's 2017 "Indigenous Experience" Panel in Seattle

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Eds. note at 9:00 CST on July 27th, 2017, Therese Bigelow, USBBY's Board President, announced that Nancy Bo Flood would not be on the pa...
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Naomi Bishop's Open Letter Regarding the "Indigenous Experience" Panel at USBBY's 2017 Regional Conference

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Eds. note on Jul 25, 2017: For context on this post, see the extensive conversation on USBBY's Facebook page .  Eds. note: At 9:00 ...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Recommended: LOLA LEVINE AND THE VACATION DREAM by Monica Brown; GHOSTS IN THE CASTLE by Zetta Elliott

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Yesterday (July 21, 2017), I did some work with teachers on evaluating materials about Native peoples. In the Q&A, someone asked if ther...
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Recommended: YOU HOLD ME UP by Monique Gray Smith

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Due out in October of 2017 is Monique Gray Smith's You Hold Me Up. Published by Orca, it is a picture book about ways that people can h...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Not recommended: TWISTED TRUE TALES FROM SCIENCE: MEDICAL MAYHEM

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This morning, I read Elisa Gall's review of Medical Mayhem , a book in the "Twisted True Tales from Science" series published ...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

First look at PURITAN GIRL, MOHAWK GIRL by John Demos

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John Demos has a book coming out in October of 2017 from Amulet Books (an imprint of Abrams). Some of you who read history books may recogni...
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Debbie--have you seen BLACK SHEEP WHITE CROW by Jim Kristofic?

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A reader writes to ask if I've seen Jim Kristofic's Black Sheep, White Crow . Published in 2017 by the University of New Mexico ...
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Saturday, July 08, 2017

Debbie--have you seen THE QUEST FOR Z: THE TRUE STORY OF EXPLORER PERCY FAWCETT AND A LOST CITY IN THE AMAZON by Greg Pizzoli?

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A teacher wrote to ask if I've seen The Quest for Z: The True Story of Explorer Percy Fawcett and a Lost City in the Amazon  by Greg Piz...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2017

A Native Perspective on the Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse

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Eds. note: American Indians in Children's Literature is pleased to share this open letter about the upcoming total solar eclipse ....
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Debbie, have you seen JUAN PABLO AND THE BUTTERFLIES by JJ Flowers?

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Eds. note: August 10, 2017--see excerpts of Beverly Slapin's review .  **** Today, a reader asked me about Juan Pablo and the Butte...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Max of WHERE THE WILD THINGS--as a Native kid

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People in children's literature are familiar with Where the Wild Things Are , by Maurice Sendak. I read it to kids many times. I'l...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Debbie--have you seen BLOWBACK '07 by Brian Meehl?

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A reader writes to ask if I've seen Blowback '07 by Brian Meehl. I haven't but will look for it. Here's the description: ...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Highly Recommended: Cherie Dimaline's THE MARROW THIEVES

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I first came to know Cherie Dimaline's writing last year, when I read "Legends are Made, Not Born" in  Love Beyond Body, Spa...
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Monday, June 05, 2017

Doris Seale, 1936-2017

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Back in the early 1990s when I started graduate school, I learned of the work of a Santee, Cree, Abenaki woman named Doris Seale. I read her...
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