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...
BUFFALO BIRD GIRL: A HIDATSA STORY, by S.D. Nelson
The subject of most biographies of Native women are Pocahontas and Sacajawea. I did a search of the Comprehensive Children's Literature ...
Dear John Segal, author of PIRATES DON'T TAKE BATHS
On AICL, there's a page of " the foul among the good " that catalogs books in which Native people are stereotyped, objectified...
DANCES WITH WOLVES: A STORY FOR CHILDREN
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,...
LITTLE YOU, written by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Julie Flett
Richard Van Camp has another terrific book out... I've written before about his board books, his picture books, and his young adult nove...
