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Thursday, December 05, 2019

Not Recommended: ENCOUNTER by Brittany Luby and Michaela Goade

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Several months ago, we received a copy of Brittany Luby and Michaela Goade's Encounter. It came out in October of 2019 from one of the...
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Monday, December 02, 2019

IGLOO FARM becomes SNOWY FARM

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Snowy Farm by Calvin Shaw, with illustrations by Oamul Lu, was published by Simon and Schuster on November 5, 2019. Before it was Snowy Farm...
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Sunday, December 01, 2019

Recommended: "Chubby City Indian" by Jana Schmieding in THE (OTHER) F WORD: A CELEBRATION OF THE FAT AND FIERCE, edited b Angie Manfredi

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Jana Schmeiding is Lakota. She does comedy shows and hosts the Woman of Size podcast . Her essay, "Chubby City Indian" is in Angie...

Recommended: "Ballad of Weary Daughters"

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It's hard to authentically tell stories from the POV of children and youth trying to keep family and self together in the face of parent...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Not Recommended: THE SACRIFICE by Diane Matcheck

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A reader wrote to ask if we've seen The Sacrifice by Diane Matcheck. It was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan). ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Mark this day... there's a Native Imprint from a Major Publisher!

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Way back when I started graduate school in the mid 1990s, I wanted to see so much more being published by Native writers... and here...
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Recommended: The Case of the Missing Auntie

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  How often have you read a middle grade mystery novel that had you in tears just a few pages after making you laugh? That's what happen...

Recommended! THE RELUCTANT STORYTELLER by Art Coulson; illustrated by Hvresse Christie Blair Tiger

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Note from Debbie on Nov 28, 2023: Due to my concerns over Art Coulson's claim of being Cherokee , I am no longer recommending his books....
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Recommended: JOHNNY'S PHEASANT written by Cheryl Minnema, pictures by Julie Flett

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Johnny's Pheasant is written by Cheryl Minnema (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) and illustrated by Julie Flett (Cree-Métis). New in 2019, it ...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Dear _____: I got your letter about Thanksgiving

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Today's blog post has an unusual title. It is my effort to reply, in one response, to the range of queries I get by email. These are ema...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

Recommended! STRANGELANDS written by Magdalene Visaggio and Darcie Little Badger; art by Guillermo Sanna; Cover by Dan Panosian

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Native teens! Go to the Humanoids site and get copies of the comic series, Strangelands. They're written by Magdalene Visaggio and Darc...
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Thursday, November 07, 2019

Not Recommended: SQUANTO'S JOURNEY: THE STORY OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

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One of the questions I (Debbie) get around this time of the year is whether or not I recommend Joseph Bruchac's picture book,  Squ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Thoughts on Patricia MacLachlan's THE HUNDRED-YEAR BARN (and my conclusion: Not Recommended)

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On October 8, 2019, a reader wrote to ask me if I had seen Patricia MacLaughlan's The Hundred-Year Barn. Published by HarperCollins an...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Highly Recommended: FRY BREAD: A NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILY STORY

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Update from Debbie, Oct 26, 2019: Unfortunately, the endpapers include some state recognized groups (I won't call them tribes or nations...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

A First Look at Roanhorse's RACE TO THE SUN

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In July of 2019, I received an ARC (advanced reader copy) of Rebecca Roanhorse's Race to the Sun. I did a short twitter thread as I loo...
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