Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Written for young adults, Poisoned Water gives a harrowing account of the Flint water crisis. The disaster that unfolded wasn’t something that happened just with the turn of a switch from the Detroit water supply to the contaminated Flint River. This was 100 years […]
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Dr. Darcie Little Badger has two stories in Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance. In the final pages of the book you can read a little about her. I follow her on Twitter (@ShiningComic) and it has been terrific reading her tweets as […]
Race to the Sun
Reviewed by Michael Thompson Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: When Rebecca Roanhorse published her dystopian fantasy novel Trail of Lightning, I wrote at length about my grave concerns for her appropriation and distortions of Dine’ cultural narratives. I noted, as a Native educator and a Navajo in-law, that numerous Navajo writers were voicing […]
Spotted Tail
Reviewed by Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Nineteenth-century Sicangu Lakota leader Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska) is the subject of a new biography for middle grades, by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Spotted Tail, Reycraft Books, 2019). Spotted Tail was highly influential, but is generally less well-known than other Plains leaders […]
King Shaka
Reviewed by Fatima Barnes Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: The graphic novels – Shaka Rising and the sequel, King Shaka – are imaginative, engaging, and innovative ways of narrating the legend of Shaka, the most renowned 19th century monarch in Southern Africa. Comic book writer-illustrator Luke Molver, a South African born in Durban, does an excellent job of telling […]
Shaka Rising
Reviewed by Fatima Barnes Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: The graphic novels – Shaka Rising and the sequel, King Shaka – are imaginative, engaging, and innovative ways of narrating the legend of Shaka, the most renowned 19th century monarch in Southern Africa. Comic book writer-illustrator Luke Molver, a South African born in Durban, does an excellent job of telling […]
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