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

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...

Native authors at Tucson Festival of Books

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

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

On AICL, there's a page of " the foul among the good " that catalogs books in which Native people are stereotyped, objectified...

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,...

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

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...

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...

Editor's Note: Today's blog post is by Naomi Bishop. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in 2010. ...

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...

Upon learning that Champaign Public Library's 110 Books for Every Child included books with blackface and that stereotype American India...

The people who established International Book Giving Day asked me to recommend books for their book giving project. Their post with recommen...