Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: I first came to know Cherie Dimaline’s writing last year, when I read “Legends are Made, Not Born” in Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An LGBT and Two-Spirit Sci Fi Anthology. The character she writes about in that story is named Auntie […]
Creekfinding: A True Story
Review Source: Kirkus Book Author: Bulldozed years earlier and filled to make a cornfield, a lost creek is found and restored on an Iowa farm. When Michael Osterholm learned that a creek had once run under his farmland, he determined to restore it. Following old photographs and using heavy machinery to uncover the original bed […]
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
Reviewed by Deborah Menkart Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: The collage illustrations in The Mangrove Tree are stunning — each page invites the reader to take in the creativity and details created through the multicolored, textured cloth. The story itself is an important one, describing a community that was once ecologically devastated and poverty-stricken […]
Passion for Elephants: The Real Life Adventure of Field Scientist Cynthia Moss
Reviewed by Brenda Randolph Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: The setting for this picture book is generic “Africa,” a place “Many people might be afraid to go…all alone.” Cynthia Moss an American scientist from Ossinging, New York “was not afraid of the BIG continent.” She settled in “the wide-open savannahs of East Africa” and […]
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